Sook-Yin Lee

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Sook-Yin Lee

Biography

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.

Known For

Actor

2024
Close to You

as Emily

2024
Rest and Relax

as Multiple Roles

2024
Darkest Miriam

as Susu Leung

2020
2015
2013
Jack

as Olivia Chow

2008
Toronto Stories

as Willia

2006
Shortbus

as Sofia

2005
3 Needles

as Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife

2001
The Art of Woo

as Alessa Woo

2001
1998
1995
Bad Company

as Waitress

1995
Sliders

as Pat

1994
Green Dolphin Beat

as Mai-ling

1993
Mood Indigo

as Jenny

Director

2024
Paying For It

as Director

2024
Rest and Relax

as Director

2020
2018
Octavio Is Dead

as Director

2015
2013
Three Movements

as Co-Director

2009
2008
Toronto Stories

as Director

2005
Unlocked

as Director

2004
Girl Cleans Sink

as Director

Writer

2024
Paying For It

as Screenplay

2024
Rest and Relax

as Writer

2018
Octavio Is Dead

as Writer

2013
2009
2008
Toronto Stories

as Writer

2005
Unlocked

as Writer

2004

Editor

2024
Rest and Relax

as Editor

Sound

2024

Crew

2024
Rest and Relax

as Cinematography

Producer

2024
Rest and Relax

as Producer

Camera

2020
Death and Sickness.

as Director of Photography