Karena Lam (; born 17 August 1978) is a
Taiwanese Canadian actress and singer based in Hong Kong. In 2015, she won the Best Actress award at the
Golden Horse Awards
The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards () is a film festival and awards ceremony held annually in Taiwan. It was founded in 1962 by the Government Information Office of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan. The awards ceremony is u ...
for her role in ''
Zinnia Flower'', making her the first person ever to have won all of the following three Golden Horse awards: Best Lead Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best New Performer.
Early life
On 17 August 1978, Lam was born in
Vancouver
Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the ...
, British Columbia, Canada. Lam's father is from Hong Kong, while her mother is a Japanese–Chinese from
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
.
Career
Lam is a Hong Kong-based actress and winner of three Golden Horse Awards. Lam's first film was ''Sing Kei Hok Yeuk Kui''
(''Saturday Appointment''), a 1996 Adult Thriller film directed by Sam Ho Shu-Pui.
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French May Arts Festival (藝術節) is an annual arts festival organized by the Association Culturelle France - Hong Kong Limited to promote French art and culture. Events include visual arts, operas, classical and contemporary dance, music and ...
.
As the curator of Le French May 2017 "Celebration of the Arts", she handpicked a selection of iconic French movies for this cinema programme. Exhibitions she curated include Inoue Yuichi Solo Exhibition ‘Hana’ (at agnes b.’s LIBRAIRIE GALERIE, Hong Kong) and Watanabe Mayumi Solo Exhibition ‘Send in the Clowns’ (Librairie Galerie at K11 Art Mall, Hong Kong).
Personal life
Lam married Yuen Kim Wai, an advertising director, in June 2010.
Filmography
Films
This is a partial list of films.
References
External links
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Karena Lam at Chinesemov.com
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1978 births
Living people
Canadian actresses of Taiwanese descent
Canadian people of Taiwanese descent
Taiwanese film actresses
Taiwanese expatriates in Hong Kong
Taiwanese television actresses
Actresses from Vancouver
Musicians from Vancouver
21st-century Taiwanese actresses
Taiwanese people of Japanese descent
Taiwanese people of Hong Kong descent
Canadian actresses of Hong Kong descent
Canadian actresses of Japanese descent
21st-century Taiwanese singers
21st-century Taiwanese women singers
Canadian-born Hong Kong artists
Canadian women curators