Jon Lee was born in Philadelphia, PA. In 2013, he moved to Nashville, TN and obtained his bachelors in music performance and dropped out in his final year of his masters program to pursue acting. In 2018, he began studying with Laura Holloway at the Studio for Acting where he studies Practical Aesthetics and The Method. He earned his first television credit in 2020 after being cast opposite of Jamie Chung in HBO's Lovecraft Country. In 2022, he was cast opposite of Nick Stahl in AMC's Fear The Walking Dead.