Acting

Jon-Claire Lee

Jon-Claire Lee is an American-Australian actor, producer, director and writer.

Acting credits

Nim's Island poster
5.9

A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading.

Nim's Island

2008

Muriel's Wedding poster
6.8

Socially awkward Muriel Heslop wants nothing more than to get married. Unfortunately, due to her oppressive politician father, Muriel has never even been on a date. Ostracized by her more socially adept friends, Muriel runs into fellow outcast Rhonda Epinstalk, and the two move from their small Australian town to the big city of Sydney, where Muriel changes her name and begins the arduous task of redesigning her life to match her fantasies.

Muriel's Wedding

1994

Mao’s Last Dancer poster
6.6

At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.

Mao’s Last Dancer

2009

To Spark a Wildfire poster
NR

Three lonely people trying to find solace in each other and mend misunderstandings rooted in trauma, cultural taboos and old regrets.

To Spark a Wildfire

2024

Joh's Jury poster
7.0

Dramatisation of the 1991 perjury trial of former Queensland state Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.

Joh's Jury

1993

Liu Awaiting Spring poster
3.5

A video collage with images evoking what it may mean to be gay in a Chinese family.

Liu Awaiting Spring

1998

All Silent Dogs poster
10.0

A young woman is faced with a choice: give up her ability to transform into a dog or face the familial and societal consequences of keeping it.

All Silent Dogs

2022

Behind the camera