# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/canada-lee
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:51:24.494Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/canada-lee"
name: "Canada Lee"
slug: "canada-lee"
description: "Leonard Lionel Cornelius Canegata, known professionally as Canada Lee, was an American professional boxer and actor who pioneered roles for African Americans. After careers as a jockey, boxer and musician, he became an actor in the Federal Theatre Project, including the 1936 production of Macbeth adapted and directed by Orson Welles. Lee later starred in Welles's original Broadway production of Native Son (1941). A champion of civil rights in the 1930s and 1940s, Lee was blacklisted and died shortly before he was scheduled to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee. He advanced the African-American tradition in theatre pioneered by such actors as Paul Robeson. Lee is the father of actor Carl Lee."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Canada-Lee-1948.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1907-03-03"
deathDate: "1952-05-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.89
  momentum:             18.03448275862069
  historical:           11.529276
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0496938/"
    handle:    "nm0496938"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.canadalee.org/"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Lee"
    title: "Canada Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7_%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "كندا لى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7_%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "کانادا لی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Lee"
    title: "Canada Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Lee"
    title: "Canada Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Lee"
    title: "Canada Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7_%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "کانادا لی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Lee"
    title: "Canada Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Lee"
    title: "Canada Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%BA%90%EB%82%98%EB%8B%A4_%EB%A6%AC"
    title: "캐나다 리"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Lee"
    title: "Canada Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C%DA%88%D8%A7_%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "کینیڈا لی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1031985"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/81972"
    title: "Canada Lee"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump