Greta Lee
Birthdate: Mar 7, 1983
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
Greta Lee (birthname: Greta Jiehan Lee) is a much in-demand actor with considerable success on the New York stage (at such venues as Circle in the Square, Music Box Theatre and Lincoln Center Theatre) and in television (in recurring roles on The Morning Show (2021-present), Russian Doll (2019-2022), Chance (2016-2017) and Wayward Pines (2015-2016), making her feature film debut in the Todd Louiso-directed dramedy, Hello I Must Be Going (2012), starring Melanie Lynskey, Christopher Abbott, Blythe Danner and John Rubinstein, premiering at the Sundance Film Festival before a release by Oscilloscope Pictures. Lee had a supporting role in director/story writer/producer Billy Kent’s comedy-drama, Hair Brained (2013), with Brendan Fraser, Alex Wolff, Parker Posey, and Julia Garner, and received a limited release by Vertical Entertainment.
Lee continued in supporting turns with a role in director/writer/producer Theodore Melfi’s comedy-drama, St. Vincent (2014), starring Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy, and Naomi Watts, premiering at the Toronto Film Festival (where it was runner-up for the festival’s People’s Choice Award) and was released to a $55 million return by The Weinstein Company.
Lee had a small voice role in director/writer/producer Noah Baumbach’s While We’re Young (2014), and then Lee had more small roles with Saturday Night Live veterans, such as star/director/writer Chris Rock’s comedy, Top Five (2014), with Rosario Dawson, Gabrielle Union, Cedric the Entertainer, J.B. Smoove, Tracy Morgan, Kevin Hart, Jay Pharoah, Michael Che and Leslie Jones; director/co-writer/producer Tom McCarthy’s comedy-drama, The Cobbler (2014), starring Adam Sandler, Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Ellen Barkin, Melonie Diaz, Dan Stevens, Fritz Weaver, Steve Buscemi and Dustin Hoffman; star/producer Tina Fey’s and writer Paula Pell’s comedy with co-star Amy Poehler, Sisters (2015), with Maya Rudolph, James Brolin, John Cena, John Leguizamo and Dianne Wiest under Jason Moore’s direction, grossing a strong $105 million for Universal Pictures.
Greta Lee was cast by director Jodie Foster for the cast of the crime thriller, Money Monster (2016), starring George Clooney (who also produced), Julia Roberts, Jack O’Connell, Dominic West, Caitriona Balfe, and Giancarlo Esposito, earning a good $93.3 million for Sony Pictures Releasing/TriStar Pictures. Lee landed her first feature starring role in director/writer/producer Laura Terruso’s indie comedy, Fits and Starts (2017), co-starring Wyatt Cenac, Maria Dizzia, Alex Karpovsky, and Sam Seder, and which premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival.
Lee was cast in a major supporting role in director/writer Aaron Katz’s mystery, Gemini (2017), co-starring Lola Kirke and Zoë Kravitz and released by Neon after launching at the South by Southwest Film Festival, and then Lee joined the cast of the Christmas-themed comedy, Pottersville (2017), starring Michael Shannon, Judy Greer, Thomas Lennon, Ron Perlman, Christina Hendricks and Ian McShane under Seth Henriksen’s direction, and released in limited pattern by Echo Bridge.
Lee played support in director/writer/producer Sam Boyd’s romantic drama, In a Relationship (2018), co-starring Emma Roberts, Michael Angarano, Dree Hemingway and Patrick Gibson, and which launched at the Tribeca Film Festival before a Vertical Entertainment release, and Lee followed this project with the voice role as Lyla in writers/producers Phil Lord’s and Christopher Miller’s animated Marvel Comics franchise, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) and Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse (2027), with the voice cast of Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Jason Schwartzman, Daniel Kaluuya and Nicolas Cage, and backed by Sony Pictures Releasing/Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Animation.
Greta Lee had her breakthrough role as co-lead with Teo Yoo in director/writer Celine Song’s acclaimed, Oscar-nominated, South Korean-American feature debut, Past Lives (2023), with John Magaro, Ji-Hye Yoon and Choi Won-young, premiering to rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival, and released in the U.S. by A24 and in South Korea by CJ ENM to a solid $42.7 million gross.
Lee joined lead actor/director/writer/producer Julio Torres, Tilda Swinton, RZA and Isabella Rossellini in the New York City comedy, Problemista (2023), distributed by A24 after launching at the South by Southwest Film Festival, and then Lee took on two voice roles in the Lord Miller Productions/Universal Pictures dog comedy, Strays (2023), with Will Ferrell and Jamie Foxx, grossing a disappointing $36 million.
Lee co-starred with Willem Dafoe in the indie drama Late Fame (2025), adapted from Arthur Schnitzler’s posthumous novella by Samy Burch, with Edmund Donovan and Clark Johnson under Kent Jones’s direction, and which premiered in the Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival. Lee was then cast by director/producer Kathryn Bigelow for the political thriller written by Noah Oppenheim, A House of Dynamite (2025), co-starring Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, and Jason Clarke, premiering in competition at the Venice Film Festival before a theatrical and streaming release by Netflix.
Greta Lee co-starred with Jared Leto (who also was a producer) in the third installment of Disney’s Tron saga, Tron: Ares (2025), with Evan Peters, Jodie Turner-Smith, Hasan Minhaj, Gillian Anderson and Jeff Bridges under Joachim Rønning’s direction, and then Lee stayed in the sci-fi vein in the lead role of director/producer Louis Leterrier’s 11817 (date to be announced), co-starring Wagner Moura, and produced by Peter Chernin’s Chernin Entertainment and 3 Arts Entertainment, and released by Netflix.
Personal life
Greta Lee was born and raised in Los Angeles by her South Korean-born parents. Lee attended and graduated from Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, and then majored in Theatre at Northwestern University. Lee has been married to actor/writer/producer Russ Armstrong since 2014; the couple has two children, Apollo and Raphael.
Greta Lee Movies
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Previous (14)
- 2025 |
Tron: Ares
asEve Kim
A highly sophisticated Program, Ares, is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission.
- 2024 |
Problemista
asDalia
Alejandro is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in NY. As time runs out on his work visa, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast becomes his only hope to stay in the country.
- 2024 |
The Tiger’s Apprentice
asRabbit
Tom Lee, a Chinese-American boy, after the death of his grandmother, has to be apprenticed to the talking tiger Mr. Hu and learn ancient magic to become the new guardian of an ancient phoenix.
- 2023 |
- 2023 |
Past Lives
asNora
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.
- 2018 | In a Relationship
- 2018 |
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
asInteresting Person #2
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Teen Miles Morales becomes the Spider-Man of his universe and must join with five spider-powered individuals from other dimensions to stop a threat for all realities.
- 2018 |
- 2017 | Fits and Starts
- 2017 | Pottersville
- 2015 |
- 2014 |
St. Vincent
asTeller #23
A young boy whose parents have just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic war veteran who lives next door.
- 2013 | Hair Brained
- 2012 | Hello I Must Be Going
Facts About Greta Lee
Fashionista: Greta Lee has appeared in the fashion campaigns for the labels Loewe in 2023 and 2024 and Calvin Klein in 2024.
Greta Plays Herself: Lee portrayed a slightly satirical version of herself in an early episode of Season One of the Emmy-winning Apple TV+ comedy series, The Studio (2025).
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