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) | ||||||||||||
| Ancestry | Chaozhou, Guangdong | ||||||||||||
| Origin | Taiwan, Republic of China | ||||||||||||
| Born | 17 August 1978 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
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| Occupation | actress, singer | ||||||||||||
| Years active | 1996 – present | ||||||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Steve Yuen (2010 - ) | ||||||||||||
| Children | Kayla Yuen, born on 15 October 2010 | ||||||||||||
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Karena Lam (Chinese language: 林嘉欣; Cantonese: Làm Gāyān; pinyin: Lín Jiāxīn; born 17 August 1978) is a Hong Kong based award-winning actress and singer, born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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[edit] Personal life
Her father is from Hong Kong, while her mother is from Taiwan.[1]
[edit] Career
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.
[edit] Filmography
[edit] References
- ^ A Conversation with Karena Lam By François (29/04/2003)
- ^ "Karena Lam". imdb.com. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1157324/. Retrieved April 6, 2010.
- ^ "Karena Lam". chinesemov.com. http://chinesemov.com/actors/Karena.html. Retrieved April 6, 2010.
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| Awards and achievements | ||
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| Preceded by Cheng Pei-pei for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Supporting Actress 2002 for July Rhapsody |
Succeeded by René Liu for Double Vision |
| Preceded by Qin Hailu for Durian Durian |
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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