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Aliases: Karena Lam , Kar Yan Lam , Karena Lam Ka-Yan , 林嘉欣 , 임가흔

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Movie Involvements: 25

TV Involvements: 1


Most Famous Work

Biography

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.

Most Famous Work

Golden Horse Awards
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Golden Horse Awards

(1962) Self
Tales of Taipei
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0

Tales of Taipei

(2024) Yu (segment "Breeder")
The White Storm 2: Drug Lords
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6

The White Storm 2: Drug Lords

(2019) Chow Man-fung
Silk
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6

Silk

(2006) Wei
Inner Senses
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6

Inner Senses

(2002) Cheung Yan
Keeper of Darkness
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6

Keeper of Darkness

(2015) Fatt's mother
American Girl
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7

American Girl

(2021) Lily Wang
July Rhapsody
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7

July Rhapsody

(2002) Woo Choy-lam

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2024 N/A
Yu (segment "Breeder")
N/A
2023 N/A
N/A
2022 N/A
2021 Lily Wang
2020 N/A
2019 Shum Chi Ling
Chow Man-fung
Kong Suet Yee
2017 Wei Wei
2016 Michelle
2015 Fatt's mother
Ming
N/A
2014 N/A
2010 Nancy
Sang Cuihua
2009 Self
2008 Nie Bing
Pearl
Ricky
Karena
2007 Anna / Siyu
Lam Hiu Yeung
2006 Wei
N/A
2005 Yim Hung
Nova
Jill
2004 丁丁
Inspector Karena Zhang
Suen Ling
N/A
2003 Maan
Brenda
Karena
2002 Jane Chan
Cheung Yan
Woo Choy-lam
1994 N/A
1962 Self
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Year Character Movie/Tv

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