Other Film Work
Lee played the lead character, Alessa Woo, alongside fellow Canadian actor Adam Beach in Helen Lee's debut feature film The Art of Woo (2001). Sook-Yin Lee's feature film directorial debut Year of the Carnivore premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2009. She also stars in and wrote and directed The Brazilian segment of Toronto Stories (2008). Lee also had a part in John Cameron Mitchell's film adaptation of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, playing Kwahng-Yi, a guitarist in Hedwig's rock band made up of Korean-born army wives.
In 2012 she was tapped to play Olivia Chow in the CBC biopic Smilin' Jack: The Jack Layton Story, alongside Rick Roberts as Jack Layton.
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