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.
Karena Lam Biography / Wiki
| Name | Karena Lam |
| Also Know | Karena Lam, Kar Yan Lam, Karena Lam Ka-Yan, 林嘉欣, ìž„ê°€í” |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Date of Birth | 1978-08-17 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 44 |
| Deathday |
Karena Lam Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Tiramisu | Jane Chan | 2002-03-28 | Is the story of a man, Fung, in his early twenties living his life as a mail-man during the day and a janitor at night. One day, through fate and dest… |
| Anna & Anna | Anna / Siyu | 2007-09-26 | Anna & Anna is a movie about a Singaporean arts saleswoman / alpha female and her subdued doppelganger. Anna One (the arts saleswoman) is very suc… |
| Fit Lover | Nie Bing | 2008-11-28 | This film centers on Nie Bing, a high-profile TV hostess, who is obsessed with trying to find her “ideal man” before her 30th birthday. Nie Bing is gi… |
| Kidnap | Lam Hiu-yeung | 2007-06-14 | Three years ago, drama teacher Lam Hiu Yeung (Karena Lam) lost her younger brother in a kidnapping case, headed by female inspector Ho Yuen Chun (Rene… |
| Mob Sister | Nova | 2005-08-04 | In the macho triad world where heroes are molded from blood, brawn and brains, what place is there for a defenseless girl? The only exception to the r… |
| Claustrophobia | Pearl | 2008-10-23 | Pearl has quietly fallen in love with her boss Tom, who’s married with a family. Without warning, Tom asks Pearl to interview for another job. Wound… |
| Truth or Dare : 6th Floor Rear Flat | Karena | 2003-06-04 | Six Hong Kong roommates vow to each accomplish something daring or wonderful within one year…. |
| Zinnia Flower | Ming | 2015-10-08 | On the same day, in the same accident, Wei loses his pregnant wife and Ming her fiancé. In Buddhism, one is given 100 days to mourn for the dead. Lik… |
| The Floating Landscape | Maan | 2003-10-16 | Maan has recently lost her lover, Sam, a painter who died tragically of an incurable disease. Before his death, he was remembering a beautiful landsca… |
| Heaven in the Dark | Michelle | 2016-03-24 | Michelle and Marco Tol, a former pastor, meet at a party. They discuss what happened five years ago, when a scandal involving the pair erupted and dis… |
| Home Sweet Home | Yim Hung | 2005-10-27 | When an outwardly perfect family moves into a labyrinthine apartment complex with a dark history, their fragile façade soon begins to crumble to the … |
| Bad Acting | 2020-12-04 | Stuffing the face with unimaginable expressions, tears streaming down the cheeks like a waterfall, hysterical cries as if coming from a neurotic….. … | |
| Lover’s Discourse | Nancy | 2010-11-25 | In a crowded city like Hong Kong, former lovers often cross each other’s path. One night, a former couple reunites for one night as they talk about th… |
| Inner Senses | Cheung Yan | 2002-12-31 | This is the story of Yan, a young woman haunted by fleeting images of what she believes to be dead people. Told that it is all in her mind by her psyc… |
| Super Model | Inspector Karena Zhang | 2004-06-17 | Super model Mandom (Ronald Cheng) is very famous in the field. One day, he is threatened by someone, asking him not to attend a model competition. Man… |
| Legally Declared Dead | Ling | 2019-11-12 | When insurance agent Yip Wing-shun (Carlos Chan) is called to visit Tak (Anthony Wong) and Ling’s (Karena Lam) home to follow up on a life insurance… |
| American Girl | Lily Wang | 2021-12-03 | Uprooted from Los Angeles after her mother is stricken with breast cancer, thirteen year old Fen struggles to adjust to life in Taipei. As Fen navigat… |
| Silk | Wei | 2006-09-28 | A scientist uses his invention – the “Menger Sponge” – to capture the energy of a dead child’s spirit in an old building. In trying to determine why t… |
| It Had To Be You | Jill | 2005-03-04 | Restaurant supervisor Jill (Karena Lam) has a handsome boyfriend Chi On (Wu Bing), but she is just his backup girlfriend. She knows she is the other g… |
| Don Quixote | Sang Cuihua | 2010-01-01 | Don Quixote is a 2010 Chinese and Hong Kong film directed by Ah Gan based on Miguel de Cervantes’ 17th-century novel…. |
| July Rhapsody | Woo Choy-lam | 2002-03-14 | Lam Yiu Kwok, a Hong Kong secondary school teacher is facing a mid-life crisis. While he has only his pride and Chinese poetry to fall back on, his pe… |
| Integrity | Kong Suet Yee | 2019-02-05 | The chief investigator of Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) is banking on a key witness, the corporate accountant Jack (N… |
| Customs Frontline | Zhou Zhengli and his boss Zhang Yunnan are working for Hong Kong Customs. When they are investigating an arms smuggling case, the Customs encounter a … | ||
| Heroic Duo | Brenda | 2003-07-31 | Tough cop Ken Li (Cheng) is at the top of his game, but he’s going to need some help to solve a grisly crime that the offender, a respected police off… |
| Let the Wind Carry Me | Herself | 2009-11-23 | Focusing on Mark Lee Ping-bin, one of the most talented and prolific cinematographers in Asia, the movie details the itinerant lifestyle of a deeply o… |
| The Liquidator | Wei Wei | 2017-12-29 | A criminal psychologist and a forensic expert works together to track down a serial killer who targets people who have been acquitted of notable crime… |
| The White Storm 2: Drug Lords | Chow Man-fung | 2019-07-04 | A financial tycoon, once a triad member, tries to eradicate the drug market while an old accomplice aims to be Hong Kong’s first drug lord…. |
| Koma | Suen Ling | 2004-04-27 | A horrid crime was committed at a wedding reception and bridesmaid Chi Ching was the lone eyewitness. At the police station, she recognised the suspec… |
| Candy Rain | Ricky | 2008-09-12 | Four separate vignettes about lesbian relationships and dating, ending with a summation about relationships…. |
| Six Strong Guys | ä¸ä¸ | 2004-09-02 | Four men meet up on the rooftop of an office block for an unusual suicide plan. Driven to the edge by problems and stresses, are going to jump off the… |
| Man on the Edge | 2022-04-15 | On the eve of the 1997 handover, violence is rampant as the British Hong Kong government has joined forces with the triads to cause chaos in Hong Kong… | |
| Happy Funeral | Karena | 2008-04-24 | … |
| Keeper of Darkness | Fatt’s mother | 2015-11-26 | Street-smart exorcist Fatt has an unique method of dealing with vengeful spirits: He negotiates with them and persuades them to let go of their grudge… |
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