- Known For
- Acting
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- Place of Birth
- Vancouver, Canada
Sook-Yin Lee
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
movieBoys Night
2026 · Ed's Mom (voice)
movieDarkest Miriam
2025 · Susu Leung
moviePaying for It
2025 · Director, Screenplay, Original Music Composer
movieEndless Cookie
2025 · Radio Announcer
movieClose to You
2024 · Emily
movieRest and Relax
2024 · Multiple Roles, Director, Editor, Writer, Music, Cinematography, Producer
movieA Fermenting Woman
2024 · Marielle
movie299 Queen Street West
2023
movieDeath and Sickness.
2020 · Herself, Director, Director of Photography
movieFive Bucks at the Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls
2019
movieOctavio Is Dead!
2018 · Writer, Director, Music
Whispers and Shoulders
movieWhispers and Shoulders
2015 · Specter, Director
Three Movements
movieThree Movements
2013 · Story, Co-Director
Jack
movieJack
2013 · Olivia Chow
movieYear of the Carnivore
2009 · Director, Writer, Original Music Composer
movieToronto Stories
2008 · Willia, Director, Writer
moviePansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band
2008 · Self (archive footage)
movieGifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'
2007 · Sofia
movieShortbus
2006 · Sofia
Unlocked
movieUnlocked
2005 · Writer, Director
movie3 Needles
2005 · Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife
Girl Cleans Sink
movieGirl Cleans Sink
2004 · Director, Writer
The Art of Woo
movieThe Art of Woo
2001 · Alessa Woo
movieHedwig and the Angry Inch
2001 · Kwahng-Yi
movieBoy Meets Girl
1998 · Judy
tvSliders
1995 · Pat
movieBad Company
1995 · Waitress
Green Dolphin Beat
movieGreen Dolphin Beat
1994 · Mai-ling
movieMood Indigo
1993 · Jenny
movieEscapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle
1990 · Narrator (voice), Writer, Director
movieNo Tickets at the Door
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