Lela Lee

Lela Lee (born in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress and cartoonist, television writer, and the creator of the animated cartoon Angry Little Asian Girl and the related comic strip Angry Little Girls.

Career

Acting career She is a film and television actress, with roles in the 1998 film Yellow and the 2002 film Better Luck Tomorrow. She was a series regular in the short-lived Sci Fi Channel series Tremors, and had a recurring guest role on NBC's Scrubs. Lee made a guest appearance in the first episode of Season Four of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm, playing an angry Asian woman, who launches a physical and verbal attack on star Larry David after he suggests Tang is a common Chinese name. Lee was also in the episode "Animal Pragmatism" of Charmed as Tessa, a college student.

Angry Little Girls and Angry Little Asian Girl Angry Little Girls was developed as a character she developed in 1994 when she was a sophomore at UC Berkeley. She developed the character after attending Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation with a friend. That night, Lee stayed up drawing with typing paper and Crayola markers, and a video camera Three years after creating the first episode of the Angry Little Asian Girl, she created four more, and sent the five episodes titled Angry Little Asian Girl, Five Angry Episodes to festivals where they were well-reviewed by critics of the LA Times and LA Weekly. These episodes, like the first, use foul language and shocking imagery to bring attention to issues surrounding the intersection of being Asian and a woman.

Filmography

Television Year Title Role Episodes 1997 Relativity Tour Guide Episode: "Billable Hours" 1998 Felicity Pauline Episode: "Finally" 1998 Profiler Kathy Jung Episode: "Ties that Bind" 2000 Rude Awakening Joyce Episode: "Yes Sir, That's my Baby" 2000 Opposite Sex Judy Episode: "Homosexual Episode" 2000 Charmed Tessa Episode: "Animal Pragmatism" 2001 One on One Reporter Episode: "The Way You Make Me Feel" 2001 Friends Wedding Guest Episode: "The One With All the Cheesecakes" 2001 What I Like About You Waitress Episode: "Holly's First Job" 2001–2002 Scrubs Bonnie 3 Episodes 2003 Will and Grace Ping Episode: "Swimming to Cambodia" 2003 Tremors Jodi Chang 13 Episodes 2004 10-8 Officers on Duty Marilyn Choi Episode: "Flirtin' With Disaster" 2004 Curb Your Enthusiasm Bobbi Episode: "Mel's Offer" 2005 Untitled Oakley & Weinstein Project Officer Chin Episode: "Pilot" 2007 The Young and the Restless Speech Therapist Episode: "1.8672" 2009 The Eastmann's Mother Episode: "Pilot" 2014 Angry Little Asian Girl Kim, Maria, Deborah, misc voices 12 Episodes 2014 Growing Up Fisher Mrs. Han 2 Episodes 2018–2020 Better Call Saul Lillian Simmons 2 Episodes

Film Year Title Role 1996 Flow Yel Fan 1997 Yellow Janet 1998 Shopping for Fangs Naomi 2000 The Girls' Room Chloe 2000 Rave Lisa 2000 This Guy is Falling Alison 2000 The Medicine Show Incompetent Nurse 2000 The Moment After Sarone 2001 A Kitty Bobo Show Maggie 2002 Better Luck Tomorrow Slapper 2003 Exposed Missy

Writing credits Angry Little Asian Girl (2014) – creator, writer, executive producer. The First Day of School (2014) – writer Dinner Party (2014) – writer Kim's Date (2014) – writer Mother Lee's Etiquette (2014) – writer Sistahood (2014) – writer Deborah's Diet (2014) – writer Occupy Placentia (2014) – writer Chuy, the Undocumented Chicken (2014) – writer Kim's Twinkie Defense (2014) – writer Fast Food Rude (2014) – writer Xyla's Therapy (2014) – writer Anger Management (2014) – writer