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

• 2026Boys Night — Ed's Mom (voice)
• 2025Darkest Miriam — Susu Leung
• 2025Endless Cookie — Radio Announcer
• 2025Paying for It — Director, Screenplay, Original Music Composer
• 2024A Fermenting Woman — Marielle
• 2024Close to You — Emily
• 2024Rest and Relax — Multiple Roles, Director, Editor, Writer, Music, Cinematography, Producer
• 2023299 Queen Street West
• 2020Death and Sickness. — Herself, Director, Director of Photography
• 2019Five Bucks at the Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls
• 2018Octavio Is Dead! — Writer, Director, Music
• 2015Whispers and Shoulders — Specter, Director
• 2013Jack — Olivia Chow
• 2013Three Movements — Story, Co-Director
• 2009Year of the Carnivore — Director, Writer, Original Music Composer
• 2008Toronto Stories — Willia, Director, Writer
• 2007Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus' — Sofia
• 2006Shortbus — Sofia
• 20053 Needles — Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife
• 2005Unlocked — Writer, Director
• 2004Girl Cleans Sink — Director, Writer
• 2001Hedwig and the Angry Inch — Kwahng-Yi
• 2001The Art of Woo — Alessa Woo
• 1998Boy Meets Girl — Judy
• 1995Bad Company — Waitress
• Sliders — Pat
• 1994Green Dolphin Beat — Mai-ling
• 1993Mood Indigo — Jenny
• 1990Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle — Narrator (voice), Writer, Director
• No Tickets at the Door

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2008Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band — Self (archive footage)