Wednesday, 17 August 2016

TAIWAN ACTRESS KARENA LAM BORN 17 AUGUST 1978






TAIWAN ACTRESS KARENA LAM 
 BORN 17 AUGUST 1978





Karena Lam (Chinese language: 林嘉欣; Cantonese: Làm Gāyān; pinyin: Lín Jiāxīn; born 17 August 1978) is a Taiwanese-Canadian, 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: 







Karena Lam
Chinese name林嘉欣
Chinese name林嘉欣 (traditional)
Chinese name林嘉欣 (simplified)
OriginTaiwan
Born17 August 1978 (age 37)
VancouverBritish Columbia,Canada
OccupationActress, singer
Years active1996—present
Spouse(s)Steve Yuen (m. 2010)
Children2
AncestryChaozhouGuangdong











Best Lead Actress, 
Best Supporting Actress and 
Best New Performer.[











Personal life[edit]

Lam's father is from Hong Kong, while her mother is a Japanese Chinese from Taiwan.[2] Lam holds Taiwanese citizenship.

Career[edit]

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[edit]

YearTitleRoleNotes
2002TiramisuJane Chan
Inner SensesCheung YanNominated - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress
July RhapsodyChoy-LamHong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actress
Hong Kong Film Award for Best New Performer
Golden Horse Award for Best New Performer
Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actress
Golden Bauhinia Award for Best Supporting Actress
2003Heroic DuoBrenda
Truth or Dare: 6th Floor Rear FlatKarena
The Floating LandscapeMaanNominated - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress
2004Six Strong Guys
六壯士
Ding Ding
Super Model
我要做Model
Karena
KomaSuen LingNominated - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress
2005Home Sweet HomeYim HungNominated - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress
Mob SisterNovaNominated - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actress
It Had to Be You!Jill
2007Anna & Anna
安娜與安娜
Anna/Siyu
KidnapLam Hiu-yeung
2006SilkWei
2008Claustrophobia
親密
PearlMing Pao Anniversary Award for Outstanding Actress in Film
Nominated - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress
Nominated - Golden Horse Award for Best Actress
Candy RainRicky
Fit LoverNie Bing
Happy Funeral
六樓后座2家屬謝禮
(cameo)
2010Lover's DiscourseNancyNominated - Ming Pao Anniversary Award for Outstanding Actress in Film
2010Don Quixote
2015Dragon BladeKarena
Keeper of Darkness[3][4]
Zinnia FlowerMinGolden Horse Award for Best Actress

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