Remick was educated at the Hewitt School, Barnard College, Swaboda Ballet School and became an actress in motion pictures, on stage, and in television dramas and miniseries.

She received a Tony Award nomination in 1966 for her role as a blind woman terrorized by drug smugglers in "Wait Until Dark" (the character was played by Audrey Hepburn in the film version). Lee Remick has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6104 Hollywood Blvd.

Her first husband was Bill Colleran, an American television producer, with whom she had a son and daughter. Her second husband was British film producer Kip Gowans.

Some of her work:

• Days of Wine and Roses, (nominated for an Oscar)
• Tribute (movie)
• The Long Hot Summer
• Wild River
• Anatomy of a Murder
• A Face in the Crowd
• Baby the Rain Must Fall, (1965)
• The Detective, (1968)
• Sometimes a Great Notion, (1971)
• The Omen, (1976)
• The Europeans, (1979)
• Mistral’s Daughter, TV mini-series