Sook-Yin Lee (born in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a female Canadian musician, actor and media personality.
Lee was the lead singer in the 1980s and early 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. However, CBC management relented when their position proved unpopular with CBC listeners.
Lee adds that she discovered yet another aspect of herself in Alessa, whose shame that her parents, immigrants from southeast Asia, run a convenience store fuels her desire to become somebody else.
But though Lee now realizes just how much she differs from her cartoonish TV image, she says she still meets people who expect the two to be identical, and are disappointed to learn otherwise.
Lee is currently in a "state of flux," trying to figure out her next career move.
Fear of sex is at the root of many problems that aren't directly connected to sex," he told reporters, adding that there is more violence in "erotophobic" countries.
He quoted Yoko Ono, who wrote a letter to CBC supporting Lee, which read, "If people were having better sex there would be less war."
The movie -- which was developed in workshops among actors who improvised scenes -- includes heterosexual couples seeking connections, homosexual couples looking for love, and even some threesomes; in one case, three gay men in a menage-a-trois stop to sing the American national anthem.
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