Before Amber Dawn rose to fame she studied acting under the influence of Milton Katselas at the Beverly Hills Playhouse. Amber supported her acting career through fashion modeling and has been featured in Triangles swimwear commercials, and various other billboards and magazines worldwide including Versace, Tom Ford, Karen Kell, and Gucci. Amber Dawn Lee was featured in Creative Screenwriting magazine as a writer whose screenplay works are "raw and full of heart." Greg Brooker (Stuart Little writer) said "Amber Lee has an innate instinct to understand drama and she puts it on the page beautifully." Two of her screenplays Mockstar and Children of the West were quarter finalists in the AAA screenwriting competition. Amber created her own production company Abovo Films in 2010. After roles in short and feature indie films in Texas she realized her career could only happen if she moved to Los Angeles At the encouragement of friends, she packed up her car in the middle of the night and drove straight to California. She checked into the Sportsmen's Lodge, and started acting classes at the world famous Beverly Hills Playhouse. Amber Dawn Lee is a humanitarian and speaks on panels around the United States on issues of animal rights. She has saved several dogs from shelters, and found them homes. She has been featured in several magazines as a model including the cover of Met Magazine, and Miami fashion shows for Versace. She appeared on Good Morning America with Dianne Sawyer. In 2012 she filmed a documentary (The Rise and Fall of Zion) in Colorado City, Arizona, and Utah where the rapist Warren Jeffs leads a polygamist commune.