Sook-Yin Lee
Known For: Acting
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
2025
- Darkest Miriam as Susu Leung
- Endless Cookie as Radio Announcer
- Paying for It ... (Director)
2024
- Close to You as Emily
- A Fermenting Woman as Marielle
- Rest and Relax as Multiple Roles
2020
- Death and Sickness. as Herself
2018
- Octavio Is Dead! ... (Director)
2015
- Whispers and Shoulders as Specter
2013
- Jack as Olivia Chow
- Three Movements ... (Co-Director)
2009
- Year of the Carnivore ... (Director)
2008
- Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band as Self
- Toronto Stories as Willia
2007
2006
- Shortbus as Sofia
2004
- Girl Cleans Sink ... (Director)
2001
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch as Kwahng-Yi
- The Art of Woo as Alessa Woo
1998
- Boy Meets Girl as Judy
1995
- Sliders as Pat
- Bad Company as Waitress
1994
- Green Dolphin Beat as Mai-ling
1993
- Mood Indigo as Jenny
1990
- Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle as Narrator (voice)