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Sook-Yin Lee
Actor, Director, Writer, Producer, Additional Credits
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.
Filmography
| 2025 | Endless Cookie · as Radio Announcer |
| 2024 | Darkest Miriam · as Susu Leung |
| 2023 | Close to You · as Emily |
| 2023 | |
| 2019 | Coroner (TV Series) · as Flora |
| 2013 | Jack · as Olivia Chow |
| 2008 | Toronto Stories · as Willia |
| 2007 | |
| 2006 | |
| 2005 | 3 Needles · as Tong Xiu, The Rice Farmer's Wife |
| 2001 | The Art of Woo · as Alessa Woo |
| 2001 | Hedwig and the Angry Inch · as Kwahng-Yi |
| 1998 | Boy Meets Girl · as Judy |
| 1996 | The Newsroom (TV Series) · as Building Services Coordinating Secretary |
| 1995 | Sliders (TV Series) · as Pat |
| 1995 | Bad Company · as Waitress |
| 1994 | M.A.N.T.I.S. (TV Series) · as Woo Kang |
| 1993 | Relentless: Mind of a Killer · as Jenny |