Sook-Yin Lee
Acting
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 Festiva
🎬 Movies (29)
Boys Night
2026
Ed's Mom (voice)
Darkest Miriam
2025
Susu Leung
Endless Cookie
2025
Radio Announcer
Paying for It
2025
Screenplay
Close to You
2024
Emily
A Fermenting Woman
2024
Marielle
Rest and Relax
2024
Multiple Roles
299 Queen Street West
2023
Death and Sickness.
2020
Herself
Five Bucks at the Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls
2019
Octavio Is Dead!
2018
Director
Whispers and Shoulders
2015
Specter
Jack
2013
Olivia Chow
Three Movements
2013
Story
Year of the Carnivore
2009
Director
Toronto Stories
2008
Willia
Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band
2008
Self (archive footage)
Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'
2007
Sofia
Shortbus
2006
Sofia
3 Needles
2005
Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife
Unlocked
2005
Writer
Girl Cleans Sink
2004
Director
The Art of Woo
2001
Alessa Woo
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
2001
Kwahng-Yi
Boy Meets Girl
1998
Judy
Bad Company
1995
Waitress
Green Dolphin Beat
1994
Mai-ling
Mood Indigo
1993
Jenny
Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle
1990
Narrator (voice)
