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Lee Wilson made her debut as a classical ballet dancer at the age of sixteen in a  command  performance for Prince

 Rainier and Princess Grace in Monte Carlo. She toured Europe with the Hommage au Marquis de Cuevas and was première

 danseuse  of the Bordeaux Opera Ballet. At the age  of eighteen, she joined the Metropolitan  Opera Ballet under the

 direction of Dame Alicia Markova.

Lee left ballet for Broadway when she joined the cast of Hello, Dolly!, starring Betty Grable. She  continued her

Broadway  career with Here’s Where I Belong, How Now Dow  Jones, the Lincoln Center  revival of Oklahoma!, and the original

 Broadway company of  You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, in which  she played Patty. In 1976, she moved to Los  Angeles

 with the original national company of A Chorus Line. 

Lee  received a Clio nomination for the Pepsi “Skywriter” commercial and won the  Communications Collaborative

 Award for the Cleveland Trust commercial “Ballerina.”

 In the 1980s, Lee  returned to Broadway  for the record-breaking  performance of A Chorus  Line, and for the  musical

 Meet Me in St. Louis, for which she received the Gypsy Robe (rebranded as the  Legacy Robe in 2018).

Lee wrote and produced the live-action holiday specials The Elf Who Saved Christmas and The Elf and the Magic Key,

 which  aired domestically on USA Network and have been seen worldwide. She also  wrote and produced the award-

winning television movie, The Miracle of the Cards.

Lee holds a degree in performing arts from St. Mary’s College of California. Her memoir, Rebel on  Pointe: A Memoir of

 Ballet and Broadway, is published by the University Press of Florida.