Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 17, 1978
Place of Birth
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Credits
46 titles
Karena Lam Kar-Yan
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Season
Fiona Hext
Worth the Wait
Teresa
Beyond the Sin
Bo Kwan
Daughter's Daughter
Emma
Tales of Taipei
Yu (segment "Breeder")
Customs Frontline
Athena Siu
Tales from the Occult: Body and Soul
Red Line
Wang Le's wife
Man on the Edge
Mrs Lam
American Girl
Lily Wang
Bad Acting
Legally Declared Dead
Shum Chi Ling
The White Storm 2: Drug Lords
Chow Man-fung
Integrity
Kong Suet Yee
The Liquidator
Wei Wei
Heaven in the Dark
Michelle
Keeper of Darkness
Fatt's Mother
Zinnia Flower
Ming
Dragon Blade
Keep Running
Lover's Discourse
Nancy
Don Quixote
Sang Cuihua
Let the Wind Carry Me
Self
Fit Lover
Nie Bing
Claustrophobia
Pearl
Candy Rain
Ricky
Happy Funeral
Karena
Anna & Anna
Anna / Siyu
Kidnap
Lam Hiu Yeung
Silk
Wei
On the Road (Sr. 1)
Home Sweet Home
Yim Hung
Mob Sister
Nova
It Had To Be You
Jill
Six Strong Guys
丁丁
Super Model
Inspector Karena Zhang
Koma
Suen Ling
Moon Wall
The Floating Landscape
Maan
Heroic Duo
Brenda
Truth or Dare : 6th Floor Rear Flat
Karena
Inner Senses
Cheung Yan
Tiramisu
Jane Chan
July Rhapsody
Woo Choy-lam
Golden Horse Awards
Self
1971