Orion Lee

Orion Lee is a British theater and film actor .

Life

Before Orion Lee attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and trained as an actor, he worked in the financial industry as a fund manager. Parallel to his career as a film and television actor, Lee had engagements at various theaters in Scotland, England and Ireland, including 2015 at the Swan Theater of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon in Ben Jonsons Volpone in a production by Trevor Nunn in the role of Mosca, at the National Theater of Scotland in Edinburgh, the Abbey Theater, the National Theater of Ireland, the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge and in the West End.

In Kelly Reichardt's drama First Cow , which premiered in August 2019 as part of the Telluride Film Festival , Lee was given the lead role by King-Lu.

Filmography (selection)

• 2014: X + Y
• 2015: Critical (TV series, 6 episodes)
• 2015: Tyrant (TV series, 4 episodes)
• 2015: Narcopolis
• 2015: MLE
• 2018: Vengeance
• 2018: Catacombe
• 2018: Only You
• 2020: First Cow

Theater roles (selection)

• 2009–2010: The Royal Court Theater, Chichester Festival Theater, Headlong / Noel Coward Theater London / Chichester Festival Theater, Minerva Theater ( Enron , in the role of a Senator)
• 2011: The National Theater of Scotland, Edinburgh ( The Wheel )
• 2012: American Repertory Theater, Cambridge ( Wild Swans , in the role of Shou-Yu)
• 2012: The Abbey Theater, Dublin ( Shibari , in the role of Hideo)
• 2015: Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon ( Volpone , in the role of Mosca)

Web links

• Orion Lee in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Orion Lee. In: netflixmovies.com. Retrieved February 29, 2020.
2. ↑ http://www.abouttheartists.com/artists/414922-orion-lee
3. ↑ http://www.allmediascotland.com/media-releases/30654/national-theatre-of-scotland-announce-cast-for-the-world-premiere-of-the-wheel-at-the-edinburgh-festival -frings /