Sook-Yin Lee
Known for: Acting
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
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Shortbus
Sofia
299 Queen Street West
Toronto Stories
Willia
Jack
Olivia Chow
The Art of Woo
Alessa Woo
Close to You
Emily
Darkest Miriam
Susu Leung
Mood Indigo
Jenny
A Fermenting Woman
Marielle
Rest and Relax
Multiple Roles
Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band
Self
Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'
Sofia
3 Needles
Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife
Whispers and Shoulders
Specter
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Kwahng-Yi
Five Bucks at the Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls
Death and Sickness.
Herself
Bad Company
Waitress
Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle
Narrator (voice)
No Tickets at the Door
Endless Cookie
Radio Announcer
Boy Meets Girl
Judy
Sliders
Pat
Year of the Carnivore
Director