Sook-Yin Lee
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
2025Darkest Miriam
Susu Leung
2025Endless Cookie
Radio Announcer
2024Close to You
Emily
2024A Fermenting Woman
Marielle
2024Rest and Relax
Multiple Roles
2023299 Queen Street West
2020Death and Sickness.
Herself
2019Five Bucks at the Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls
2008Toronto Stories
Willia
2008Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band
Self
2007Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'
Sofia
2006Shortbus
Sofia
20053 Needles
Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife
2001Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Kwahng-Yi
1998Boy Meets Girl
Judy
1995Bad Company
Waitress
1993Mood Indigo
Jenny
1990Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle
Narrator (voice)
No Tickets at the Door
