Biography
Ione Skye Lee (née Leitch; born September 4, 1970) is a British-born American actress, author, and painter. She made her film debut in the thriller River's Edge (1986) before gaining mainstream exposure for her starring role in Cameron Crowe's Say Anything... (1989). She continued to appear in films throughout the 1990s, with notable roles in Gas Food Lodging (1992), Wayne's World (1992) and One Night Stand (1997). Other film credits include the comedy Fever Pitch (2005) and an uncredited role ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Anaconda
2025
A group of friends facing mid-life crises head to the rainforest with the intention of remaking their favorite movie from their youth, only to find th...

Messy
2024
Brutally self-aware, promiscuous love addict Stella Fox moves to New York after a devastating break-up and pursues disappointing romantic dalliances o...

Habit
2021
as Sunny
The story of a streetwise party girl who gets mixed up in a violent drug deal and finds a possible way out - by masquerading as a Catholic nun.

The Last Blockbuster
2020
as Self
A documentary on the last remaining Blockbuster Video in Bend, Oregon.

Heartthrob
2017
as Jody Maddox
Sam Maddox, a troubled girl whose father committed suicide, has earned a reputation at her high school for being a bit promiscuous. When Sam begins se...

XOXO
2016
as Susan
XOXO follows six strangers whose lives collide in one frenetic, dream-chasing, hopelessly romantic night.

Dear Eleanor
2016
as Charlotte
Two teenage girls travel across the U.S. in 1962, during the chaos of the Cuban missile crisis, in search of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Kitty
2016
as Mother
A girl dreams of becoming a kitten.

Monsters
2015
as Marie
Jenn lives in an underground bunker, protected from the monsters that now ravage the world. This is the day that she goes outside...

Day Out of Days
2015
as Abernathy
In Los Angeles, a 40-year-old actress works to make it in the cutthroat business of Hollywood while contending with ever-youthful competition.

Ingrid
2015
as Helena
A girl finds herself after failing her latest audition.

High School Possession
2014
as Bonnie Mitchell
Lauren must prevent fellow students from performing an exorcism on her best friend Chloe.

Haunt
2014
as Emily Asher
An introverted teen sparks with his new neighbor, and together the couple begins to explore the haunted house that his family has unknowingly just pur...

Return to Babylon
2013
as Virginia Rappe
Scandals and pratfalls abound in this satirical and sexy look at the silent movie era, photographed with a hand-cranked camera and scored with music o...

Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
2012
as Self
Charming, intelligent and iconoclastic, Ben Lee is an Australian singer-songwriter whose creative growth since his early adolescence has undergone alm...

Bear
2011
Music
Jack means well, but sometimes good intentions have horrible consequences.

David Goldberg
2011
Director
Short film adaptation of Daniel Clowes' "Ice Haven"

The Santa Incident
2010
as Joanna
During a ride on his sleigh Santa is mistaken for an alien in a UFO. After an attack, he ends up seriously injured in a small town. Two children must ...

Rappin' With The Rickster
2010
as Self
Join photographer turned public access guru Ricky Powell in this collection of clips from his influential NY TV show, Rappin' With The Rickster.

My Father's Will
2009
as Diana Mancini
Ferro Olivetti, a billionaire playboy and businessman, promises to fulfill his dying father's final request: to live one month without his wealth.

Spider
2007
Vocals
A young man tries to make things right again in his relationship after he and his girlfriend get in a fight.

Zodiac
2007
as Kathleen Johns (uncredited)
The Zodiac murders cause the lives of Paul Avery, David Toschi and Robert Graysmith to intersect.

12 Hours to Live
2006
as Megan Saunders
Eighteen-year-old Amy is having a bad day. Not only has she been kidnapped by a deranged gunman, but as a diabetic without her insulin, her chances of...

The Lather Effect
2006
as Will
On the eve of selling her mother's house, a thirty-something housewife wakes up to a hangover surrounded by her best friends from high school...
Beastie Boys Solid Gold Hits
2005
as Self
Solid Gold Hits is a greatest hits collection by Beastie Boys, released in November 2005. In contrast to 1999's The Sounds of Science anthology, Solid...

Bad Girls Behind Bars
2005
as Carol Madison (archive footage)
A camp, affectionate look at women in prison films - the girls you love to hate and hate to love.

Fever Pitch
2005
as Molly
When Ben Wrightman, a young teacher, begins dating pretty businesswoman Lindsey Meeks, the two don't seem to have a lot of the same interests, but the...

Back When We Were Grownups
2004
as Minerva "Min" Foo
A 53-year-old widow believes she's turned into the wrong person in this bittersweet tale based on Anne Tyler's best-seller. Beck's (Blythe Danner) pla...
The Clinic
2004
as Emma Matthews
New veterinary school graduate Dr. Andrew McDonald encounters many challanges on his first day as an intern at a rural but busy veterinary hospital. A...

