Karena Lam
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| Karena Lam | |||||||||||||
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| 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 |
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| Occupation | Actress, singer | ||||||||||||
| Years active | 1996—present | ||||||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Steve Yuen (m. 2010) | ||||||||||||
| Children | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Ancestry | Chaozhou, Guangdong | ||||||||||||
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Karena Lam (Chinese language: 林嘉欣; Cantonese: Làm Gāyān; pinyin: Lín Jiāxīn; born 17 August 1978) is a Taiwanese 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
References
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| Awards and achievements | ||
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| Preceded by | Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Supporting Actress 2002 for July Rhapsody |
Succeeded by Rene Liu for Double Vision |
| Preceded by | Hong Kong Film Awards for Best New Performer 2002 for July Rhapsody |
Succeeded by Eugenia Yuan for Three |
| Preceded by
Josie Ho
for Forever and Ever |
Golden Bauhinia Awards for Best Supporting Actress 2003 for July Rhapsody |
Succeeded by Maggie Siu for PTU |
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- 1978 births
- Living people
- Canadian actresses of Asian descent
- Canadian people of Chinese descent
- Canadian people of Taiwanese descent
- Taiwanese female singers
- Taiwanese film actresses
- Taiwanese expatriates in Hong Kong
- Taiwanese television actresses
- Actresses from Vancouver
- Musicians from Vancouver
- 21st-century Taiwanese actresses
- Taiwanese people of Japanese descent
- Canadian people of Japanese descent
- Best Supporting Actress Hong Kong Film Award winners
- Best New Performer HKFA
