Sook-Yin Lee

Biography

Sook-Yin Lee 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

Shortbus

as Sofia

Sliders

as Pat

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

as Kwahng-Yi

Bad Company

as Waitress

3 Needles

as Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife

Close to You

as Emily

Toronto Stories

as Willia

Darkest Miriam

as Susu Leung

Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band

as Self

Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'

as Sofia