Orion Lee | |
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 Lee at the screening of the film First Cow during the 2020 Berlin Film Festival. | |
| Born | |
| Education | London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2009–present |
Orion Lee is a Hong Kong-born Chinese Australian theatre and film actor.
Orion Lee was born in Hong Kong. He later lived in Malaysia, Australia, New York, San Francisco, Zurich, and London. [1]
Before attending the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and training as an actor, Lee worked in the financial industry as a fund manager. [2] In addition to his career as a film and television actor, Lee has performed at various theatres in Scotland, England and Ireland, including in 2015 at the Swan Theatre of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon in Ben Jonson's Volpone in a production by Trevor Nunn as Mosca, [3] at the National Theatre of Scotland in Edinburgh, the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge and in the West End.
In Kelly Reichardt's drama film First Cow , which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in August 2019, Lee played the lead role of King-Lu.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Macbeth No More | Big Mac | Short film |
| 2012 | Portraits of London | Jonathan | Short film |
| 2012 | Skyfall | Shanghai Barman | |
| 2012 | Formalities | Short film | |
| 2013 | #aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei | Sportsman | Short film |
| 2013 | Happy Birthday Cindy Wei | Michael | Short film |
| 2014 | The Expert | Anderson | series of online short films directed by Lauris Beinerts [4] [5] [6] |
| 2014 | X+Y | Deng Lagoshi | |
| 2014 | Panic | Yi | |
| 2014 | Fury | Tired GI #1 | |
| 2015 | Narcopolis | Mr. Chang | |
| 2015 | M.L.E. | Sebastian | |
| 2016 | The Sea, the God, the Man | Son | Short film |
| 2016 | That Day Comes | Tony Lin Xiao | Short film |
| 2017 | Justice League | Star Labs Scientist | |
| 2017 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi | Canady's First Order Monitor | |
| 2017 | Pov | Michael | Short film |
| 2018 | Dead in a Week or Your Money Back | Lawrence | |
| 2018 | I Am Vengeance | Burke | |
| 2018 | Catacombe | Charlie Yuen | |
| 2018 | Only You | Eddie | |
| 2018 | Pommel | Dad | Short film |
| 2019 | Vanish in Smoke | Ralph | Short film |
| 2019 | First Cow | King-Lu | |
| 2021 | Zack Snyder's Justice League | Star Labs Scientist | |
| 2021 | Followers | Edward Lee | |
| 2022 | Turning Red | Jin (voice) | [7] [8] |
| 2025 | Rosemead | Charles |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Silent Witness | Dr. Oliver Matthews | 2 episodes |
| 2013 | Dates | Tony | 2 episodes |
| 2013 | Run | Andy | Episode: "Ying" |
| 2015 | EastEnders | Obstetrician | 2 episodes |
| 2015 | Critical | Brian Zhao | 6 episodes |
| 2015 | Code of a Killer | Jack Wu | Episode: "Episode 2" |
| 2015 | Tyrant | Ambassador Zhang | 4 episodes |
| 2016 | DCI Banks | Chang Li | 2 episodes |
| 2018 | Strangers | Allen Ma | 2 episodes |
| 2018 | Informer | Jin Weijun | 3 episodes |
| 2019 | Chimerica | Tang Wen Lei | 3 episodes |
| 2019 | Warrior | Po | Episode: "If You're Going to Bow, Bow Low" |
| 2022 | Significant Others | Father Shirley | 2 episodes |
| 2022 | Bump | Karl | 2 episodes |
| 2024 | Rematch | P.C. | 6 episodes |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Battlefleet Gothic: Armada | Tau Air Caste, Tau Water Caste | |
| 2017 | 007 Legends | Mr. Ling, Moonraker Scientist | |
| 2022 | The Pirate Queen | Cheung Po Tsai |