Lela Lee

Lela Lee was born in Los Angeles and raised in Southern California. She got the acting bug her freshman year at U.C. Berkeley when she was cast as the lead in a play. After that, she double majored in Drama and Rhetoric but ultimately graduated with a Rhetoric degree. Fresh out of college, she was cast in two ground-breaking East Asian American independent films, "Yellow" by Chris Chan Lee and "Shopping for Fangs" by Quentin Lee and Justin Lin. Other notable appearances are; her recurring role as "Bonnie" a surgical intern on "Scrubs" and as series regular "Jodi Chang" on the Sci-fi series "Tremors." She was also cast in the pilots "5 Houses" and "Times Square" which never aired on television. In between her acting in television, independent films, and various commercials, Lela works on her own writing projects and scripts. She is most known for her comic strip and books by the title "Angry Little Girls" based on her first character the "Angry Little Asian Girl" which she created her sophomore year in college. The "Angry Little Asian Girl" or "ALAG" was first a short video titled "Angry Little Asian Girl-The First Day of School." After she made it, she was embarrassed by its candor, so she hid it in her drawer for four years before she finally dusted it off and added four more episodes. She sent it out to festivals and surprisingly, critics gave the collected shorts glowing reviews. On a whim, Lela made a batch of 300 t-shirts and sold out by word of mouth. She now draws the Angry Little Asian Girl as a character appearing in the syndicated weekly "Angry Little Girls" comic strip.