- Lee is chairman of The Thalians, an organization for the treatment of mental health at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. Debbie Reynolds was the president. Both have been actively involved in building this celebrity-run organization for over 30 years.
- She and her husband were married 44 years until his death.
- She loves it when fans remember her Twilight Zone episode, A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain (1963).
- She and her husband own several houses scattered across the United States. In her acting travels, she stays at these different houses for varied periods of time. About her house-hopping travels she jokes, "I sleep around.".
- Inducted into the Lithuanian American Hall of Fame in 2013.
- Attended and graduated from Hollywood High School in Los Angeles, California (1954).
- Attended Los Angeles City College and the University of California, Los Angeles.
- Ruta Lee is credited using her birth name, "Ruta Kilmonis".
- In 1964, she made international headlines by flying to Lithuania to obtain the freedom of her ailing grandmother. Soviet officials had steadfastly refused 88-year-old Ludvise Kamandulis to leave her Iron Curtain home to spend her remaining years in California with her actress granddaughter.
- From the 60s, developed a lucrative sideline as an artist, some her her oil paintings being much sought-after.
- 1957 Hollywood Deb Star.
- An avid animal lover.
- The only child of two Lithuanian immigrants. Her father was a tailor and her mother was a seamstress and homemaker.
- Has a star on the Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard.
- In 1948, her family moved to Los Angeles to escape the cold Canadian winters.
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