Date of Birth

1 December 1984, Columbia, South Carolina, USA

Height

5' 7¾" (1.72 m)

Death

December 2013, Los Angeles, California, USA, suicide by gunshot

Mini Biography

Lee Thompson Young was born as the son of Velma Love and Tommy Scott Young. When he was in second grade his parents split up and he went to live with his mother. At age ten, he portrayed Dr. Martin Luther King in a play called "A Night of Stars and Dreams". That's when Lee decided he wanted to be an actor. After doing community theater for a while, he traveled to New York during the spring break of 1996 and got himself an agent. He moved to NY in June but it wasn't until next year that he got to audition for the part of Jett Jackson. Lee filmed the pilot. He found out in June 1998 from Disney that the show had been picked up.

Trivia

• Wrote an episode for The Famous Jett Jackson (1998), a TV series in which he was the star, the episode originally aired April 8, 2000.
• Attended the Professional Performing Arts High School in New York City. Other alumni included Britney Spears, Claire Danes and Chris Trousdale.
• When Lee was 12, he and his mother moved to New York City so she could attend the prestigious Union Theological Seminary.
• Lee still considered Columbia, SC to be his home. On June 24, 2014 his family started Lee Thompson Young Foundation.
• Was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.