Jessica Lee (actress)

Lee is of Korean heritage.^[1] Lee attended the BRIT School.^[2] She joined the National Youth Music Theatre. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Musical Theatre from the Arts Educational School (ArtsEd) in 2018.^[3][4]

Upon graduating from ArtsEd, Lee made her West End debut when she joined the company of Les Misérables at the Queen's Theatre. She also served as 1st cover Éponine.^[4] This was followed by further roles understudying the Mistress in Jamie Lloyd's Evita at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre,^[5] in High Fidelity at the Turbine Theatre,^[6] and understudying Tzipporah in The Prince of Egypt at the Dominion Theatre.^[7] For Christmas 2020, Lee played Dandini in the socially distanced Nottingham Playhouse pantomime of Cinderella.^[8]

After the COVID-19 lockdown, Lee featured in concerts for Children of Eden in 2021^[9] and Chess in 2022.^[10] She made her television and feature film debuts with a guest appearance in an episode of the BBC One medical soap opera Casualty and a minor role in the Disney sequel film Disenchanted.

In 2023, Lee starred as Kim opposite Joanna Ampil in Miss Saigon at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield^[11][12] and took over the role of Misa Amane from Frances Mayli McCann in Death Note: The Musical in concert when the production transferred from the London Palladium to the Lyric Theatre.^[13][14] For her performance in the former, Lee won Best Performer at The Stage Debut Awards.^[15] Lee also appeared in episodes of the Amazon Prime series The Power and the Disney+ series The Full Monty.^[16]

The following year, Lee portrayed Annabeth Chase in the London production of The Lightning Thief musical adaptation at The Other Palace Theatre alongside Max Harwood and Scott Folan.^[17][18]