Lee Boardman, born 1972 Manchester, England, is an English actor. He is most well known for playing Murray Priestman in Drop Dead Gorgeous as well as the drug dealer Jez Quigley in Coronation Street. He appears as Timon the Jew in the television series Rome and has signed on to play a recurring role in the second season of the CBS legal drama Shark.

In 2006 Lee Stars in the movie Fated (2006).

He studied and graduated from Oxford Drama School and is currently married to his former Coronation Street co-star Jennifer James. They have one son, Jack, born March 2004.

He studied and graduated from Oxford Drama School - he won a scholarship to get there.

His actress wife Jennifer James gave birth to his first child - a boy named Jack Alexander Boardman in March 2004.