Kasi Lemmons’ Acting Career Kasi Lemmons is an award-winning and nationally-acclaimed actress, writer, director and filmmaker. Landing her first professional acting job at just 9 years old, Lemmons would go on to attend NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, UCLA and The New School’s film program. In 1983, she crashed an equity audition for a Steppenwolf production of Balm in Gilead, directed by John Malkovich, and received the role of a “drug-crazed, violent lesbian.” She gives this experience credit for
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