Eugene Lee is an African American actor and playwright, best known for Parkland, Coach Carter, Lackawanna Blues, and Menace II Society. Other film credits include Wolf, Mystery Woman: In the Shadows, The Jacksons: An American Dream, Driving Miss Daisy, and The Women of Brewster Place.

Theatre credits include his Broadway debut as Eli in Gem of the Ocean (Walter Kerr Theatre); Off-Broadway, as James Horsford Ottley III in Eyes of the American, Barry Anderson in About Heaven and Earth, Black Man in The Redeemer, Ogilvy in Nightline, Clyde/Reuben Johnson in Sons and Fathers of Sons, Corporal Bernard Cobb in A Soldier’s Play, and Cephus Miles in Home (Theatre Four); and regionally, as Alex Ames in stop. reset. (Goodman Theatre), John Prentice, Sr. in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and Jeremiah/Elder in every tongue Confess (Arena Stage), and Jim Bono in Fences (Huntington Theatre).