Lini Evans is a Canadian singer and actress. She starred alongside
Lacey Chabert
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in the television movie "The Tree That Saved Christmas" which became the highest rated
Up original movie of all-time and was directed by
David Winning
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.
Evans was featured singing her own Japanese version of “
The End of the World” in Season One of the
Amazon Prime
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series ''
The Man in the High Castle
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''. Episode 8 was named after this song and directed by
Karyn Kusama
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.
Among numerous roles on film & TV, she played
Alan Thicke
Alan Thicke (born Alan Willis Jeffrey; March 1, 1947December 13, 2016) was a Canadian actor, songwriter, and game and talk show host. He is the father of singer Robin Thicke. In 2013, Thicke was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. Thicke was be ...
's fiancée in ''
Stop the Wedding
''Stop the Wedding'' is a 2016 American-Canadian made for television romantic comedy film directed by Anne Wheeler and starring Rachel Boston, Niall Matter, Alan Thicke and Lini Evans. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Stephani ...
'',
Nicola Peltz
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's mother Amelia Martin on ''
Bates Motel'', and Debra Harper on ''
Supernatural
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''. She has reprised roles for several successful TV movies.
Residing in
Vancouver
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, B.C. and performing worldwide, Calgary-born Evans sings in eight languages: English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, French, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese. She has performed for Chinese Premier
Zhu Rongji
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, Japanese royalty in Kobe, and in Mandarin with
Han Lei
Han Lei (; born February 23, 1968), also known in Mongolian as Senbor, is a Chinese folk and pop singer-songwriter.
Music Appearance
Han rose to prominence in 1997 on the CCTV New Year's Gala, performing a song called "1997, A.D." (公元一 ...
for the finale duet of the Our Chinese Heart concert at
Rogers Arena
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.
Throughout her career, she has performed with well-known Asian celebrities including
Dashan
Mark Henry Rowswell, CM (born May 23, 1965), better known by his Chinese stage name Dashan (), is a Canadian comedian and television personality popular in China. Relatively unknown in the West, from the late 1980s through the early 2000s Dash ...
,
Andy Lau
Andy Lau Tak-wah (; born 27 September 1961) is a Hong Kong actor, singer-songwriter and film producer. He has been one of Hong Kong's most commercially successful film actors since the mid-1980s, performing in more than 160 films while maint ...
, and
A-Mei
Kulilay Amit (, born 9 August 1972), better known by her stage name A-Mei, is a Taiwanese Puyuma singer and record producer. In 1996, she made her singing debut and released her album, ''Sisters''. Her albums ''Truth'' (2001), ''Amit'' (2009), ...
.
Filmography
References
External links
Official website*
*
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Canadian television actresses
Canadian film actresses
Actresses from Vancouver
Canadian women singers
Canadian voice actresses
Actresses from Calgary
Living people
Musicians from Calgary
Musicians from Vancouver
Year of birth missing (living people)