Sook-Yin Lee
Sook-Yin Lee 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
- 2024 · Close to You as Emily
- 2024 · Rest and Relax as Multiple Roles
- 2024 · Darkest Miriam as Susu Leung
- 2024 · A Fermenting Woman as
- 2023 · 299 Queen Street West as
- 2020 · Death and Sickness. as Herself
- 2019 · Five Bucks at the Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls as
- 2015 · Whispers and Shoulders as Specter
- 2013 · Jack as Olivia Chow
- 2008 · Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band as Self
- 2008 · Toronto Stories as Willia
- 2007 · Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus' as Sofia
- 2006 · Shortbus as Sofia
- 2005 · 3 Needles as Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife
- 2001 · The Art of Woo as Alessa Woo
- 2001 · Hedwig and the Angry Inch as Kwahng-Yi
- 1998 · Boy Meets Girl as Judy
- 1995 · Sliders as Pat
- 1995 · 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)
- Future · No Tickets at the Door as