
Sook-Yin Lee
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.
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Films
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TV Shows
7
Crew Credits
Known For
20 Credits
Sliders
as Pat
1995

Shortbus
as Sofia
2006

Hedwig and the Angry Inch
as Kwahng-Yi
2001

Darkest Miriam
as Susu Leung
2025

Bad Company
as Waitress
1995

3 Needles
as Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife
2005

Endless Cookie
as Radio Announcer
2025

Close to You
as Emily
2024

Mood Indigo
as Jenny
1993

Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'
as Sofia
2007

Toronto Stories
as Willia
2008

Boy Meets Girl
as Judy
1998





