Carina Lau
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.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
2046
as Lulu / Mimi / Android
2004
Project A Part II
as Carina
1987
Infernal Affairs II
as Mary Hon
2003
Ashes of Time
as Peach Blossom
1994
Return of the Lucky Stars
as Banana Tso
1989
Saviour of the Soul
as Pet Lady
1991
La Brassiere
as Samantha
2001
She Shoots Straight
as Huang Chia-Ling
1990
Sex and the Beauties
as Selina
2004
Flowers of Shanghai
as Pearl
1998
Crazy Hong Kong
as Shirley Huang
1993
Mighty Baby
as Samantha
2002
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
as Wu Zetian
2010
Days of Being Wild
as Leung Fung-ying
1990
Deadful Melody
as Tam Yuet-Wah
1994
Let the Bullets Fly
as Magistrate's wife
2010
Lord Of East China Sea II
as Lao Liu
1993
All's Well, End's Well 2011
as Tai Mung-ni / Mona
2011
The Eagle Shooting Heroes
as Zhou Botong
1993
Cairo Declaration
2015
