Danny Lee

Danny Lee works as an Actor and Set Medic in the New York City area Film, TV and Commercial productions. Danny was born "Gee Kit Keung" (pronounced: G, Geat, Kern) in Hong Kong, China. His father was a professional chef and his mother, a seamstress. To this day, Danny cooks his own meals and does his own alterations. Danny immigrated to New York City, at the age of 3, and lived in the Chinatown of New York City. In his early childhood, he attended St Joseph's School in the Village and acted in many of his school's theatrical productions. Acting was something he really enjoyed as a child. His fondest memory of acting in that school was playing the role of Santa Claus in one of the Christmas plays. His mother was there with Roast Pork Noodle Soup, still one of his favorites dishes. In his teens, along with the usual routine of school and part time jobs, Danny extended his acting hobby by producing several Public Access Television shows, one of which had aired 42 episodes and had gathered quite a cult following. Danny said "it was a great feeling to have people on the street say hello because they have seen the show". Danny would also spend several afternoons a week catching new releases at the Cineplex Odeon Theater in the Newport Mall across the Hudson. In college, Danny studied acting in whatever classes was offered at the school, and also took acting classes at HB studios on bank street. Danny's acting hobby was put on the back burner as he, like any other responsible adult, worked the 9-5 life after he was finished with school. One day in 1996, he ran into showbiz while leaving work, he accidentally walked in on the set of Daylight, which was filming in Chinatown, and was rounded up with the rest of the extras because he stopped to chat with a group of nice looking girls that turned out to be movie extras on the street. Danny spent the rest of the day hanging out with the nice people on Daylight, and it left a positive impression. A year later, Al Pacino and Jerry Orbach went to Chinatown to film "Chinese Coffee", and of course Danny was getting out of work and ran into the set. He hung out for a while and was really enjoying everything about the set from the nice people to the free food and drinks. On that set, he met the extras casting director, and was invited to register at their Chinatown office. Danny decided to register. Sometime after that, Danny got a call from the extras casting office to work in a film called "Return to Paradise". It happened to be on his day off from work so he took the gig, It was a very early call and he took a production bus from Chinatown to Philadelphia and shot inside some historic prison made to look like a prison in Malaysia. The day was long, and it was cold, but it was fun. Danny was asked back for two more days on that project and nicely it all happened to be on his days off from the bank. Danny later got bored of working at Citibank and decided to join the Army National Guard because he saw a banner on 24th street saying it is America's best part time job. A week after he returned from the National Guard, Danny got a call from the extras casting. They wanted him to work on the film "The Corruptor", and since Danny was free, he took the gig, He worked a couple of days on that film and realized that he could be happy to pursue showbiz as a career. So from hobby to jobs, and jobs led to other jobs, showbiz work became Danny's full time pursuit, naturally, union membership became a necessary reality and work begets work as they say. Danny, with his background in acting, naturally found acting gigs as well as work as a print model. Danny has since acted in many productions with principal roles in Film, TV and Commercials. Danny has worked along side exciting talent such as Justin Timberlake, Bill Hader and T Sean Shannon, and in commercials for many top companies such as Subway sandwiches, Mercedes Benz, and Verizon wireless. Sometime around 2011, Danny booked some work on "Nurse Jacky" as a Paramedic. This led Danny to eventually become an EMT, which lead to him becoming an EMS instructor, technical advisor for EMS, and then a Set Medic too. Danny has been on the set for over 20 years, He had worked in many positions. Extra work, Acting work, Stand in work, Doubling, PA work and even working Crafty. Danny loves being on set. "The free food can't be beat!"