Sook-Yin Lee
Actor
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
Shortbus
as Sofia 2006
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
as Kwahng-Yi 2001
Bad Company
as Waitress 1995
3 Needles
as Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife 2005
Close to You
as Emily 2024
Darkest Miriam
as Susu Leung 2025
Toronto Stories
as Willia 2008
Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band
as Self 2008
Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'
as Sofia 2007
The Art of Woo
as Alessa Woo 2001
299 Queen Street West
2023
Jack
as Olivia Chow 2013
A Fermenting Woman
as Marielle 2024
Green Dolphin Beat
as Mai-ling 1994
Five Bucks at the Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls
2019
Mood Indigo
as Jenny 1993
Rest and Relax
as Multiple Roles 2024