Director

Sook-Yin Lee

Acting

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Directed credits

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Beginning to build directing work.

TMDB popularity

0.7

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Directed movies: 5Directed series: 0All crew credits: 8

TMDB ID: 19766

IMDb ID: nm0498271

Known for: Acting

Place of birth: Vancouver, Canada

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1990 - 2026

Years active: 37

Average TMDB rating: 6.05

Wikidata: Q462176

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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.