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Karena Lam

Karena Lam

Birthday: 1978-08-17 | Place of Birth: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2021
American Girl

as    Lily Wang

2019
The White Storm 2: Drug Lords

as    Chow Man-fung

2019
Integrity

as    Kong Suet Yee

2010
Lover's Discourse

as    Nancy

2009
Let the Wind Carry Me

as    Herself

2008
Claustrophobia

as    Pearl

2007
Anna & Anna

as    Anna / Siyu

2007
Kidnap

as    Lam Hiu Yeung

2006
Silk

as    Wei

2005
Home Sweet Home

as    Yim Hung

2004
Koma

as    Suen Ling

2003
Heroic Duo

as    Brenda

2003
2003
The Floating Landscape

as    Maan

2002
Inner Senses

as    Cheung Yan

2002
Tiramisu

as    Jane Chan

2002
July Rhapsody

as    Woo Choy-lam