Moon Lee (Taiwanese actress)

Lee was born on 10 December 1996.^[1] She has two younger sisters,^[2] and was raised by her grandparents.^[3] She attended and graduated from Taipei Municipal Zhongshan Girls High School.^[4] Aspiring to become a fashion designer, Lee enrolled at Shih Chien University to study fashion design.^[5] During her university years, she began working as a model and filming music videos starting in 2017.^[6] After a year at Shih Chien, she reflected on her interests and realized that while she enjoyed art, she did not have a passion for designing on demand or providing services.^[5][7] She then suspended her studies at Shih Chien and moved abroad to study at the University of the Arts London in 2018.^[6][8] There, she pursued a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts, specializing in Sculpture.^[3][9] While in the United Kingdom, she was discovered by a talent scout on Instagram and invited to audition for The Victims' Game.^[6] She completed the casting process via video call and recorded a four-minute performance video in her dormitory.^[10][11] At the age of 19, she suspended her studies and returned to Taiwan after receiving the role.^[5][10]

Lee's early roles before studying abroad in the United Kingdom included starring as Shih Yu-jie, a transferred student trying to fit into an elite school in the 2018 drama series On Children, and as Chou Hsin, a member of the underground reading club in the 2019 horror film Detention.^[5][6] She landed her first leading role as Chiang Hsiao-meng in the 2020 Netflix crime series The Victims' Game.^[12] Her performance was well received,^[13][14] and she earned Best Newcomer in a Television Series in the 55th Golden Bell Awards and a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 2nd Asia Contents Awards.^[15][16] In the same year, she also took on a main role in the romance series Non Reading Club [zh] and a recurring role as Wang Yi-rong in the legal drama series Wacko At Law [zh].^[17][18] Lee starred alongside Austin Lin in the 2021 film Terrorizers,^[19] for which she was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 58th Golden Horse Awards.^[20] She also made cameo appearances in the television series We Best Love and Rainless Love in a Godless Land [zh] that same year.^[21][22]

In 2022, Lee played Hsiang Wei-hsin, the lead character in the novel-adapted romance film My Best Friend's Breakfast,^[23] for which she was nominated for Best New Talent in the 24th Taipei Film Awards.^[24] She secured a main role in the mystery series The Leaking Bookstore [zh],^[25] and appeared as the younger version of Cheryl Yang's character in a cameo in the 2023 comedy series Oh No! Here Comes Trouble.^[26] In 2024, Lee reprised her role as Chiang Hsiao-meng in the second season of The Victims' Game,^[27] for which she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in the 6th Asian Content Awards,^[28] and landed a lead role in the romance film I Am the Secret in Your Heart, starring alongside Tsao Yu-ning and Shou Lo.^[29]