Karena Lam Kar-Yan
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
Credits
- 2024 · Daughter's Daughter as
- 2024 · Tales of Taipei as Yu (segment "Breeder")
- 2024 · Customs Frontline as
- 2023 · Tales From The Occult: Body and Soul as
- 2023 · Red Line as Wang Le's wife
- 2022 · Man on the Edge as
- 2021 · American Girl as Lily Wang
- 2020 · Bad Acting as
- 2019 · Legally Declared Dead as Shum Chi Ling
- 2019 · The White Storm 2: Drug Lords as Chow Man-fung
- 2019 · Integrity as Kong Suet Yee
- 2017 · The Liquidator as Wei Wei
- 2016 · Heaven in the Dark as Michelle
- 2015 · Keeper of Darkness as Fatt's mother
- 2015 · Zinnia Flower as Ming
- 2015 · Dragon Blade as
- 2014 · Keep Running as
- 2010 · Lover's Discourse as Nancy
- 2010 · Don Quixote as Sang Cuihua
- 2009 · Let the Wind Carry Me as Self
- 2008 · Fit Lover as Nie Bing
- 2008 · Claustrophobia as Pearl
- 2008 · Candy Rain as Ricky
- 2008 · Happy Funeral as Karena
- 2007 · Anna & Anna as Anna / Siyu
- 2007 · Kidnap as Lam Hiu Yeung
- 2006 · Silk as Wei
- 2006 · On the Road (Sr. 1) as
- 2005 · Home Sweet Home as Yim Hung
- 2005 · Mob Sister as Nova
- 2005 · It Had To Be You as Jill
- 2004 · Six Strong Guys as 丁丁
- 2004 · Super Model as Inspector Karena Zhang
- 2004 · Koma as Suen Ling
- 2003 · The Floating Landscape as Maan
- 2002 · Inner Senses as Cheung Yan
- 2002 · Tiramisu as Jane Chan
- 1962 · Golden Horse Awards as Self
- Future · Beyond the Sin as
- 2002 · July Rhapsody as Woo Choy-lam
- Future · Worth the Wait as
- 2004 · Moon Wall as
- 2003 · Heroic Duo as Brenda
- 2003 · Truth or Dare : 6th Floor Rear Flat as Karena