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Karena Lam Kar-Yan

Karena 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 months she has been taking on much more challenging roles, as witnessed in the 2005 horror film Home Sweet Home, where she plays an insane and horribly deformed "phantom" monster who kidnaps a boy from his genetic mother to claim as its own, and was nominated for major awards again.


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Born:
Aug 17, 1978 In Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Movie/TV Credits:
34
First Appeared:
In the movie July Rhapsody 2002-03-14
Latest Project:
Movie Tales of Taipei 2024-08-30
Known For
Poster of Dragon Blade
Poster of Home Sweet Home
Poster of Mob Sister
Poster of Six Strong Guys
Filmography
Movie Worth the Wait 2024
Movie Tales of Taipei Yu (segment "Breeder") 2024-08-30
Movie Red Line Wang Le's wife 2023-04-27
Movie Tales From The Occult: Body and Soul 2023-05-25
Movie American Girl Lily Wang 2021-12-03
Movie The White Storm 2: Drug Lords Chow Man-fung 2019-07-04
Movie Legally Declared Dead Shum Chi Ling 2019-11-12
Movie The Liquidator Wei Wei 2017-12-29
Movie Heaven in the Dark Michelle 2016-03-24
Movie Keeper of Darkness Fatt's Mother 2015-11-26
Movie Dragon Blade 2015-02-19
Movie Zinnia Flower Ming 2015-10-08
Movie Don Quixote Sang Cuihua 2010-01-01
Movie Lover's Discourse Nancy 2010-11-25
Movie Let the Wind Carry Me Self 2009-11-23
Movie Candy Rain Ricky 2008-09-12
Movie Happy Funeral Karena 2008-04-24
Movie Claustrophobia Pearl 2008-10-23
Movie Fit Lover Nie Bing 2008-11-28
Movie Kidnap Lam Hiu Yeung 2007-06-14
Movie Anna & Anna Anna / Siyu 2007-09-26
Movie Silk Wei 2006-09-28
Movie It Had To Be You Jill 2005-03-04
Movie Mob Sister Nova 2005-08-04
Movie Home Sweet Home Yim Hung 2005-10-27
Movie Koma Suen Ling 2004-04-27
Movie Six Strong Guys 丁丁 2004-09-02
Movie Super Model Inspector Karena Zhang 2004-06-17
Movie Heroic Duo Brenda 2003-07-31
Movie Truth or Dare : 6th Floor Rear Flat Karena 2003-06-04
Movie The Floating Landscape Maan 2003-10-16
Movie July Rhapsody Woo Choy-lam 2002-03-14
Movie Tiramisu Jane Chan 2002-03-28
Movie Inner Senses Cheung Yan 2002-03-28
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