Lee Kessler

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Lee Kessler

Lee Kessler is a television actress, screenwriter, playwright, stage director, and e-commerce business owner.  Her career in Hollywood and New York spans 40+ years and includes dozens of guest-starring roles in episodic TV, mini-series, and movies-of-the-week. She had reoccurring roles in the series “Hill Street Blues” and “Matlock” and was submitted for Emmy nominations twice for her starring roles in the movie “Collision Course” and the ABC special “Which Mother Is Mine?” She co-starred with Peter O’Toole in the movie “Creator.”

Lee became the first actress in the world authorized to portray the legendary diarist Anais Nin when her play, “Anais Nin—The Paris Years,” was produced in New York and Los Angeles, with a subsequent tour on the West Coast.  She also directed the West Coast premiere of A.R. Gurney’s “Who Killed Richard Cory?”

Since the publication of her series of suspense novels, White King and the Doctor, White King Rising, White King and the Battle of America: The Endgame, and White King and the Seat at the Table she has made numerous radio and TV appearances discussing the books’ relevance to the events we have all witnessed and experienced in the first two decades of the new Millennium and has spoken often at book signings and private readings in New York and Los Angeles.

In 2008 she was inducted into the Dazzling Daughters of the American Revolution—becoming one of only 121 women in American history to be selected for this prestigious group which includes luminaries Susan B. Anthony, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Clara Barton.

In 2014 Lee was chosen by the Secretary of the Air Force to participate in the Air War College/National Security Forum—to engage with top US and Foreign Military officers in strategic analysis and discussions focusing on national and international security issues.

She launched the Blog “Incoming Tomatoes” in 2018, where she does unique political commentary.  Many of those articles have been republished by such news outlets as CNSNews.com, Dr. Sherri Tenpenny’s “The Tenpenny Report,” “The Stand Up America US Foundation” and “Not On Our Watch”