Hany Lee

Hany Lee (b. April 22, 1993 in Sydney, Australia) is a Korean Australian actress best known for playing the role of Sunny Lee on the popular soap opera, Neighbours.

Background

Lee was born in Sydney and was raised there with her brother by her single mother. She is part Korean as her parents emigrated from there around 1989, before Lee was born. She is fluent in Korean, Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. She joined Sydney Talent Company and began looking into a career as an actress and singer. She is currently learning Italian and would like to study law at some point as well as continuing acting.

Lee has mastered the piano, saxophone, guitar and drums. She is also skilled in jazz, hip-hop and break dancing. Prior to Neighbours, she had small roles in two feature films.

Neighbours

In 2008, Lee entered a competition in conjunction with Dolly magazine to find two new actors for Neighbours. Although Hany Lee won the New South Wales round of the contest, she ultimately lost out to Chelsea Jones, who spent three months playing Tegan Freedman. But, producers were so impressed with Lee that they offered her the regular role of a new exchange student who would be moving in with the Kennedy family, rewriting the role to make the character Korean. Lee resides in Melbourne, where Neighbours is filmed.

On 11 August 2009 Neighbours producers confirmed to Digital Spy that Lee was to leave Neighbours . She finished filming in August 2009 and her final scenes aired in Australia in December 2009 and February 2010 in the UK. The character was not killed off and instead returned to her home country of Korea.

See also

• Koreans