Sook-Yin Lee
Sook-Yin Lee (* in Vancouver , British Columbia ) is a Canadian rock singer , radio presenter , film actress , director and screenwriter . She has not yet made public her date of birth.
Life
Sook-Yin Lee is the daughter of a Chinese-born Canadian couple. Her mother was born in the People's Republic of China and her father in Hong Kong . She grew up bilingual ( English and Cantonese ). In the early 1990s she was the lead singer of the Canadian independent rock band Bob's Your Uncle . After their dissolution, she released a solo album in 1994 and 1996 .
She has been a director and screenwriter of television and cinema films and appears as an actress since 1992.
From 1995 to 2001 Sook-Yin Lee was a video jockey at MuchMusic , and since 2002 she has been the presenter on the first English-language radio program of the public broadcaster CBC / Radio-Canada .
She caused a stir with a leading role in John Cameron Mitchell's 2006 film Shortbus , where she had unsimulated, explicitly filmed intercourse with the amateur actor Raphael Barker in front of the camera . The termination initially issued by the CBC was withdrawn after public protests by Francis Ford Coppola , Michael Stipe , Julianne Moore and Yoko Ono .
Discography
- 1994 - Lavinia's Tongue (Zulu Records, Vancouver)
- 1996 - Wigs 'n' Guns (Zulu Records, Vancouver)
Filmography (selection)
actress
- 1998: Boy Meets Girl
- 2000: Island of Shadows
- 2001: The Art of Woo
- 2006: Shortbus
- 2008: Toronto Stories
Director
- 2004: Girl Cleans Sink
- 2005: Unlocked
- 2008: Toronto Stories
- 2009: Year of the Carnivore
Web links
- Sook-Yin Lee in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sook-Yin Lee's film Debut Definitely not CBC Fare ( February 21, 2008 memento on the Internet Archive ) canada.com, May 22, 2006
- Sook-Yin Lee Shocker in Cannes Maclean’s (Canadian weekly magazine), June 2, 2006
- Simon Fraser University's Independent Student Newspaper, Vol. 113, No. 7, Feb. 2003
- Fiona Hughes: The Art of Sook-Yin Lee ( January 15, 2004 memento on the Internet Archive ) The Vancouver Courier, December 10, 2001
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lee, sook-yin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian rock singer, radio presenter, film actress, director, screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada |