Sook-Yin Lee
- Known for
- Acting
- Place of birth
- Vancouver, Canada
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.
Movies with Sook-Yin Lee
- Shortbus 2006 · ★ 6.3
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2001 · ★ 7.4
- Bad Company 1995 · ★ 5.0
- 3 Needles 2005 · ★ 5.9
- Close to You 2024 · ★ 5.8
- Darkest Miriam 2025 · ★ 6.3
- Endless Cookie 2025 · ★ 6.8
- Toronto Stories 2008 · ★ 3.5
- Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band 2008 · ★ 3.8
- Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus' 2007 · ★ 6.5
- The Art of Woo 2001 · ★ 3.7
- Green Dolphin Beat 1994 · ★ 10.0
- 299 Queen Street West 2023 · ★ 5.0
- Jack 2013 · ★ 7.0
- Mood Indigo 1993 · ★ 9.0
- A Fermenting Woman 2024 · ★ 6.5
- Five Bucks at the Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls 2019 · ★ 10.0
- Boy Meets Girl 1998 · ★ 8.0
- Rest and Relax 2024
- Whispers and Shoulders 2015
- Death and Sickness. 2020
- Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle 1990
- Boys Night 2026
Movies directed by Sook-Yin Lee
- Octavio Is Dead! 2018 · ★ 4.1
- Paying for It 2025 · ★ 6.7
- Year of the Carnivore 2009 · ★ 4.8
- Toronto Stories 2008 · ★ 3.5
- Girl Cleans Sink 2004 · ★ 3.7
- Unlocked 2005 · ★ 4.0
- Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle 1990
- Rest and Relax 2024
- Whispers and Shoulders 2015
- Death and Sickness. 2020