Geoff Lee(1952-2022)
- Actor
- Producer
- Stunts
American-Asian musician and actor, #americanasianactor, native New Yorker. Geoff's first
musical experience, the local church choir at age 10. Studied
contemporary Afro-American music at SUNY Old Westbury under jazz
professor Makanda McIntryre. His first theater experience was as musical
director for Pan-Asian Repertory@La Mama, Bullet-Headed Birds, directed by Tisha Chang. After college Geoff taught music to teenagers at
Project Reach in Chinatown, NY, but left teaching to answer
the call of the vibrant New York rock music scene, joining The Heat as bassist and composer
for this multiracial rock band was ultimately signed to Polygram Records. The Heat regularly
played Friday and Saturday gigs at clubs such as CBGBs and Max's Kansas City, and also toured England and
Wales. After The Heat, Geoff co-founded another rock band, Fierce
Jones, which also played at CBGBs - this time Geoff was playing guitar.
The acting bug bit hard when Geoff studied drama with Mako (East/West Players, Pacific Overtures) and he took independent classes taught by a member of Actors Studio. In 2017, he attended a master actors class taught by Tzi Ma.
In 2013 he composed/recorded the music score for the short film Tu-Na House, which won a Golden Eagle award in NYC, dir Bea Soong. He is featured as an actor/musician in the films Year of The Dragon and Magic Sticks (German).
Most recently Geoff is seen playing two roles, Knowledge and Liu The Ancient, in the action-comedy feature film Made In Chinatown which premiered at the Newark International Film Festival, 9/2019.
2019 - Geoff played a co-star role with James Spader on The Blacklist.
2018 - In the comedy series Nightcap, Geoff guest starred with Bob Saget.
On The Daily Show (2013) Geoff played the role of Zhi Peng, Jon Stewart's Chinese bandleader.
Geoff worked as a stunt double in Black Rain (dir Ridley Scott) and in The Other Guys (dir Andy McKay) as well doing his own stunts in Taking Manhattan (dir Kirk Wong).
In the award winning feature film The Exquisite Corpse Project (dir Ben Popik), a documentary-comedy, Geoff plays the three combo-characters of Mr. Kim.
Additional: 2019, Geoff is featured in five indie films, "Eugenia and John" , dir Hossein Keshavar, "Paradise City", dir John Marco Lopez, Snakeeater, dir Tori Knos, I Want More, I Want Less by Bryce Richardson and he appears in "The Garden Left Behind", dir Flavio Alves.
In 2014 "Revenge of the Green Dragons" was released and Geoff is featured in the role of Charlie Lo, a gambling house owner. He was honored to work with well-known Hong Kong director Andrew Lau (Infernal Affairs) and co-director Andrew Loo, exec producer Martin Scorsese.
Geoff can also be seen in three web series, "The Streets", "Queering" and "Stills". Additionally, in Spring 2016 he played a featured role the web series, "Mahjongg" (dir Troy Antonio). He also is seen in two music videos by renown Asian rapper China Mac. In 2019,
The acting bug bit hard when Geoff studied drama with Mako (East/West Players, Pacific Overtures) and he took independent classes taught by a member of Actors Studio. In 2017, he attended a master actors class taught by Tzi Ma.
In 2013 he composed/recorded the music score for the short film Tu-Na House, which won a Golden Eagle award in NYC, dir Bea Soong. He is featured as an actor/musician in the films Year of The Dragon and Magic Sticks (German).
Most recently Geoff is seen playing two roles, Knowledge and Liu The Ancient, in the action-comedy feature film Made In Chinatown which premiered at the Newark International Film Festival, 9/2019.
2019 - Geoff played a co-star role with James Spader on The Blacklist.
2018 - In the comedy series Nightcap, Geoff guest starred with Bob Saget.
On The Daily Show (2013) Geoff played the role of Zhi Peng, Jon Stewart's Chinese bandleader.
Geoff worked as a stunt double in Black Rain (dir Ridley Scott) and in The Other Guys (dir Andy McKay) as well doing his own stunts in Taking Manhattan (dir Kirk Wong).
In the award winning feature film The Exquisite Corpse Project (dir Ben Popik), a documentary-comedy, Geoff plays the three combo-characters of Mr. Kim.
Additional: 2019, Geoff is featured in five indie films, "Eugenia and John" , dir Hossein Keshavar, "Paradise City", dir John Marco Lopez, Snakeeater, dir Tori Knos, I Want More, I Want Less by Bryce Richardson and he appears in "The Garden Left Behind", dir Flavio Alves.
In 2014 "Revenge of the Green Dragons" was released and Geoff is featured in the role of Charlie Lo, a gambling house owner. He was honored to work with well-known Hong Kong director Andrew Lau (Infernal Affairs) and co-director Andrew Loo, exec producer Martin Scorsese.
Geoff can also be seen in three web series, "The Streets", "Queering" and "Stills". Additionally, in Spring 2016 he played a featured role the web series, "Mahjongg" (dir Troy Antonio). He also is seen in two music videos by renown Asian rapper China Mac. In 2019,
