- Born
- Died
- Birth nameYoung Kwok Lee
- Nickname
- Unofficial Asian American Photographer Laureate
- Corky Lee was born on September 5, 1947 in Queens, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for A Father's Son (2022), Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story (2022) and Asian American Life (2013). He died on January 27, 2021 in Queens, New York City, New York, USA.
- Has an older sister Ellen and a younger brother John.
- New York City Mayor David Dinkins proclaimed May 5, 1988, to be "Corky Lee Day".
- In 1993 he received the Photographer-Artist-in-Residence Award from Syracuse University and a Special Recognition Award from the Asian American Journalists Association.
- Earned a degree in American History from CUNY/Queens College in 1965.
- Son of Lee Yin Chuck and Jung See Lee, both of whom immigrated to the United States from China. His father was employed as a laundryman, his mother worked as a seamstress.
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