Shannon Emery Lee is an American actress, martial artist and businesswoman.
Background
She is the daughter of martial arts film star Bruce Lee and Linda Lee Cadwell, the granddaughter of Cantonese opera singer Lee Hoi-Chuen, and the younger sister of Brandon Lee. Shannon Lee was born on April 19, 1969 as the second child to Bruce Lee and Linda Lee Cadwell and her family lived in Hong Kong from 1971 to 1973, after which her mother moved back to the United States following the death of her father. Shannon grew up in Rolling Hills, California.
Education
Graduating from The Chadwick School in 1987, Lee then attended Tulane University in New Orleans, where she studied voice and graduated in 1991. In her youth, she studied jeet kune do, the martial art system invented by her father, under Richard Bustillo, one of her father"s students.
Career
In 1998 she made her first Hong Kong produced action film Enter the Eagles, directed by Corey Yuen, co-starring Michael Wong and Anita Yuen. On television, she guest-starred in an episode of the television series Martial Law alongside Sammo Hung in 1998 and appeared in the science-fiction television film Epoch, which first aired on the Sciences Fi Channel in 2000. She was also the television host of the first season of WMAC Masters.
Lee is currently the president of the Bruce Lee Foundation.
She sang on the band Medicine"s album The Mechanical Forces of Love in 2003. She sang a cover of "I"m in the Mood for Love" for the movie China Strike Force (2000), which starred Leehom Wang and Aaron Kwok.
She is the executive producer of the 2008 television series The Legend of Bruce Lee, based on her father"s life. She is also an executive producer of the 2009 documentary film, How Bruce Lee Changed the World.