---
name: "Paris Lees"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/paris-lees"
fi1m_id: "paris-lees"
imdb_id: "nm6065452"
tmdb_id: 2180898
wikidata_id: "Q15622207"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1986"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-17T21:12:00.709119+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Paris Lees

## Identity

Paris Lees

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/paris-lees
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** paris-lees
- **IMDb ID:** nm6065452
- **TMDB ID:** 2180898
- **Wikidata ID:** Q15622207
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Lees, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15622207, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6065452/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2180898

Producer. Born 1 January 1986 in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1986, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Lees, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15622207, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6065452/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2180898

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*What It Feels Like for a Girl*](https://film.one/tv/what-it-feels-like-for-a-girl.md) (84)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Paris Lees is an English writer, broadcaster and campaigner. She wrote and created the eight-part BBC Three series *What It Feels Like for a Girl* (2025), adapted from her own 2021 memoir of the same name, and served as executive producer. She also appears in the series as The Shaman.

Lees was born in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. She began her career in journalism, writing for publications including *Gay Times*, *The Guardian* and *British Vogue*, where she was the first trans columnist. She has presented on BBC Radio 1 and Channel 4, and appeared in earlier television including *Boy Meets Girl* (2015). The series received five BAFTA Television Award nominations, including for Lees in the Writer: Drama category.

*Sources: radiotimes.com, imdb.com, uk.style.yahoo.com, unitedagents.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *What It Feels Like for a Girl* (2025), Fi1m 84, Creator, Writer, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/what-it-feels-like-for-a-girl.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *What It Feels Like for a Girl* (2025), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/what-it-feels-like-for-a-girl.md)

## Gallery

- ![Paris Lees](https://film.one/media/person/44094/gallery-7b3330e19886.jpg) Paris Lees — Starseekers, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Paris_Lees_%28cropped_1%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Paris Lees at the Brick Lane Bookshop with her book 'What It Feels Like For A Girl'. (2023)](https://film.one/media/person/44094/gallery-06d8366c54f6.jpg) Paris Lees at the Brick Lane Bookshop with her book 'What It Feels Like For A Girl'. (2023) — Starseekers, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Paris_Lees.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Paris Lees, Serge Nicholson in 2014](https://film.one/media/person/44094/gallery-ced987ba94f8.png) Paris Lees, Serge Nicholson in 2014 — Dominic Davies, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Paris_Lees_2_Pink_Therapy.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Paris Lee, Paris Lees in 2914 Pink Therapy (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/44094/gallery-1a148d39f099.png) Paris Lee, Paris Lees in 2914 Pink Therapy (2014) — Dominic Davies, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Paris_Lees_Pink_Therapy.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Paris Lees, Serge Nicholson at Pink Therapy in 2014](https://film.one/media/person/44094/gallery-fa18bede2176.png) Paris Lees, Serge Nicholson at Pink Therapy in 2014 — Dominic Davies, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Paris_Lees_and_Serge_Nicholson_Pink_Therapy.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- BBC 100 Women 2013: BBC 100 Women (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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