Sook-Yin Lee 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.
2024
as Emily
2024
as Multiple Roles
2024
as Susu Leung
2024
2023
2020
as Herself
2019
2015
as Specter
2013
as Olivia Chow
2008
as Self
2008
as Willia
2007
as Sofia
2006
as Sofia
2005
as Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife
2001
as Alessa Woo
2001
as Kwahng-Yi
1998
as Judy
1995
as Pat
1995
as Waitress
1994
as Mai-ling
1993
as Jenny
1990
as Narrator (voice)