Alice Lee

Lee's professional career kicked off in 2009 with a role on the long-running CBS soap opera As the World Turns (Wikipedia) — not a glamorous entry point, but a working one, and the kind of credit that teaches you more about sustained performance than almost anything else. She'd already done Broadway by then, having appeared in the 2008 revival of Spring Awakening and the notoriously turbulent Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark (Wikipedia). Hard to say if that chaos was useful preparation or just chaos. The Off-Broadway run of Heathers: The Musical in 2014 was a genuine turning point. Lee originated the role of Heather Duke — the most brittle, status-obsessed member of the Heathers trio — and the production developed a cult following that still runs hot online (Wikipedia). It's the kind of role that sticks to a performer's identity in the best possible way. From there, her screen work accelerated: the short film Bigfoot's Love Slave in 2017, then two Netflix features in back-to-back years. Her Mackenzie in Sierra Burgess Is a Loser (2018) was a supporting role, but Gretchen in Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019) — a film that earned strong reviews on the festival circuit before its Amazon release — showed a different register, something more grounded and lived-in. Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist (2020–2021) gave Lee her most sustained television platform to date. As Emily Kang, she was part of the main ensemble across both seasons, holding her own in a show that required its cast to sing and perform choreography on short notice, episode after episode (Wikipedia). The series ran on NBC before moving to the Peacock streaming platform. Since 2023, she's been voicing Lois Lane in My Adventures with Superman — an animated series that's drawn comparisons to the best DC animated work of the 1990s — and her recent film credits include The Union (2024), All That We Love (2024), and People We Meet on Vacation (2026), in which she plays Rachel (Wikipedia). She's also credited as a producer, though the specific projects attached to that credit aren't fully detailed in available sources.