Leo Sheng (born 1996)[1] is a Chinese American actor and activist known for playing Micah Lee on The L Word: Generation Q. Sheng was born in Hunan, China and was adopted and raised in Ypsilanti, Michigan by an American lesbian couple.
[2] Sheng was accepted to the school's social work graduate program and planned to enroll, but left because he was cast in his first professional acting role in Adam.
[1] He is a lead character on Showtime's The L Word: Generation Q as Micah Lee, who is also a trans man.
When he was 11, Sheng watched a clip of a transmasculine character, Max, on the original L Word series and came out as trans shortly after.
[3] Sheng resides in Los Angeles and identifies as a queer trans man.