Sophie Lee (born on August 7, 1968 in Newcastle, New South Wales), an Australian film and television actress, is known for the TV show "What's Up Doc", an Australian show about Bugs Bunny cartoons shown on Channel 9 in the early 1990s. She acted as compere.-1... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... A view of Newcastle from Stockton Newcastle is Australias sixth largest city and the second largest in the state of New South Wales. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Bugs Bunny, as seen in the Looney Tunes short Rabbit Transit. ...
She has also been in several films, including the Australian comedies Muriel's Wedding, The Castle and He Died With A Felafel In His Hand. Muriels Wedding is a 1994 Australian movie written and directed by P. J. Hogan and starring Toni Collette as Muriel, and Rachel Griffiths as her sensible and down to earth friend Rhonda. ... The Castle is a 1997 Australian film that gained widespread acclaim in Australia, but that was not well understood by those unfamiliar with Australian humour and values. ... He Died With A Felafel In His Hand is a book by John Birmingham, first published in 1994 by The Yellow Press (ISBN 1875989-218), consisting of a collection of colourful anecdotes about living in share houses in Australia with variously dubious housemates. ...
Lee herself was constantly critical of the tendency of TV executives and tabloid journalists to confuse sexuality with sleaze, and as a result she was seen as an unofficial spokesperson for a postmodern, post-political generation and its concerns.
Lee is known to an international audience through her role as Tania in the 1994 suburban tragi-comedy film Muriel's Wedding.
SophieLee was among the first of a new generation of politically astute popular performers in Australia who allowed a virtualized, postmodern public to think even as they admired.
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