Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Vancouver, Canada
Credits
31 titles
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
Filmography
Boys Night
Ed's Mom (voice)
Endless Cookie
Radio Announcer
Darkest Miriam
Susu Leung
Paying for It
Director
Close to You
Emily
Rest and Relax
Multiple Roles
A Fermenting Woman
Marielle
299 Queen Street West
Death and Sickness.
Herself
Five Bucks at the Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls
Octavio Is Dead!
Writer
Whispers and Shoulders
Specter
Three Movements
Story
Jack
Olivia Chow
Year of the Carnivore
Director
Toronto Stories
Willia
Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band
Self (archive footage)
Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'
Sofia
Shortbus
Sofia
Unlocked
Writer
3 Needles
Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife
Girl Cleans Sink
Director
The Art of Woo
Alessa Woo
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Kwahng-Yi
Boy Meets Girl
Judy
Sliders
Pat
Bad Company
Waitress
Green Dolphin Beat
Mai-ling
Mood Indigo
Jenny
Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle
Narrator (voice)
No Tickets at the Door