Acting · Vancouver, Canada
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.
MovieBoys Night
2026
as Ed's Mom (voice)
MovieDarkest Miriam
2025
as Susu Leung
MovieEndless Cookie
2025
as Radio Announcer
MovieClose to You
2024
as Emily
MovieRest and Relax
2024
as Multiple Roles
MovieA Fermenting Woman
2024
as Marielle
Movie299 Queen Street West
2023
MovieDeath and Sickness.
2020
as Herself
MovieFive Bucks at the Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls
2019
Whispers and Shoulders
2015
as Specter
Jack
2013
as Olivia Chow
MovieToronto Stories
2008
as Willia
MoviePansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band
2008
as Self (archive footage)
MovieGifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'
2007
as Sofia
MovieShortbus
2006
as Sofia
Movie3 Needles
2005
as Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife
The Art of Woo
2001
as Alessa Woo
MovieHedwig and the Angry Inch
2001
as Kwahng-Yi
MovieBoy Meets Girl
1998
as Judy
TVSliders
1995
as Pat
MovieBad Company
1995
as Waitress
Green Dolphin Beat
1994
as Mai-ling
MovieMood Indigo
1993
as Jenny
MovieEscapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle
1990
as Narrator (voice)
MovieNo Tickets at the Door
