Born in 1976 in Malaysia, Sinje Lee has been passionate about performing and movies since she was a child. When she was in high school, she was discovered by director Sylvia Chang Ai-chia and came to Taiwan to pursue her dreams. She started her career in singing and later moved on to acting in movies and won the New Talent Award at the Berlin Film Festival for her performance in Betelnut Beauty, which was her first leading role in a film.
Read MoreA four-time nominee of the Golden Horse Awards, Lee won Best Actress at both the Golden Horse Awards and the Hong Kong Film Awards for her role in The Eye, a hit Mandarin horror film. Known for her emotionally complex and refined acting, Lee has been invited to take part in big transnational film productions in Asia, including The Thieves and The Garden of Evening Mists. She debuted as a producer for the film, Abang Adik, which was selected for the Golden Horse Film Project Promotion (FPP) and won the FPP Visionary Award. Lee has also toured in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan with over 30 theater performances. In addition to singing and acting, she is also an avid writer. Her first book, Embrace Sinjie, was published in 2002, followed by a children's illustration book and a compilation of her writing and photography.
Her first exhibition, Hum: Sinje Lee Solo Exhibition, was presented in 2011 at the Tina Keng Gallery in Taipei, Taiwan, and she also presented her art at the 2019 Art Expo Malaysia presented at the MATRADE Exhibition and Convention Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
