Kasi Lemmons

Kasi Lemmons is an American film director and actress, most notable for her work on the films Eves Bayou, The Cavemans Valentine and Talk to Me. She was described by film scholar Wheeler Winston Dixon as an ongoing testament to the creative possibilities of film.

Lemmons was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of a poetpsychotherapist mother and a biology teacher father. When Lemmons was eight years old, her parents divorced, and she and her mother and two sisters moved to Newton, Massachusetts. Her mother remarried when she was nine. Her passion for movies came at an early age, but becoming a director was her goal. I wanted to do something more meaningful than going to auditions.

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