Appears in 30 titles

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
6.3
Shortbus
2006
as Sofia
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
7.5
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
2001
as Kwahng-Yi
Bad Company
4.9
Bad Company
1995
as Waitress
3 Needles
6.0
3 Needles
2005
as Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife
Close to You
5.8
Close to You
2024
as Emily
Darkest Miriam
6.1
Darkest Miriam
2025
as Susu Leung
Toronto Stories
3.5
Toronto Stories
2008
as Willia
Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band
3.7
The Art of Woo
2001
as Alessa Woo
Endless Cookie
7.0
Endless Cookie
2025
as Radio Announcer
10.0
Green Dolphin Beat
1994
as Mai-ling
299 Queen Street West
7.0
Jack
2013
as Olivia Chow
Mood Indigo
9.0
Mood Indigo
1993
as Jenny
A Fermenting Woman
6.5
A Fermenting Woman
2024
as Marielle
Boy Meets Girl
8.0
Boy Meets Girl
1998
as Judy
Rest and Relax
Rest and Relax
2024
as Multiple Roles
Whispers and Shoulders
2015
as Specter