Kim Lee

During his 40-year fitness career, Lee developed his own, unique and revolutionary teaching style, having trained major players at leading talent agency CAA and A-list celebrities like Gregory Peck, Natalie Wood, Ali MacGraw, Steve McQueen, Barbra Streisand, and Priscilla Presley. From humble beginnings, Lee caught his big break as a line dancer on Dick Clark's Where the Action Is (1965) at the age of 19. Two years later, he moved to Hollywood where he began working as a dancer and choreographer performing at top venues. His career soon led him to Pilates Method at Ron Fletcher's Studio where he eventually served as a director and helped grow the studio's clientele list to include Cher, Dorothy Hamill, Goldie Hawn, Paula Abdul, Katharine Ross, Steven Spielberg and Susan Dey. In 1975, Lee opened his own studio with his wife Wanda Bouvier and Richard Simmons, establishing America's first gym to include a salad bar. Two years later, Lee and Bouvier parted ways with Simmons and opened their own studio on Burton Way in Beverly Hills, providing instruction to such Hollywood personalities as the Jackson family, Tina Turner, the cast of Charlie's Angels (1976), George Harrison, Vidal Sassoon and the Sinatra family. Throughout the 90's, Lee focused on private training of his esteemed clientele, as well as teacher's certification in his native Salt Lake City, Utah. His methodology became known as Kim Lee's Pilates Zen, and his clients in the 2000's included stars such as Madonna, Angelina Jolie, Denise Richards, Gerard Butler, Matt Damon, and Christian Bale. He passed away in his sleep on March 5, 2010 and his ashes are interred in his native Utah.