My Bio

Lee Gale Gruen (her first name is “Lee Gale”) lives in the East San Francisco Bay area.  She grew up in Los Angeles, California, graduated college from UCLA,  and had a 37-year career as a probation officer. Since retiring, she has become an actress, author, public speaker, and blogger. 

She has appeared in television, film, commercials, theater, and print jobs.  For over a decade, she performed regularly portraying patients at university medical schools as part of student training.  She was one of six supporting exercise/dancers in the 2011 “Jane Fonda Prime Time Firm & Burn” workout DVD. Her transition to becoming an actress in her senior years has been written about in Time Magazine, the Los Angeles Times newspaper, AARP, and in Marlo Thomas’ 2014 book, It Ain’t Over…Till It’s Over, which profiles different women who have reinvented themselves.

Lee Gale is a public speaker on the topic of senior reinvention.  She has also been writing a free blog for nine years at: LeeGaleGruen.wordpress.com where she shares her thoughts, observations, and experiences which she believes are universal to the retiree and senior demographic.  Her public lecture, blog, and self-help book are all titled: Reinventing Yourself in Your Retirement Years: Find Joy, Excitement, and Purpose After You Retire. It is available on amazon.com by clicking here. Her goal is to help retirees, those soon to retire, baby boomers, and seniors reinvent themselves in this new stage of their lives called retirement. Her published memoir about attending a senior acting class at age 60 with her 85-year-old father and going on to become a professional actress is:  Adventures with Dad: A Father and Daughter’s Journey Through a Senior Acting Class. It is available on amazon.com by clicking here.