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Sook-Yin Lee
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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 Mil…
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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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2026
Boys Night
Movie Ed's Mom (voice)
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2025
Endless Cookie
Movie Radio Announcer
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2025
Darkest Miriam
Movie Susu Leung
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2025
Paying for It
Movie Director
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2024
Close to You
Movie Emily
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2024
Rest and Relax
Movie Multiple Roles
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2024
A Fermenting Woman
Movie Marielle
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2023
299 Queen Street West
Movie
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2020
Death and Sickness.
Movie Herself
- 2019
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2018
Octavio Is Dead!
Movie Director
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2015
Whispers and Shoulders
Movie Specter
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2013
Three Movements
Movie Co-Director
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2013
Jack
Movie Olivia Chow
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2009
Year of the Carnivore
Movie Director
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2008
Toronto Stories
Movie Willia
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2008
Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2007
Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'
Movie Sofia
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2006
Shortbus
Movie Sofia
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2005
Unlocked
Movie Director
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2005
3 Needles
Movie Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife
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2004
Girl Cleans Sink
Movie Director
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2001
The Art of Woo
Movie Alessa Woo
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2001
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Movie Kwahng-Yi
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1998
Boy Meets Girl
Movie Judy
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1995
Sliders
TV show Pat
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1995
Bad Company
Movie Waitress
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1994
Green Dolphin Beat
Movie Mai-ling
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1993
Mood Indigo
Movie Jenny
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1990
Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle
Movie Narrator (voice)
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No Tickets at the Door
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