Carina Lau
Acting Born Dec 8, 1966 Suzhou, Jiangsu, China 24 credits
Biography
Carina Lau Kar-Ling (Chinese: 劉嘉玲; born 8 December 1966) is a Hong Kong-Canadian actress and singer. She started her acting career in TVB, before going on to achieve success in films after her 2nd year in college. She was notable in the 1980s for her girl-next-door type roles in films. She also plays Empress Wu Zetian in Tsui Hark's Detective Dee films, starting with Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame in 2010. She has won Best Actress awards at the Hong Kong Film Award and Mainland China's Golden Rooster Awards, and has been nominated at Cannes Film Festival and Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards.
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Full filmography
- Keep Running (2014)
- Trump Card (2016)
- Police Cadet (1984) as 張嘉汶 (Carmen) Cheung Ka Man
- The Legend of the Condor Heroes (1983) as 華箏婢女
- Super Brain (2014)
- Roast (2017)
- The 40th Anniversary of Chinese Film Since China's Reform and Opening-Up (2018)
- The Duke of Mount Deer (1984) as Fong Yee
- The Turbulent Decade (1986)
- When the Sun Shines (1990)
- The Modern Love Story (1992)
- 歷年TVB台慶經典回顧 (1968)
- My Father's Son (1988)
- Big Little Man (1992)
- Armour of God (1986) as Member of The Losers (uncredited)
- The Feud of Two Brothers (1986) as Lin Yueming
- Looking Back in Anger (1989) as Ni Chujun
- Take Care Your Highness (1985)
- The Yang's Saga (1985) as Princess Chai
- Warriors of Future (2022) as Colonel Tam Bing
- Here Comes A Hero (1989)
- CHEF of CHINA (2025)
- The Blooming Journey (2025) as Self
- Infernal Affairs II (2003) as Mary