Lee Remick was the daughter of a stage actress to the world. Early on, she moved with her family to New York, where she attended Miss Hewitt's Classes and ballet lessons at Ruth Swoboda took and modern dance with Charles Weidman. She had her stage debut in 1952 during a big show in a music-circus tent in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. In 1953 she played on Broadway in the play to Be Your Age, and from that time was a regular presence on stage. 1966 her portrayal of the brave blind man in waiting until it is dark (and later was filmed with Audrey Hepburn) is a major achievement, a film as well as her London stage debut ten years later, in the role of the roadhouse singer in Bus Stop (with Marilyn Monroe).

As interesting as their films in the 1970s TV adaptations are regarded her stage success, eg 1972 Sommer and Smoke, 1973 The Man Who Came to Dinner. Remick also had success in television dramas, such as the mother of Winston Churchill in Jennie, Lady Randolph Churchill and in 1979 as General Eisenhower's mistress in Chauffeurin and Ike: The War Years.

Despite her cancer (liver and kidney cancer), which occurred in the 1980s, she worked tirelessly to further the stage and in television, where she played in 1989 in the mini-series in 80 days around the world. She succumbed to her illness after the filming of the TV movie Young Catherine.

Lee Remick was married twice. In 1957 she married the film director Bill Colleran, from whom she was divorced 1968th The couple had two children. His second wife, she was married from 1970 until her death with the director and producer Kip Gowans.
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