1. Sook-Yin Lee is a Canadian broadcaster, musician, film director, actress and multimedia artist.
23 Facts About Sook-Yin Lee
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Sook-Yin Lee is a former MuchMusic VJ and a former radio host on CBC Radio.
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Sook-Yin Lee has appeared in films, notably in the John Cameron Mitchell movie Shortbus.
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Sook-Yin Lee is the second daughter of father, Leo Lee, from Hong Kong and a mother from Mainland China, Lee was raised as a devout Roman Catholic.
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Sook-Yin Lee's father was a post-World War II orphan from Hong Kong, and her mother an escapee from Communist China who remained in and out of psychiatric institutions when Lee was young.
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Sook-Yin Lee grew up within a strict, secretive and unstable family.
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When Lee was 15, her parents split up and Lee ran away from home, for a time living on the street before eventually living with a "community of lesbians and artists".
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Sook-Yin Lee often incorporated performance art techniques into the band's melodic rock.
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When that band broke up, Sook-Yin Lee pursued a solo music career, releasing several solo albums and performing as an actor in theatre, film and television projects.
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Sook-Yin Lee was the lead singer for the band Slan.
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Neko Case covered Sook-Yin Lee's song "Knock Loud" on her 2001 EP Canadian Amp.
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Sook-Yin Lee had a relationship with the comic artist Chester Brown from 1992 until 1996.
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Sook-Yin Lee moved to Vancouver for two years to be with her, and moved back to Toronto with her when she became a VJ for MuchMusic.
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Sook-Yin Lee drew the cover for her 1996 solo album Wigs 'n Guns.
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Sook-Yin Lee was later in a relationship with writer and musician Adam Litovitz, who was her frequent artistic collaborator, from 2007 until 2018.
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Sook-Yin Lee became a VJ for MuchMusic in 1995, hosting MuchMusic's alternative music show The Wedge.
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Sook-Yin Lee became the new host of CBC Radio One's Saturday afternoon pop culture magazine radio-show Definitely Not the Opera in 2002.
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In 2016, Sook-Yin Lee hosted the 10 episode summer series Sleepover for CBC Radio, which continued as a podcast until 2018.
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In 2020, Sook-Yin Lee hosted Landscape Artist of the Year Canada, a Canadian adaptation of Landscape Artist of the Year, for Makeful.
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Sook-Yin Lee played the lead character Alessa Woo, alongside fellow Canadian actor Adam Beach, in Helen Sook-Yin Lee's 2001 film The Art of Woo.
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Sook-Yin Lee has a smaller part in John Cameron Mitchell's film Hedwig and the Angry Inch, playing Kwahng-Yi, a guitarist in Hedwig's rock band made up of Korean-born army wives.
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Sook-Yin Lee acted in 3 Needles, a short film about HIV and AIDS.
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In 2014, Sook-Yin Lee choreographed a dance solo for Syreeta Hector as part of On Display for Toronto Dance Theatre.