Sook-Yin Lee
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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.
Filmography
Boys Night
2026
as Ed's Mom (voice)
Endless Cookie
2025
as Radio Announcer
Darkest Miriam
2025
as Susu Leung
Close to You
2024
as Emily
Rest and Relax
2024
as Multiple Roles
A Fermenting Woman
2024
as Marielle
299 Queen Street West
2023
Death and Sickness.
2020
as Herself
Five Bucks at the Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls
2019
- No poster
Whispers and Shoulders
2015
as Specter
- No poster
Jack
2013
as Olivia Chow
Toronto Stories
2008
as Willia
Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band
2008
as Self (archive footage)
Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'
2007
as Sofia
Shortbus
2006
as Sofia
3 Needles
2005
as Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife
- No poster
The Art of Woo
2001
as Alessa Woo
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
2001
as Kwahng-Yi
Boy Meets Girl
1998
as Judy
Bad Company
1995
as Waitress
Green Dolphin Beat
1994
as Mai-ling
Mood Indigo
1993
as Jenny
Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle
1990
as Narrator (voice)
No Tickets at the Door
Unreleased