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
Cast Credits
Darkest Miriam
Character: Susu Leung
MOVIE • 2025
Endless Cookie
Character: Radio Announcer
MOVIE • 2025
Close to You
Character: Emily
MOVIE • 2024
Rest and Relax
Character: Multiple Roles
MOVIE • 2024
A Fermenting Woman
Character: Marielle
MOVIE • 2024
299 Queen Street West
Character:
MOVIE • 2023
Death and Sickness.
Character: Herself
MOVIE • 2020
Five Bucks at the Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls
Character:
MOVIE • 2019
Whispers and Shoulders
Character: Specter
MOVIE • 2015
Jack
Character: Olivia Chow
MOVIE • 2013
Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2008
Toronto Stories
Character: Willia
MOVIE • 2008
Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'
Character: Sofia
MOVIE • 2007
Shortbus
Character: Sofia
MOVIE • 2006
3 Needles
Character: Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife
MOVIE • 2005
The Art of Woo
Character: Alessa Woo
MOVIE • 2001
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Character: Kwahng-Yi
MOVIE • 2001
Boy Meets Girl
Character: Judy
MOVIE • 1998
Sliders
Character: Pat
TV • 1995
Bad Company
Character: Waitress
MOVIE • 1995
Crew
Crew Credits
Paying for It
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2025
Paying for It
Role: Screenplay
MOVIE • 2025
Paying for It
Role: Original Music Composer
MOVIE • 2025
Rest and Relax
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2024
Rest and Relax
Role: Editor
MOVIE • 2024
Rest and Relax
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2024
Rest and Relax
Role: Music
MOVIE • 2024
Rest and Relax
Role: Cinematography
MOVIE • 2024
Rest and Relax
Role: Producer
MOVIE • 2024
Death and Sickness.
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2020
Death and Sickness.
Role: Director of Photography
MOVIE • 2020
Octavio Is Dead!
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2018
Octavio Is Dead!
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2018
Whispers and Shoulders
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2015
Three Movements
Role: Story
MOVIE • 2013
Three Movements
Role: Co-Director
MOVIE • 2013
Year of the Carnivore
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2009
Year of the Carnivore
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2009
Year of the Carnivore
Role: Original Music Composer
MOVIE • 2009
Toronto Stories
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2008