[4] Cara Gee was born on July 18, 1983,[2][better source needed][3] in Calgary, Alberta, and was raised in Aurora, Ontario.

[7][8] Gee is primarily known as a stage actress in Toronto, Ontario, where her acting credits have included productions of Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad,[9] Daniel MacIvor's Arigato, Tokyo,[5] Tomson Highway's The Rez Sisters[9] Cliff Cardinal's Stitch,[7] Birdtown and Swanville's 36 Little Plays About Hopeless Girls[7] and Louise Dupré's Tout comme elle.

[7] She made her feature film debut in Empire of Dirt for which she was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award.

In 2014, she starred as one of the lead characters in the Western drama series Strange Empire on CBC Television, for one season until it was cancelled in 2015.

[14] Her indigenous origin has attracted media attention repeatedly around matters of representation of minorities,[15][16] especially with narratives in The Expanse regarding cultural assimilation.