Sook-Yin Lee
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Promotional image of Sook-Yin Lee as host of CBC's DNTO. |
Sook-Yin Lee (born in
Vancouver,
British Columbia) is a female
Canadian musician,
filmmaker,
actor and
media personality.
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.
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 retired from 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 early
2004, 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 pereforms 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.
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.
Lee has also identified as
bisexual.
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Tale of Two Legs (
1993, with
Bob's Your Uncle)
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Cages (
1993, with
Bob's Your Uncle)
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Lavinia's Tongue (
1994)
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Wigs 'n Guns (
1996)
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Green Dolphin Beat (
1994)
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Bad Company (
1995)
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Sliders (
1995, TV series)
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Boy Meets Girl (
1998)
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch (
2001)
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The Art of Woo (
2001)
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3 Needles (
2005)
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Shortbus (scheduled for release in
2006)
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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
