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.
Acted in 19
2020s
- 2026
Boys Night
Ed's Mom (voice)
- 2025
Endless Cookie
Radio Announcer
Darkest Miriam
Susu Leung
- 2024
Rest and Relax
Multiple Roles
A Fermenting Woman
Marielle
- 2023
299 Queen Street West
Movie
2010s
- 2019
Five Bucks at the Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls
Movie
2000s
- 2008
Toronto Stories
Willia
- 2007
Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'
Sofia
- 2006
- 2005
3 Needles
Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife
- 2001
1990s
- 1998
- 1995
- 1994
- 1993
Mood Indigo
Jenny
No release date
No Tickets at the Door
Movie
Directed 7
2020s
- 2025
Paying for It
Director
- 2024
Rest and Relax
Director
- 2020
Death and Sickness.
Director
2010s
- 2018
2000s
- 2009
Year of the Carnivore
Director
- 2008
Toronto Stories
Director
1990s
- 1990
Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle
Director
Wrote 6
2020s
- 2025
Paying for It
Screenplay
- 2024
Rest and Relax
Writer
2010s
- 2018
2000s
- 2009
Year of the Carnivore
Writer
- 2008
Toronto Stories
Writer
1990s
- 1990
Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle
Writer
Sound 4
2020s
- 2025
Paying for It
Original Music Composer
- 2024
Rest and Relax
Music
2010s
- 2018
2000s
- 2009
Year of the Carnivore
Original Music Composer
Other crew 1
2020s
- 2024
Rest and Relax
Cinematography
Edited 1
2020s
- 2024
Rest and Relax
Editor
Produced 1
2020s
- 2024
Rest and Relax
Producer
Camera 1
2020s
- 2020
Death and Sickness.
Director of Photography
Appearances3
2020s
- 2020
Death and Sickness.
Herself
2000s
- 2008
Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band
Self (archive footage)
1990s
- 1990
Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle
Narrator (voice)