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
Acting25
movieBoys Night
2026
Ed's Mom (voice)
movieDarkest Miriam
2025
Susu Leung
movieEndless Cookie
2025
Radio Announcer
movieRest and Relax
2024
Multiple Roles
movieA Fermenting Woman
2024
Marielle
movieDeath and Sickness.
2020
Herself
Jack
2013
Olivia Chow
movieToronto Stories
2008
Willia
moviePansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band
2008
Self (archive footage)
movieShortbus
2006
Sofia
movie3 Needles
2005
Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife
The Art of Woo
2001
Alessa Woo
movieHedwig and the Angry Inch
2001
Kwahng-Yi
movieBad Company
1995
Waitress
movieMood Indigo
1993
Jenny
movieEscapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle
1990
Narrator (voice)
Directing11
moviePaying for It
2025
Director
movieRest and Relax
2024
Director
movieDeath and Sickness.
2020
Director
movieOctavio Is Dead!
2018
Director
Three Movements
2013
Co-Director
movieYear of the Carnivore
2009
Director
movieToronto Stories
2008
Director
Unlocked
2005
Director
Writing9
Sound4
moviePaying for It
2025
Original Music Composer
movieYear of the Carnivore
2009
Original Music Composer
Camera1
movieDeath and Sickness.
2020
Director of Photography
Crew1
movieRest and Relax
2024
Cinematography
Editing1
movieRest and Relax
2024
Editor
Production1
movieRest and Relax
2024
Producer