Peter Lee was born in Hong Kong in 1963 and immigrated to the United States in 1974.
There, he attended New York University from 1982 to 1984, studying film.
He played a role in his directorial debut Pushing Hands and then in several of Lee's other projects.
Between 1995 and 1999, Peter Lee worked in Taiwan television.
Lee's 2017 film Love is a Broadway Hit stars Godfrey Gao, Wang Likun, Wang Chuanjun, Li Yuan (李媛) and Naren Weiss.