Carina Lau

Acting · Born 1966-12-08 in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

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.

Filmography

• 2046 as Lulu / Mimi / Android
• Project A Part II as Carina
• Infernal Affairs II as Mary Hon
• Ashes of Time as Peach Blossom
• Days of Being Wild as Leung Fung-ying
• Let the Bullets Fly as Magistrate's wife
• Armour of God as Member of The Losers (uncredited)
• Infernal Affairs III as Mary Hon
• Warriors of Future as Colonel Tam Bing
• Return of the Lucky Stars as Banana Tso

TV

• Middle Aged Fancy
• Hero Without Tears - II
• The Shanghai Conspiracy
• Behind Silk Curtains
• My Father's Son
• The Yang's Saga as Princess Chai
• Police Cadet as 張嘉汶 (Carmen) Cheung Ka Man
• The Legend of the Condor Heroes as 華箏婢女
• The Modern Love Story
• Looking Back in Anger as Ni Chujun