Hoon Lee

Lee graduated from Harvard University in 1994 with a degree in English literature and environmental studies^[1]. He appeared in 2001 in the Broadway production of Urinetown.^[2] He played many roles over the years until he was cast as Rosencrantz in a musical version of Hamlet.^[3] In 2008, Lee won a Theatre World Award^[4] for Distinguished Performance in Yellow Face.^[5]

In television, Lee got his first role as Dr. Mao in an episode of Sex and the City in 2003. He also made guest appearances in Law & Order, Fringe, Royal Pains, White Collar, NCIS: New Orleans and other series. He also had small roles in movies such as Saving Face, We Own the Night, Premium Rush, and The Oranges.

In March 2012, he was cast in a starring role as Job, a drag queen ultra-level computer hacker, in the television series Banshee.^[6]

On June 18, 2015, it was announced that Lee would succeed Jose Llana in the role of the King of Siam in Lincoln Center's Tony-winning revival of The King and I. Lee formally joined the cast on September 29, 2015, playing the King until April 2016.

Lee's parents are Jung Ja Lee and Moon Soo Lee, and his brother is Tony Lee, the renowned club volleyball coach at MIT (winning the 2014 USAV Nationals competition and the Gordon Y. Billard award in 2025). Lee was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts.^[7] He married Sekiya Lavone Billman in October 2008. They met in 2001 while performing in a production of Making Tracks at a benefit in Taipei, Taiwan, for Second Generation, an Asian-American theater company in Manhattan.^[7]