Dry Cycle
2003
as Jolynn
The sun is setting and we see Dave, an artist, at the Laundromat. Fretting over his wife's ticking clock, Dave happens upon Ruby, a tempestuous beauty...

Chicken Night
2001
as Mama
A little girl narrates her experience with cooking with her single and very pregnant mother during a typical afternoon.
Southlander: Diary of a Desperate Musician
2001
as Miss Highrise
Chance, a hapless Los Angeles musician is searching for the coveted Moletron synthesizer through the classified ad paper the "Southlander", and meetin...

Beastie Boys: Video Anthology
2000
as Self
The Beastie Boys are among the most influential groups of the last two decades. As their music has opened hip-hop to a wider audience and changed the ...

But I'm a Cheerleader
2000
as Kelly (uncredited)
Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy wit...

Men Make Women Crazy Theory
2000
What I wanted to explain in my movie was to show the pain that poeple go through when they are not sure of themselves in a relation. In this way, 'Men...

Mascara
1999
as Rebecca
Mascara is the story of three very different women who rediscover the value of their friendship at a time when their lives are in turmoil. Panic sets ...

Jump
1999
as Stephanie
Friends try to dissuade a suicidal man from jumping off a ledge, but they are not much better off than he is.

Tower of the First Born
1998
as Diane Shannon
Despite her friends' warnings, a woman travels to the Sahara, determined to find her missing archaeologist father and the magical tower he was searchi...

Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five
1998
as Gabby
Two young men who have been friends since early childhood decide to go on a trip to find a third friend who has long since disappeared. Stories they h...

One Night Stand
1997
as Jenny
In Los Angeles, Max Carlyle makes a good living directing commercials and has a happy home life with his wife, Mimi, and two children. When Carlyle tr...

The Perfect Mother
1997
as Kathryn M. Podaras
Since self-made immigrant Nico Podaras's death, widow Elenie runs his lucrative garage, with an illegal side business, generously using the profits to...

The Size of Watermelons
1997
as Maggie
Alex is the definition of loser. He has no, nor has he ever had, friends. His life has no direction and he has a stupid haircut. While attending the V...

Dream for an Insomniac
1996
as Frankie
A girl with insomnia who works in a coffee house has impossibly high standards for her love and fears she will never meet a worthy man. Then in walks ...

Cityscrapes: Los Angeles
1996
as Young Woman
"CITYSCRAPES" takes you on a 24-hour voyeuristic journey through the bedrooms, bathrooms, bars, cars, clubs, restaurants and back alleys of the lives ...
Bed, Bath and Beyond
1996
Writer, Director
Dominique is desperate to to play the title role in her husband Jean Claude's bio-pic "No Sunrise for Selena," but why won't Jean Claude cast his volu...

Four Rooms
1995
as Eva
It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments. It seems t...

Girls in Prison
1994
as Carol Madison
Framed for the murder of a record company president in 1952 Hollywood, young, aspiring singer Aggie O'Hanlon is sentenced to life in prison and tries ...

Samantha
1992
as Elaine
A young woman sets out to find her birth parents when she finds out that she is adopted.

Guncrazy
1992
as Joy
California teen Anita Minteer struggles in the face of an absentee mother, her mom's abusive boyfriend, Rooney, and a lack of respect from her classma...

Gas Food Lodging
1992
as Trudi
Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop diner in a small New Mexico town. The beautiful and...

Wayne's World
1992
as Elyse
The adventures of two amiably aimless metal-head friends, Wayne and Garth. From Wayne's basement, the pair broadcast a talk-show called "Wayne's World...

Mindwalk
1991
as Kit Hoffman
On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Sonia meets Jack and Tom. Sonia is a Norwegian physicist who abandoned a lucrative career after discovering...

The Color of Evening
1990
as Halys Smith
An aging artist seeks his muse and a young lover in the form of a beautiful model.
Cityscrapes
1990
as Wendy
Over the course of a day, Pete Sakes skates his way through 5 intertwined stories in Gen-X era Los Angeles.

Carmilla
1989
as Marie
Lonely young Marie and her father live on a plantation just before the Civil War. Their placid lives are invaded when they rescue a mysterious woman f...

The Rachel Papers
1989
as Rachel Noyce
Poised to attend Oxford University, 19-year-old Charles Highway decides it's high time to have a romantic encounter with an older woman. With the help...

Say Anything...
1989
as Diane Court
Lloyd, an eternal optimist, seeks to capture the heart of Diane, an unattainable high school beauty and straight-A student. He surprises just about ev...

A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon
1988
as Denise Hunter
A recent high school graduate is faced with two options, either go to a business school where his father wants him to go to, or get a full time job. H...

Stranded
1987
as Deirdre Clark
A young woman and her grandmother living in an isolated farmhouse are kidnapped by aliens.

River's Edge
1986
as Clarissa
A group of high-school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Faced with the brutality of death, ea...