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