
Sook-Yin Lee
Known for ActingVancouver, Canada
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.Read more
Movies & web series
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Five Bucks at the Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls
2019 · Movie
Green Dolphin Beat
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Green Dolphin Beat
1994 · Movie
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Mood Indigo
1993 · Movie
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Boy Meets Girl
1998 · Movie
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Sliders
1995 · Series
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch
2001 · Movie
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Endless Cookie
2025 · Movie
Jack
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Jack
2013 · Movie
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Paying for It
2025 · Movie
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A Fermenting Woman
2024 · Movie
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Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'
2007 · Movie
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Darkest Miriam
2025 · Movie
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Shortbus
2006 · Movie
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Close to You
2024 · Movie
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3 Needles
2005 · Movie
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299 Queen Street West
2023 · Movie
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Year of the Carnivore
2009 · Movie
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Bad Company
1995 · Movie
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Octavio Is Dead!
2018 · Movie
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Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band
2008 · Movie
Girl Cleans Sink
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Girl Cleans Sink
2004 · Movie
The Art of Woo
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The Art of Woo
2001 · Movie
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Toronto Stories
2008 · Movie

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Boys Night
2026 · Movie

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Rest and Relax
2024 · Movie

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Death and Sickness.
2020 · Movie
Whispers and Shoulders
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Whispers and Shoulders
2015 · Movie
Three Movements
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Three Movements
2013 · Movie
Unlocked
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Unlocked
2005 · Movie

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Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle
1990 · Movie

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No Tickets at the Door
Movie