Karena Lam

Karena Lam
Chinese name	林嘉欣
Chinese name	林嘉欣 (traditional)
Chinese name	林嘉欣 (simplified)
Origin	Taiwan
Born	17 August 1978 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Occupation	Actress, singer
Years active	1996—present
Spouse(s)	Steve Yuen (m. 2010)
Children	2
Ancestry	Chaozhou, Guangdong
Awards Hong Kong Film Awards Best New Performer 2002 July Rhapsody Best Supporting Actress 2002 July Rhapsody Golden Bauhinia Awards Best Supporting Actress 2003 July Rhapsody Golden Horse Awards Best New Performer 2002 July Rhapsody Best Supporting Actress 2002 July Rhapsody Best Actress 2015 Zinnia Flower

Karena Lam (Chinese language: 林嘉欣; Cantonese: Làm Gāyān; pinyin: Lín Jiāxīn; born 17 August 1978) is a Taiwanese Canadian, actress and singer based in Hong Kong. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In 2015, she won the Best Actress Award at the Golden Horse Awards for her role in Zinnia flower (百日告別), making her the first person ever to have won all of the following three Golden Horse awards: Best Lead Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best New Performer.^[1]

Personal life

Lam's father is from Hong Kong, while her mother is a Japanese Chinese from Taiwan.^[2] Lam holds Taiwanese citizenship.

Career

Lam was working at her Vancouver family restaurant when she was discovered by a talent scout from Taiwan in 1993, at age fifteen. The scout persuaded her to fly to Taiwan that Christmas, alone, for a singing audition in the hope of securing a professional contract. The audition was a success and she released two albums, her debut album in 1995 and her second album later in 1999. However both were met with modest success.

Her film debut in 2002 changed all this and propelled her to real stardom. Karena starred in three successful Hong Kong films in the same year, winning the awards of Best Supporting Actress and Best New Performer for her role in July Rhapsody directed by Ann Hui (at the 2002 Hong Kong Film Awards) and for Inner Senses by Lo Chi Leung (at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards), gaining her recognition as a talented young actress and marking the start of her film career.

In recent years she took on more challenging roles, such as the 2005 horror film Home Sweet Home, where she plays an insane and deformed "phantom" monster who kidnaps a boy from his kin mother to claim as "its" own. The role earned her numerous nominations for major awards.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Tiramisu	Jane Chan
	Inner Senses	Cheung Yan	Nominated - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress
	July Rhapsody	Choy-Lam	Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actress Hong Kong Film Award for Best New Performer Golden Horse Award for Best New Performer Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actress Golden Bauhinia Award for Best Supporting Actress
2003	Heroic Duo	Brenda
	Truth or Dare: 6th Floor Rear Flat	Karena
	The Floating Landscape	Maan	Nominated - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress
2004	Six Strong Guys 六壯士	Ding Ding
	Super Model 我要做Model	Karena
	Koma	Suen Ling	Nominated - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress
2005	Home Sweet Home	Yim Hung	Nominated - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress
	Mob Sister	Nova	Nominated - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actress
	It Had to Be You!	Jill
2007	Anna & Anna 安娜與安娜	Anna/Siyu
	Kidnap	Lam Hiu-yeung
2006	Silk	Wei
2008	Claustrophobia 親密	Pearl	Ming Pao Anniversary Award for Outstanding Actress in Film Nominated - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress Nominated - Golden Horse Award for Best Actress
	Candy Rain	Ricky
	Fit Lover	Nie Bing
	Happy Funeral 六樓后座2家屬謝禮	(cameo)
2010	Lover's Discourse	Nancy	Nominated - Ming Pao Anniversary Award for Outstanding Actress in Film
2010	Don Quixote
2015	Dragon Blade	Karena
	Keeper of Darkness[3][4]
	Zinnia Flower	Min	Golden Horse Award for Best Actress

References

1. "Taiwan's Karena Lam wins Golden Horse best lead actress". The Central News Agency. Retrieved 27 November 2015.
2. A Conversation with Karena Lam By François (29/04/2003)
3. "Karena Lam". imdb.com. Retrieved April 6, 2010.
4. "Karena Lam". chinesemov.com. Retrieved April 6, 2010.

External links

• Karena Lam at the Internet Movie Database
• Karena Lam in pinkwork(sound & video)