Sook-Yin Lee
Biography
Sook-Yin Lee (born 1966) is a Toronto-based filmmaker, musician, actor, and broadcaster. Her feature film writer and directorial debut, Year of the Carnivore, starring Cristin Milioti, premiered at TIFF. In 2014, Lee won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Performance by a Lead Dramatic Actress in Jack. She wrote and performed Unsafe for Canadian Stage, which examined questions of censorship and artistic freedom. She won Best Director and Best Picture at the 2018 Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival for Octavio Is Dead! She is a music recording artist and film score composer, contributing songs to Infinity Pool and Antiviral. Sook-Yin Lee directs and co-writes the live-action movie adaptation of Chester Brown’s best-selling graphic novel Paying For It, which premiered at TIFF 2024.
Known For
All Movies (24)
- Boys Night2026 · as Ed's Mom (voice)
- Darkest Miriam2025 · as Susu Leung
- Endless Cookie2025 · as Radio Announcer
- Close to You2024 · as Emily
- Rest and Relax2024 · as Multiple Roles
- A Fermenting Woman2024 · as Marielle
- 299 Queen Street West2023
- Death and Sickness.2020 · as Herself
- Five Bucks at the Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls2019
- Whispers and Shoulders2015 · as Specter
- Jack2013 · as Olivia Chow
- Toronto Stories2008 · as Willia
- Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band2008 · as Self (archive footage)
- Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'2007 · as Sofia
- Shortbus2006 · as Sofia
- 3 Needles2005 · as Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife
- The Art of Woo2001 · as Alessa Woo
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch2001 · as Kwahng-Yi
- Boy Meets Girl1998 · as Judy
- Bad Company1995 · as Waitress
- Green Dolphin Beat1994 · as Mai-ling
- Mood Indigo1993 · as Jenny
- Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle1990 · as Narrator (voice)
- No Tickets at the Door—
All TV Shows (1)
- Sliders1995 · as Pat