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Karena Lam

Karena Lam
Lam interviewed by am730 in 2019
Born	(1978-08-17) 17 August 1978 (age 45) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Citizenship	Canada Taiwan[1]
Occupations	Actress singer
Years active	1995–present
Spouse	Steve Yuen ​ ​ (m. 2010; div. 2023)​ [2]
Children	2
Awards	Hong Kong Film Awards – Best New Performer 2002 July Rhapsody Best Supporting Actress 2002 July Rhapsody Golden Bauhinia Awards – Best Supporting Actress 2003 July Rhapsody Golden Horse Awards – Best New Performer 2002 July Rhapsody Best Supporting Actress 2002 July Rhapsody Best Actress 2015 Zinnia Flower
Musical career
Origin	Taiwan
Genres	Mandopop Cantopop
Musical artist
Chinese name
Chinese	林嘉欣
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Lín Jiāxīn Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Lam4 Gaa1 Jan1 Southern Min Hokkien POJ Lîm Ka-him

Karena Lam (Chinese: 林嘉欣; pinyin: Lín Jiāxīn; Jyutping: Lam4 Gaa1 Jan1; Cantonese Yale: Làm Gāyān; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lîm Ka-him; born 17 August 1978) is a Taiwanese Canadian actress and singer based in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

In October 1995, Lam released her debut album Karena (有點想).^[3] In 2015, she won the Best Actress award at the Golden Horse Awards 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.^[4]

On 17 August 1978, Lam was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Lam's father is from Hong Kong, while her mother is a Japanese–Chinese from Taiwan.^[5][6]

Lam is a Hong Kong-based actress and winner of three Golden Horse Awards. Lam's first film was Sing Kei Lok Yeuk Kui (Saturday Appointment), a 1996 Adult Thriller film directed by Sam Ho Shu-Pui.^[5][6][7]

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).^[6]

Lam married Yuen Kim Wai, an advertising director, in June 2010.^[8] Lam has two daughters, Kaya (b. 2010) and Sofie (b. 2013).^[6][8] But they divorced in 2023.

• Karena (1995)
• Unrequited Love (1999)
• Midinight PM 11:30 (2003)
• Dating (2004)

This is a partial list of films.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Karena Lam.

• Karena LamatIMDb
• Karena Lam at the Hong Kong Movie Database
• Karena Lam at Chinesemov.com