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Her father was a biology teacher and her mom was a counselor and then became a psychologist. [11], In 1997, Lemmons directed the film Eve's Bayou starring Samuel L. Jackson, Lynn Whitfield, Debbi Morgan, Diahann Carroll, and Jurnee Smollett. [14] It was the highest-grossing independent film in 1997. Kasi Lemmons (born Karen Lemmons on February 24, 1961 ) is an American film director and actress, most notable for her work on the films Eve's Bayou, The Caveman's Valentine and Talk to Me. Lemmons was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of a poet/psychotherapist mother and a biology teacher father. Lemmons was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She subsequently co-starred with Virginia Madsen in the horror film Candyman (1992). I have to write scripts, because that's the only way I can write parts that will get a lot of people whom I really want to work with involved. [9] As a young child, she got her first role on TV on a local soap opera called You Got a Right, a courtroom drama.
[5] The film was well-received among critics (currently holding an 80% rate of approval on review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes[13]) and won Lemmons an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature as well as a National Board of Review award for Outstanding Directorial Debut. Kasi Lemmons was born on February 24, 1961 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA as Karen Lemmons. She was also the leader/moderator of the AFI curriculum's core class, Narrative Workshop.[8]. When Lemmons was eight years old, her parents divorced, and she and her mother and two sisters moved to Newton, Massachusetts. In the summer, she attended the Circle in the Square Program, a program where kids who wanted to be professional actors trained, which was part of New York University's School of Drama. Walker, "Interviews: Kasi Lemmons makes powerful debut as director", "Caveman's Valentine - Interview with Kasi Lemmons - Nitrate Online Feature", "Forest Whitaker now attached to star in Kasi Lemmons musical, "The 2019 Black Film Critics Circle (BFCC) Winners", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kasi_Lemmons&oldid=982584754, University of California, Los Angeles alumni, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Theatrical or Television), Outstanding Screenplay (Adapted or Original), Motion Picture, Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Film), Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture (Film), This page was last edited on 9 October 2020, at 01:56. Guest lecturing and speaking engagements include Yale University, Columbia Film School, MIT, UCLA, USC, The Los Angeles Film School and The University of Pristina Film School in Kosovo.
It was a very devastating time and a very frightening time, but it was alive. [15] In 2002 Lemmons conceived and helmed the tribute to Sidney Poitier for the 74th Annual Academy Award show. She eventually left UCLA and enrolled in the film program at the New School for Social Research. She played the first and only black girl who integrated to an all-white school. To convince studios that she could direct Eve's Bayou, she filmed Dr. Hugo, a short film based on a section of the script of Eve's Bayou. They have two children. Karen (Kasi) Lemmons was born into an academic family in St. Louis, Missouri, her father a biology teacher, her mother a counselor who wanted to become a psychologist, which she achieved after divorcing her husband and moving to Newton, Massachusetts to attend Harvard. Her mother remarried when she was nine. It’s inherent. It was alive. They have a son, Henry Hunter (born 1996), and a daughter, Zora (1999).
Movie Directors, Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature, African-American Film Critics Association, Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Her life outside of the movie set and Hollywood has kept her grounded. When she was eight years old, her parents divorced, and she and her mother and two sisters moved to Newton, Massachusetts, because her mom wanted to go to Harvard to get her doctorate in education. [16] For the film Talk to Me (2007 film), Lemmons received the NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture and was named as Best Director by the African-American Film Critics Association. This was the first screenplay that she had written by herself. Lemmons was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of a poet/psychotherapist mother and a biology teacher father. [12] Lemmons had begun to write the screenplay for Eve's Bayou in 1992. [9], In 2007, she directed Talk to Me that was centered around the television personality and activist Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene Jr. that was played by Don Cheadle. Kasi Lemmons was born on February 24, 1961 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA as Karen Lemmons. It starred Academy Award winners Forest Whitaker and Jennifer Hudson, as well as Academy Award nominee Angela Bassett. Her credits include “Harriet,” “Eve’s Bayou” and “Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Lemmons adapted the novel Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles Blow into an opera libretto for the composer Terence Blanchard. We didn’t know what was going to happen. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kasi Lemmons, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. Though she is a Black woman, Lemmons identifies herself as an artist first and foremost in her career. Compared to how he works, she prefers the pressure of working on a set with the actors. Kasi Lemmons (/ˈkeɪsi/;[2] born Karen Lemmons; February 24, 1961) is an American film director and actress.
She performed with the Boston Children's Theater and later attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts but transferred to UCLA to major in history. "[21], Lemmons has worked extensively as a mentor and educator. The couple have four children. Kasi was Vassar College's 2008 Artist in Residence and in the 2010–2011 academic year, Lemmons was the UCLA Regents’ Lecturer in the School of Theater, Film & Television. It was premiered by the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis on 15 June 2019. Her father was a biology teacher and her mom was a counselor and then became a psychologist. Born around 1820 to enslaved parents, Araminta Ross, known as Minty, braved a 100-mile journey north to freedom as a young woman in 1849.
Currently, she is an Associate Arts Professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
"…I don’t wake up every day saying I’m a Black woman because it’s too given, but I wake up every day feeling like an artist and I feel I’m an artist." Her mother remarried when she was nine. Kasi Lemmons (born Karen Lemmons on February 24, 1961) is an American film director and actress, most notable for her work on the films Eve's Bayou, The Caveman's Valentine and Talk to Me. [5] When she was eight years old, her parents divorced, and she and her mother and two sisters moved to Newton, Massachusetts, because her mom wanted to go to Harvard to get her doctorate in education. and U.C.L.A. It’s about a woman who was running a whole lot of her life so action did not have to be imposed. [10] Her acting credits include episodic parts on shows like As the World Turns, Murder, She Wrote, The Cosby Show or ER and films such as Spike Lee's School Daze (1988), Vampire's Kiss (1988), the Academy Award winner for Best Picture The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Candyman (1992), Hard Target (1993), Fear of a Black Hat (1993), Gridlock'd (1997) and 'Til There Was You (1997). For the past 14 years she has been a board member of Film Independent and has contributed to Film Independent's Filmmaker Labs as a speaker and moderator.
She began her career with roles in commercials with McDonald's and Levis, then she moved to the small screen with shows such as 11th Victim (1979) and then moved to the big screen in Spike Lee's School Daze (1988), followed by the comedy Vampire's Kiss (1989), before being cast as Ardelia Mapp in Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Bergman, Anne. [20] Lemmons said to the Los Angeles Times about her research for Harriet: “All the elements of a great adventure film are right there in the Harriet Tubman story. She also continues to serve as an advisor to the Sundance Screenwriter and Filmmaker Labs.
Lemmons says she is primarily an artist: "I don't wake up every day saying I'm a black woman because it's too given, but I wake up every day feeling like an artist and I feel I'm an artist".[22].
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