Hany Lee
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Hany Lee Choi (Korean: 이헤니) is a Korean Australian
actress best known for playing the role of Sunny Lee
on the Australian soap opera, Neighbours
.
, and studied a little Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. She joined the Sydney Talent Company and began looking into a career as an actress and singer. She is currently learning Italian
and would like to study law at some point as well as continuing acting.
Lee has studied the piano, saxophone, guitar and drums.
Lee is currently a Year Twelve
student at Sandringham Senior College
in Melbourne
.
round of the contest, she ultimately lost out to Chelsea Jones, who went on to play Tegan Freedman. However, producers were impressed with Lee and they offered her the regular role of a new exchange student who would be moving in with the Kennedy family, rewriting the role especially for Lee to make the character Korean. Lee resides in Melbourne, where Neighbours is filmed. Prior to Neighbours, she had small roles in two feature films.
On 11 August 2009 Neighbours producers confirmed to Digital Spy
that Lee was to leave the show. She finished filming in August 2009 and her final scenes aired in Australia in December 2009 and February 2010 in the UK.
In September 2011 she will appear at Hisense Arena to take part in the Victorian State Schools Spectacular.
Korean Australian
Korean Australians are people of South Korean descent living in Australia, and identifies him or herself as such.At the 2006 census 150,873 persons resident in Australia identified themselves as being of Korean ancestry, either alone or with another ancestry. 52,760 persons resident in Australia...
actress best known for playing the role of Sunny Lee
Sunny Lee
Sunny Lee is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Hany Lee. She made her first on-screen appearance on 8 April 2009. Sunny was created by executive producer Susan Bower in response to criticism that Neighbours was "too white"...
on the Australian soap opera, Neighbours
Neighbours
Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera first broadcast on the Seven Network on 18 March 1985. It was created by TV executive Reg Watson, who proposed the idea of making a show that focused on realistic stories and portrayed adults and teenagers who talk openly and solve their problems...
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Early and personal life
Lee was born in Sydney, Australia and was raised there with her brother by her single mother. She is of Korean heritage as both her parents emigrated from there around 1989, before Lee was born. She is fluent in KoreanKorean language
Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...
, and studied a little Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. She joined the Sydney Talent Company and began looking into a career as an actress and singer. She is currently learning Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
and would like to study law at some point as well as continuing acting.
Lee has studied the piano, saxophone, guitar and drums.
Lee is currently a Year Twelve
Year Twelve
Year Twelve is an educational year group in schools in many countries including England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. It is sometimes the twelfth year of compulsory education, or alternatively a year of post-compulsory education...
student at Sandringham Senior College
Sandringham College
Sandringham College is a multi campus secondary college located in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria.- Campuses :Sandringham College is made up of the following campuses:...
in Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
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Career
In 2008, Lee entered a competition in conjunction with Dolly magazine to find two new actors for Neighbours. Although Lee won the New South WalesNew South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
round of the contest, she ultimately lost out to Chelsea Jones, who went on to play Tegan Freedman. However, producers were impressed with Lee and they offered her the regular role of a new exchange student who would be moving in with the Kennedy family, rewriting the role especially for Lee to make the character Korean. Lee resides in Melbourne, where Neighbours is filmed. Prior to Neighbours, she had small roles in two feature films.
On 11 August 2009 Neighbours producers confirmed to Digital Spy
Digital Spy
Digital Spy is a British entertainment and media news website. According to Alexa Internet traffic statistics, as of February 2011, Digital Spy is the 93rd most popular website in the United Kingdom, with an overall Alexa ranking of 2,088....
that Lee was to leave the show. She finished filming in August 2009 and her final scenes aired in Australia in December 2009 and February 2010 in the UK.
In September 2011 she will appear at Hisense Arena to take part in the Victorian State Schools Spectacular.