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Karena Lam Kar-Yan
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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…
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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.
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2026
The Season
TV show Fiona Hext
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2025
Worth the Wait
Movie Teresa
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2025
Beyond the Sin
Movie Bo Kwan
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2024
Daughter's Daughter
Movie Emma
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2024
Tales of Taipei
Movie Yu (segment "Breeder")
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2024
Customs Frontline
Movie Athena Siu
- 2023
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2023
Red Line
Movie Wang Le's wife
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2022
Man on the Edge
Movie Mrs Lam
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2021
American Girl
Movie Lily Wang
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2020
Bad Acting
Movie
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2019
Legally Declared Dead
Movie Shum Chi Ling
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2019
The White Storm 2: Drug Lords
Movie Chow Man-fung
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2019
Integrity
Movie Kong Suet Yee
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2017
The Liquidator
Movie Wei Wei
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2016
Heaven in the Dark
Movie Michelle
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2015
Keeper of Darkness
Movie Fatt's Mother
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2015
Zinnia Flower
Movie Ming
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2015
Dragon Blade
Movie
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2014
Keep Running
TV show
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2010
Lover's Discourse
Movie Nancy
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2010
Don Quixote
Movie Sang Cuihua
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2009
Let the Wind Carry Me
Movie Self
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2008
Fit Lover
Movie Nie Bing
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2008
Claustrophobia
Movie Pearl
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2008
Candy Rain
Movie Ricky
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2008
Happy Funeral
Movie Karena
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2007
Anna & Anna
Movie Anna / Siyu
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2007
Kidnap
Movie Lam Hiu Yeung
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2006
Silk
Movie Wei
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2006
On the Road (Sr. 1)
TV show
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2005
Home Sweet Home
Movie Yim Hung
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2005
Mob Sister
Movie Nova
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2005
It Had To Be You
Movie Jill
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2004
Six Strong Guys
Movie 丁丁
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2004
Super Model
Movie Inspector Karena Zhang
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2004
Koma
Movie Suen Ling
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2004
Moon Wall
Movie
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2003
The Floating Landscape
Movie Maan
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2003
Heroic Duo
Movie Brenda
