Orion Lee is a Hong Kong-Australian actor. He was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in the film First Cow (2019).
Orion Lee was born in Hong Kong. He later lived in Malaysia, Australia, New York, San Francisco, Zurich, and London. 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.
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, 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. His performance earned widespread acclaim and several accolades, including Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award nominations.