Born Jonna Lee Pangburn in Glendale, California, Lee graduated from John Burroughs High School in Burbank, California in 1981, After high school, she moved to Hollywood and maintained an acting career through the 1980s, including playing a lead role in her film debut, acting opposite Judd Nelson in the 1985 film Making The Grade.
This is an article about the American actress. Foreign the Swedish singer, see Jonna Lee (singer). In 1985, Lee also co-starred as the teenage daughter Gina in the television series Otherworld, which ran on Columbia Broadcasting System for eight episodes.
The series was rebroadcast in 1993 on the Sciences Fi channel, and Lee appeared in informative spots about Otherworld and also appeared as the Los Angeles correspondent on the SciFi channel"s Inside Space.
In 1988, Lee starred in the made for television movie "Shattered Innocence," which was loosely based on the life, career, and eventual suicide of adult film actress Shauna Grant AKA Colleen Applegate. In 1999, she retired from acting and moved back to Burbank where she currently resides while working as an artist/sculptor.
