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Sook-Yin Lee

Sook-Yin Lee

Actor · Vancouver, Canada

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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.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Shortbus (2006) — Sofia
  2. Sliders (1995) — Pat
  3. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) — Kwahng-Yi
  4. Bad Company (1995) — Waitress
  5. 3 Needles (2005) — Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife
  6. Close to You (2024) — Emily
  7. Darkest Miriam (2025) — Susu Leung
  8. Toronto Stories (2008) — Willia
  9. Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band (2008) — Self (archive footage)
  10. Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus' (2007) — Sofia
  11. The Art of Woo (2001) — Alessa Woo
  12. Endless Cookie (2025) — Radio Announcer
  13. Green Dolphin Beat (1994) — Mai-ling
  14. 299 Queen Street West (2023)
  15. Jack (2013) — Olivia Chow
  16. Mood Indigo (1993) — Jenny
  17. A Fermenting Woman (2024) — Marielle
  18. Five Bucks at the Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls (2019)
  19. Boy Meets Girl (1998) — Judy
  20. Rest and Relax (2024) — Multiple Roles
  21. Whispers and Shoulders (2015) — Specter
  22. Death and Sickness. (2020) — Herself
  23. Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle (1990) — Narrator (voice)
  24. No Tickets at the Door
  25. Boys Night (2026) — Ed's Mom (voice)

Directed

  1. Octavio Is Dead! (2018) — Director
  2. Year of the Carnivore (2009) — Director
  3. Paying for It (2025) — Director
  4. Toronto Stories (2008) — Director
  5. Girl Cleans Sink (2004) — Director
  6. Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle (1990) — Director
  7. Rest and Relax (2024) — Director
  8. Unlocked (2005) — Director
  9. Whispers and Shoulders (2015) — Director
  10. Death and Sickness. (2020) — Director