Jason Scott Lee (æ?Žæˆª, pinyin: LÇ? Jié, born November 19, 1966) is an American movie actor.
He was born in Los Angeles, California, but was raised in Hawaii. As a third-generation Chinese American, he is three-quarters Chinese American and one-quarter Hawaiian. In the mid-1990s, he had a few leading roles in feature films. Since that time, he has not broken into the ranks of major stardom, but continues to receive supporting roles. He currently owns the Ulua Theatre, which opened in 2005, where he performed as Pale in the production of "Burn This."
As a non-Caucasian actor with an ambiguous ethnic appearance, he has been called upon to portray various races. He played an Inuit in Map of the Human Heart, when cast as Bruce Lee in Dragon he was portraying a Chinese American man, a Polynesian in Rapa Nui and an Indian in The Jungle Book.
Jason Scott Lee is of no relation to martial arts legend Bruce Lee, whom he portrayed in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story.
He attended high school with Carrie Ann Inaba, of Dancing with the Stars, and dated her briefly.
Jason Scott Lee is among the actors, producers and directors interviewed in the documentary The Slanted Screen (2006), directed by Jeff Adachi, about the representation of Asian and Asian American men in Hollywood.
