His works include Wolf Warrior, The Battle at Lake Changjin, Sniper, Formed Police Unit, and playing a knight in the Netflix series Marco Polo.

[1][2] He gained a degree in IT but decided to study Chinese martial arts in Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang province, China, before moving back to the UK.

[3] Lee says that he met director Wu Jing while renewing his work visa at the Public Security Bureau in the Chinese capital of Beijing.

He went on to star in Wu Jing's Wolf Warrior (2015), the first in the Chinese patriotic Wolf Warrior franchise, and featured in the Stanley Tong film Kung Fu Yoga (2016), starring Jackie Chan, and the Zhang Chong film Super Me (2019).

He is best known for playing Crazy Bull in Wolf Warrior and the American colonel Allan Maclean in The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021).