Lee Chamberlin was born in New York City, the daughter of Ida Roberta (née Small) and Bernando LaPallo, who is the centenarian author of “Age Less/Live More” and the world's oldest blogger. Chamberlin was a regular performer during the first two years of the esteemed series The Electric Company, and she made guest appearances in the television series What's Happening!!, Diff'rent Strokes, and NYPD Blue. In 1979, she played the wife of James Earl Jones's character on the short-lived police drama Paris.
She had a prominent role in the film Uptown Saturday Night, in which she portrayed the memorable Madame Zenobia. She also starred in the film Let's Do it Again, the follow-up film to Uptown Saturday Night.
From 1982 through 1991, Chamberlain portrayed Pat Baxter, the mother of the popular character Angela Baxter Hubbard on the ABC soap opera All My Children.
Chamberlin died of cancer at the age of 76 on May 25, 2014.
