Sook-Yin Lee
- Known for
- Acting
- Birthplace
- Vancouver, Canada
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
No Tickets at the Door TBA
Actor
Boys Night 2026
as Ed's Mom (voice)
Endless Cookie 2025
as Radio Announcer
Darkest Miriam 2025
as Susu Leung
Paying for It 2025
Director, Screenplay, Original Music Composer
Close to You 2024
as Emily
Rest and Relax 2024
as Multiple Roles, Writer, Director, Producer, Editor, Music, Cinematography
A Fermenting Woman 2024
as Marielle
299 Queen Street West 2023
Actor
Death and Sickness. 2020
as Herself, Director, Director of Photography
Five Bucks at the Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls 2019
Actor
Octavio Is Dead! 2018
Director, Writer, Original Music Composer
- Whispers and Shoulders
Whispers and Shoulders 2015
as Specter, Director
- Three Movements
Three Movements 2013
Co-Director, Story
- Jack
Jack 2013
as Olivia Chow
Year of the Carnivore 2009
Director, Writer, Original Music Composer
Toronto Stories 2008
as Willia, Director, Writer
Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band 2008
as Self (archive footage)
Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus' 2007
as Sofia
Shortbus 2006
as Sofia
- Unlocked
Unlocked 2005
Director, Writer
3 Needles 2005
as Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife
- Girl Cleans Sink
Girl Cleans Sink 2004
Director, Writer
- The Art of Woo
The Art of Woo 2001
as Alessa Woo
Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2001
as Kwahng-Yi
Boy Meets Girl 1998
as Judy
Bad Company 1995
as Waitress
Green Dolphin Beat 1994
as Mai-ling
Mood Indigo 1993
as Jenny
Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle 1990
as Narrator (voice), Director, Writer
Credits from TMDB.