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.
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Endless Cookie | Radio Announcer | 2025-01-25 |
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Darkest Miriam | Susu Leung | 2025-03-28 |
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Rest and Relax | Multiple Roles | 2024-06-22 |
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A Fermenting Woman | 2024-03-23 | |
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Close to You | Emily | 2024-08-16 |
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299 Queen Street West | 2023-03-13 | |
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Death and Sickness. | Herself | 2020-11-27 |
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Five Bucks at the Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls | 2019-11-01 | |
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Whispers and Shoulders | Specter | 2015-01-01 |
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Jack | Olivia Chow | 2013-03-10 |
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Toronto Stories | Willia | 2008-01-01 |
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Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band | Self | 2008-04-07 |
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Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus' | Sofia | 2007-03-13 |
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Shortbus | Sofia | 2006-10-04 |
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3 Needles | Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife | 2005-09-09 |
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The Art of Woo | Alessa Woo | 2001-09-09 |
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch | Kwahng-Yi | 2001-07-20 |
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Boy Meets Girl | Judy | 1998-09-17 |
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Bad Company | Waitress | 1995-01-20 |
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Green Dolphin Beat | Mai-ling | 1994-06-27 |
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Mood Indigo | Jenny | 1993-01-11 |
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Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle | Narrator (voice) | 1990-01-01 |
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No Tickets at the Door |
