Lee-Anne Summers

Lee-Anne Summers is a South African actress who first appeared on screen at age five, chosen from a crowd for a Walt Disney World television commercial. At St Andrews school in Johannesburg she studied drama and appeared in productions including The Crucible, Oliver, The Hitchhiker and The Frog Prince, and she also danced with the Free Flight Dance Company. She studied psychology at UCT before training at the New York Film Academy in New York, where she earned top honors and appeared in short films. Her New York stage roles included Agnes of God, Proof, The Children's hour and Labute's The shape of things. After returning to South Africa, she appeared in Darrell Roodt's Prey (2007) with Bridget Mongahan, played a neurologist in To Be First (2007), a docudrama, and took the role of triplets in Big Fellas (2007), the film that made her best known in South Africa. She also played Anneke Keppel in the miniseries Stellenbosch (2007).