Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
Unknown
Place of Birth
Vancouver, Canada
Sook-Yin Lee
Biography
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 (22)
Darkest Miriam
2025
Endless Cookie
2025
Close to You
2024
Rest and Relax
2024
A Fermenting Woman
2024
299 Queen Street West
2023
Death and Sickness.
2020
Five Bucks at the Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls
2019Whispers and Shoulders
2015Jack
2013
Toronto Stories
2008
Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band
2008
Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'
2007
Shortbus
2006
