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Sook-Yin Lee (born in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian musician, filmmaker, actor and media personality.

Biography

Lee was the lead singer in the 1990s for Bob's Your Uncle, a Vancouver alternative rock band. Lee often incorporated performance art techniques into the band's melodic rock. When that band broke up, Lee pursued a solo music career, releasing several solo albums and performing as an actor in theatre, film and television projects. She is now a singer for the band Slan.Sumi, Glenn, (31 August 2006). Sook-Yin Lee (profile). nowtoronto.com. Retrieved on 2006-08-31.

In 1995, Lee became a VJ for MuchMusic, bringing her theatrical and musical background and her unique creative perspective to the channel. She was best known as the host of MuchMusic's alternative music show, The Wedge. (Now a weekly show, The Wedge was a daily series when Lee hosted.)

After six years, she left MuchMusic in 2001. The following year, she was named as the new host of CBC Radio One's Saturday afternoon pop culture magazine, Definitely Not the Opera.

In the fall of 2004 she produced and hosted a documentary celebrating Terry Fox, as part of the CBC TV series The Greatest Canadian. Fox finished second in the voting to Tommy Douglas, whose advocate was another ex-MuchMusic VJ, George Stroumboulopoulos.

In 2006, she became the centre of controversy when the CBC threatened to fire her for taking a role in John Cameron Mitchell's sexually explicit film Shortbus, in which she performs unsimulated intercourse and masturbation on screen. When their position proved unpopular with the public, and celebrities such as director Francis Ford Coppola, R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe and artist and musician Yoko Ono rallied behind her, the CBC backed down .

Discography

• Tale of Two Legs (1993, with Bob's Your Uncle)
• Cages (1993, with Bob's Your Uncle)
• Lavinia's Tongue (1994)
• Wigs 'n Guns (1996)

Filmography

• Green Dolphin Beat (1994)
• Bad Company (1995)
• Sliders (1995, TV series)
• Boy Meets Girl (1998)
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
• The Art of Woo (2001)
• 3 Needles (2005)
• Shortbus (2006)

Notes

External links

• Sook-Yin Lee's profile as host of DNTO at CBC
• DigitalJournal article on Sook-Yin Lee
• Canadian University Press article from 2003 shortly after Sook-Yin Lee began hosting DNTO
• Sook-Yin Lee on IMDB
• Toronto Life - Interview with Lee about Shortbus
• EconoCulture - Sook-Yin Lee on her character Sofia in Shortbus
• blogTO article on Sook-Yin Lee - Lee on life in Toronto
• [1] - Shortbus official site
• [2]- Sook-Yin Lee's MYSPACE site

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