Karena Lam (; born 17 August 1978) is a

Taiwanese Canadian Taiwanese Canadians are Canadian citizens who carry full or partial ancestry from the East Asian island country of Taiwan or from preceding Taiwanese regimes (Qing Taiwan, Japanese Taiwan, etc.). This includes Canadian-born Taiwanese (CBT). T ...

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 ''Zinnia Flower'' () is a 2015 Taiwanese film starring Karena Lam, Stone, Ko Chia-yen, Umin Boya, Bryan Chang, Nana Lee and Gen Yan Tsai. The film was released on October 8, 2015. It was chosen as the closing film of the Taipei Film Festival i ...

'', 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

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, 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 no ...

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.archived
/ref> Lam is also an artist, curator and ambassador of Le French May. 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. Lam has two daughters, Kaya (b. 2010) and Sofie (b. 2013).

Filmography

Films

This is a partial list of films.

References

External links

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Karena Lam at Chinesemov.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lam, Karena 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