Moon Lee

Biography

Moon Lee was born in 1965 in Hong Kong and lived with her father in Kaohsiung, Taiwan from ages 6 to 12, where she mastered Chinese and developed skills in dance and piano. After returning to Hong Kong, she attended various schools including Chu Hai Middle School and Buddhist Kwok Kwong College. She was discovered at age 15 by director Xiao Xianhui during a school dance performance, leading to her television debut in the series "Earth and Mercy: Home in the Pearl River" where she played a village girl named "A Man". Her film career began with "New Sword of the Shu Mountain" and she became one of Hong Kong's leading action film stars during the 1980s and 1990s. In 1983, after graduating from high school, she signed contracts with ATS television and Golden Harvest film company. She chose the English name "Moon" because it resembles the Cantonese pronunciation of her Chinese name "A Man". In the late 1990s, she gradually withdrew from the film world and dedicated herself to promoting dance art and establishing the "Moon Lee Dance Studio", whose students achieved outstanding results in Hong Kong's open competitions.