Karena Lam Kar-Yan

Known for ActingBorn 1978-08-17 (age 47)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 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.Read more

Movies & web series

On the Road (Sr. 1)

Golden Horse Awards

The Season

Daughter's Daughter

Let the Wind Carry Me

American Girl

Super Model

It Had To Be You

The White Storm 2: Drug Lords

Legally Declared Dead

Anna & Anna

Dragon Blade

July Rhapsody

Truth or Dare : 6th Floor Rear Flat

The Floating Landscape

Silk

Six Strong Guys

Heaven in the Dark

Red Line

Keeper of Darkness

Home Sweet Home

Customs Frontline

The Liquidator

Keep Running

Inner Senses

Integrity

Beyond the Sin

Lover's Discourse

Koma

Heroic Duo

Tales from the Occult: Body and Soul

Tales of Taipei

Claustrophobia

Man on the Edge

Mob Sister

Zinnia Flower

Don Quixote

Worth the Wait

Tiramisu

Kidnap

Happy Funeral

Candy Rain

Fit Lover

Bad Acting

Moon Wall

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