- Karena Lam
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chinesename = 林嘉欣
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birthplace =Vancouver ,British Columbia ,Canada
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yearsactive = 1995 – present
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hongkongfilmwards = Best New Performer
2002 "July Rhapsody "
Best Supporting Actress
2002 "July Rhapsody "
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goldenhorseawards = Best New Performer
2002 "July Rhapsody "
Best Supporting Actress
2002 "July Rhapsody "
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awards =Karena Lam (
Chinese language : 林嘉欣; Cantonese: Làm Gāyān;pinyin : Lín Jiāxīn; bornAugust 17 ,1978 ) is aHong Kong based award-winningactress andsinger , born inVancouver ,British Columbia ,Canada .Personal life
Karena Lam is 3/4 Chinese and 1/4 Japanese. Her father is from
Hong Kong , while her mother is half-Japanese, half-Chinese fromTaiwan . [http://www.cinemasie.com/en/interviews/lamkayan/lamkayan1EN.php A Conversation with Karena Lam By François (29/04/2003)] ]Career
The Vancouver-born actress, of Chinese and Japanese ancestry, 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 thatChristmas , 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 byAnn Hui (at the 2002Hong Kong Film Awards ) and for "Inner Senses " byLo Chi Leung (at the TaiwanGolden Horse Award s), 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.
Filmography
* "Claustrophobia" (2008)
* "Candy Rain " (2008)
* "Anna & Anna " (2007)
* "Kidnap " (2007)
* "Silk " (2006)
* "Guisi " (2006)
* "Home Sweet Home" (2005)
* "Ah sou " (2005)
* "It Had to Be You! " (2005)
* "Nine Beauties " (2005)
* "Six Strong Guys " (2004)
* "Super Model" (2004)
* "Koma " (2004)
* "Jiu mei hu " (2004)
* "Heroic Duo " (2003)
* "" (2003)
* "The Floating Landscape " (2003)
* "Tiramisu" (2002)
* "Inner Senses " (2002)
* "July Rhapsody " (2002)References
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* [http://www.pinkwork.com/theatre/entrance.htm Karena Lam in pinkwork(sound & video)]
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