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Born · August 17, 1978 (46 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Karena was working at her Vancouver family restaurant when she was discovered by a talent scout from Taiwan in 1993, at age fifteen. The scout persuaded her to fly to Taiwan that Christmas, alone, for a singing audition in the hope of securing a professional contract. The audition was a success and she released two albums, her debut album in 1995 and her second album later in 1999. However both were met with modest success. Her film debut in 2002 changed all this and propelled her to real stardom. Karena starred in three successful Hong Kong films in the same year, winning the awards of Best Supporting Actress and Best New Performer for her role in July Rhapsody directed by Ann Hui (at the 2002 Hong Kong Film Awards) and for Inner Senses by Lo Chi Leung (at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards), gaining her recognition as a talented young actress and marking the start of her film career. In recent months she has been taking on much more challenging roles, as witnessed in the 2005 horror film Home Sweet Home, where she plays an insane and horribly deformed "phantom" monster who kidnaps a boy from his genetic mother to claim as its own, and was nominated for major awards again.
0.0
2025
8.5
2024
Yu (segment "Breeder")
0.0
2024
Athena Siu
5.2
2024
5.8
2023
Wang Le's wife
5.8
2023
5.0
2022
Lily Wang
6.6
2021
0.0
2020
Shum Chi Ling
6.4
2019
Chow Man-fung
6.4
2019
Kong Suet Yee
5.2
2019
Wei Wei
5.4
2017
Michelle
5.9
2016
Fatt's Mother
5.7
2015
Ming
5.0
2015
6.4
2015
(1 episode)
4.9
2014
Nancy
5.4
2010
Sang Cuihua
4.5
2010
Self
6.4
2009
Nie Bing
3.1
2008
Pearl
4.8
2008
Ricky
4.3
2008
Karena
4.5
2008
Anna / Siyu
6.5
2007
Lam Hiu Yeung
4.9
2007
Wei
6.2
2006
(5 episodes)
10.0
2006
Yim Hung
5.7
2005
Nova
4.6
2005
Jill
6.1
2005
丁丁
4.8
2004
Inspector Karena Zhang
6.4
2004
Suen Ling
5.3
2004
0.0
2004
Maan
5.9
2003
Brenda
5.2
2003
Karena
6.3
2003
Jane Chan
4.4
2002
Cheung Yan
5.8
2002
Woo Choy-lam
6.5
2002
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Self · (1 episode)
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1962