Lee could have easily "just said no!" to Grange Hill for a career on the ropes...


 
 

DOB: 21 June 1968

TV: NOAH'S CASTLE (Southern); SQUAD (Thames); Zammo Maguire in GRANGE HILL (BBC 1982-1987); THE BILL (Thames 1988); RESPECT (Yorkshire 1996); TRISHA (Anglia 2001)

FILMS: MEMOIRS OF A SURVIVOR

YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW... Lee's mum Maureen was one of the chaperones on Grange Hill. Although Lee did not star in Grange Hill until 1982, a photo of him featured in the 1981 Grange Hill Annual, in a feature about the Anna Scher theatre.

SCHOOL: Central Foundation Boy's School

HOBBIES: Boxing. Lee would have been a boxer had it not been for Grange Hill.

 
 
 

FAME COSTS... There were several downsides to appearing in Grange Hill for Lee. He was once beaten up because of the show, and was refused entry to a museum because they couldn't cope with him driving girls wild! And once he left Grange Hill, Lee found the acting work dried up.

...ON THAT ROMANCE Unfortunately there was never any romance in real life between Lee and Melissa Wilks (Jackie Wright). However, Lee fancied Melissa like mad, which is why they were paired up on screen.

WHERE IS HE NOW? Running a key cutting shop in London, though he still acts occasionally.

 

Information from 1980s Grange Hill annuals/TV Interviews