Lee graduated from TVB's Artist Training Academy in 1982 and was from the same batch as Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and Francis Ng.
Since then Lee has made appearances in several films, including A Chinese Ghost Story II (1990), To Be Number One (1991), Powerful Four (1992).
That year, he starred in To Where He Belongs, a television series produced by TVB's rival ATV.
Lee was first married to a fellow Hong Kong actress Angela Fong Hiu-hung, after which they moved to Toronto, Canada where they have a son Jasper in 1994.
In 2010 Lee married a mainland Chinese actress Wang Yaqi (王雅琦), who is of Hui descent.