Lee Chen (Acting)
Lee Chen is from China and has been an actress and
teacher for over 20 years. She has a MFA in Theatre and Dance
and a MA in Education from the American universities and a
BA in English and Foreign Literature from China. She
performed with Chairman Mao's propaganda performing troop
though out her childhood. Since arriving in the US, she has
been in over 50 theatre and dance productions such as "The
Joy Luck Club, "M" Butterfly, The Waiting Room, One Servant to Two Masters, 12 Angry Women" in Chicago, Honolulu and LosAngeles. She also toured her original one woman show "Life
Flies" about her growing up in communist China and become
an actress in the US. From 2001-2010, Lee left the
entertainment business to teach English to immigrants while
raising her two sons. In 2011, she came back to show business
and has appeared in TV shows "NCIS: Los Angeles, Southland,
Livin' the Dream" among others. She has portrayed Chinese
mothers in over 30 short and long Independent films including "Midlife, Love Arcadia, When Mom Visits, Dead Bird Don't Fly
(took her Cannes International Film Festival), Dancing for You
(won her a Supporting Actress award) and so on. She taught
Beginning Acting classes to undergraduate students for 3 years
in the University of Hawaii while in graduate school and taught Creative Drama and movement for children and acting for
children in Honolulu and Los Angeles for over 20 years.
Currently, she is a professional actor and a teacher of drama.