Sook-Yin Lee
Birthday: | Place of Birth: Vancouver, CanadaSook-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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Susu Leung
as Emily
as Marielle
as Herself
as Olivia Chow
as Willia
as Sofia
as Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife
as Alessa Woo
as Judy
as Narrator (voice)
