Lee Sinje is a Malaysian film actress and pop singer. She started her career in singing and later moved on to acting in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Malaysia. Lee starred in The Eye, the hit Asian horror film by the Pang Brothers, winning her the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress, Best Actress at the Hong Kong Film Awards and a Hong Kong Golden Bauhinia Awards. She is among the very few Asian artists to be awarded Best Newcomer Awards at the Berlin Film Festival in 2001 for her role in Betelnut Beauty.
Lee has also starred in the films 20 30 40, and Koma. She worked with the Pangs again on Re-cycle, which was screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
Lee is also a visual artist. In her 20s, she began painting in Taiwan to cope emotionally with the loss of her grandmother. Since then, Lee has had several solo exhibitions in Taipei, including Hum, in 2011 at Tina Keng Gallery and Beyond Silence in 2023 at the Liang Gallery. Her first solo exhibtion in Hong Kong was in December 2025, Childtopia at New Street Art Gallery.
