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