Benjamin Michael "Ben" Lee (born 11 September 1978) is an Australian ARIA Award winning musician and actor. Lee began his career as a musician at the age of 14 with the Sydney band Noise Addict, but focused on his solo career when the band broke up in 1995. He appeared as the protagonist in the Australian film The Rage in Placid Lake (2003). Lee has released eleven solo studio albums.

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Lee was born in Sydney and was raised in a Jewish household, but does not consider himself religious. He was educated at Moriah College, an independent, Modern Orthodox Jewish, co-educational, day school, located in Sydney's eastern suburbs.

Lee dated Claire Danes for several years; their relationship ended in 2003; and he later married actress Ione Skye on 28 December 2008, in a Hindu wedding ceremony in India. Their first child, Goldie Priya Lee, was born on 24 September 2009.

In 2008 Lee was nominated as PETA's World's Sexiest Vegetarian. However, Lee admits that as he eats fish.