Elaine Lee is an American actor, playwright, comic book colorist and comic book writer. She received a 1980 Daytime EMMY nomination for her role on NBC-TV’s The Doctors and was a founding member and artistic director of Manhattan-based theatre company, Wild Hair Productions.

As a comic writer, her best-known work is likely Starstruck, her collaboration with artist Mike Kaluta which has appeared in both stage play and comics incarnations. A StarStruck spin-off by Lee and Kaluta, The Galactic Girl Guides, appeared in Dave Stevens' Rocketeer Adventure Magazine. Lee also scripted Skin Tight Orbit, an NBM/Amerotica collection of adult comic stories, some set in the universe of Starstruck.

She has worked on several limited series for DC Comics under its main imprint and their Vertigo Comics and Helix imprints. These include Vamps and its sequels Vamps: Hollywood & Vein and Vamps: Pumpkin Time, the science fiction series BrainBanx, and an early 1990s limited series reviving the character of Ragman, Ragman: Cry of the Dead.

Lee has written for Marvel Comics, including Saint Sinner, a Marvel/Razorline series created by Clive Barker, and The Transmutation of Ike Garuda, with artist James Sherman, for Marvel/Epic Comics. She also scripted Prince Valiant, which was plotted by Charles Vess and drawn by John Ridgeway. For Dark Horse Comics, Lee and Vamps co-creator, Will Simpson, teamed up to do Indiana Jones and the Spear of Destiny. Lee’s shorter works have been published in Heavy Metal Magazine, Epic Illustrated and Taboo.

With her sister, comedian Susan Norfleet Lee, Elaine Lee co-authored the humorous relationship book Porch Dogs, under the name Georgia Sullivan.

Elaine Lee (born 1937 in South Africa) is an Australia-based theatre and television actor best known for her long-running role in the 1970s television soap opera Number 96.

Her acting career began in the 1960s in South Africa where she acted extensively in the theatre and on radio. Emigrated to Australia in 1970 and became well-known playing the purpetually unlucky-in-love Vera Collins in Number 96 starting 1972. Lee was an original cast member of the serial and the sophisticated Vera emerged as a key character in many of its storylines. Vera suffered several failed love affairs and was raped three times as the story progressed - including once in the feature film version of the serial released in 1974 - and was frequently seen nude in the series. Lee's then husband, South African-born actor Garth Meade, also had a brief role in Number 96.

Elaine Lee remained in the role of Vera for four and a half years, finally leaving in mid 1976 of her own volition. A few months later the producers of the show briefly returned her to the series as part of an attempt to launch a situation comedy spin-off following the further adventures of Vera Collins away from Number 96, however this series never eventuated. Soon afterwards Lee played the regular role of the senior mistress in school-based drama series Glenview High (1977) however the series was not a major success and was not renewed beyond its single season.

She subsequently appeared in several productions of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, in TV movies and panel shows, and made guest appearances in drama series such as A Country Practice. She also continued her stage work, including the challenging one-woman show Turn on the Heat, loosely based on the last two hours of Marilyn Monroe's life.

She made sporadic appearances in Australian feature films during the 1990s, in 1997 played a regular role in critically panned situation comedy series Bullpitt, and had a recurring role in series Heartbreak High. In the 2000s Lee has continued to make occasional guest appearances in Australian films and drama series, and opened an acting school in Sydney with fellow thespian Judi Farr. In 2005 she acted in soap opera Home and Away. She also presents a commentary on the 2006 DVD release of the Number 96 feature film.

Elaine Lee (I) had worked extensively in theatre and radio in her native South Africa prior to settling in Australia in 1970. In 1972 she was one of the original cast members of groundbreaking serial "Number 96" (1972) in which she played smouldering older sex-symbol Vera Collins and suffered through a series of ill-fated love affairs with various shady men. She reprised the role in the feature film version of the serial Number 96 (1974). Vera Collins was one of the show's most popular characters and survived four and a half years of tribulation until Elaine Lee left the series. Soon after a spin-off featuring Lee as Vera Collins and another former Number 96 actress Abigail (I) was planned but did not eventuate. She then made infrequent guest appearances in television drama series and mini-series, while her career moved more towards the stage with several successful theatrical roles. In 1997 she returned to a regular television role in the comedy series _"Bullpitt" (1997)_. Her character, named Joan Collins, is somewhat of a parody of Vera Collins and of Elaine Lee herself.