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Sook-Yin Lee

Acting Vancouver, Canada 24 credits

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.

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Known for

Sliders

as Pat
Film

Shortbus

as Sofia

Full filmography

  • Sliders (1995) as Pat
  • Shortbus (2006) as Sofia
  • Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) as Kwahng-Yi
  • Bad Company (1995) as Waitress
  • 3 Needles (2005) as Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife
  • Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus' (2007) as Sofia
  • Close to You (2024) as Emily
  • Mood Indigo (1993) as Jenny
  • Darkest Miriam (2025) as Susu Leung
  • Boy Meets Girl (1998) as Judy
  • Toronto Stories (2008) as Willia
  • Jack (2013) as Olivia Chow
  • The Art of Woo (2001) as Alessa Woo
  • Green Dolphin Beat (1994) as Mai-ling
  • Endless Cookie (2025) as Radio Announcer
  • 299 Queen Street West (2023)
  • A Fermenting Woman (2024) as Marielle
  • Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band (2008) as Self (archive footage)
  • Death and Sickness. (2020) as Herself
  • Whispers and Shoulders (2015) as Specter
  • Rest and Relax (2024) as Multiple Roles
  • Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle (1990) as Narrator (voice)
  • No Tickets at the Door
  • Five Bucks at the Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls (2019)