
Sook-Yin Lee
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Vancouver, Canada
Sook-Yin Lee
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.
Known For
Acting
(2025)
Darkest Miriam
as Susu Leung
(2025)
Endless Cookie
as Radio Announcer
(2024)
Close to You
as Emily
(2024)
(2024)
Rest and Relax
as Multiple Roles
(2023)
(2020)
Death and Sickness.
as Herself
(2019)
(2015)
Whispers and Shoulders
as Specter
(2013)
Jack
as Olivia Chow
(2008)
Toronto Stories
as Willia
(2008)
(2007)
(2006)
Shortbus
as Sofia
(2005)
3 Needles
as Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife
(2001)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
as Kwahng-Yi
(2001)
The Art of Woo
as Alessa Woo
(1998)
Boy Meets Girl
as Judy
(1995)
Bad Company
as Waitress
(1994)
Green Dolphin Beat
as Mai-ling
(1993)
Mood Indigo
as Jenny
(1990)
Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle
as Narrator (voice)
Crew
(2025)
Paying for It
Director, Screenplay, Original Music Composer
(2024)
Rest and Relax
Writer, Director, Producer, Editor, Music, Cinematography
(2020)
Death and Sickness.
Director, Director of Photography
(2018)
Octavio Is Dead!
Director, Writer
(2015)
Whispers and Shoulders
Director
(2013)
Three Movements
Co-Director, Story
(2009)
Year of the Carnivore
Director, Writer, Original Music Composer
(2008)
Toronto Stories
Director, Writer
(2005)
Unlocked
Director, Writer
(2004)
Girl Cleans Sink
Director, Writer
(1990)
Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle
Director, Writer