1978-08-17 ( 46 years old ) in 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.
Movies
Beyond the Sin
2025-01-11
Daughter's Daughter
2024-11-22
Tales of Taipei
2024-08-30
Customs Frontline
2024-06-28
Tales from the Occult: Body and Soul
2023-05-25
Red Line
2023-04-27
Man on the Edge
2022-04-15
American Girl
2021-12-03
Bad Acting
2020-12-04
Legally Declared Dead
2019-11-12
The White Storm 2: Drug Lords
2019-07-04
Integrity
2019-02-05
The Liquidator
2017-12-29
Heaven in the Dark
2016-03-24
Keeper of Darkness
2015-11-26
Zinnia Flower
2015-10-08
Dragon Blade
2015-02-19
Lover's Discourse
2010-11-25
Don Quixote
2010-01-01
Let the Wind Carry Me
2009-11-23
Fit Lover
2008-11-28
Claustrophobia
2008-10-23
Candy Rain
2008-09-12
Happy Funeral
2008-04-24
Anna & Anna
2007-09-26
Kidnap
2007-06-14
Silk
2006-09-28
Home Sweet Home
2005-10-27
Mob Sister
2005-08-04
It Had To Be You
2005-03-04
Six Strong Guys
2004-09-02
Super Model
2004-06-17
Koma
2004-04-27
Moon Wall
2004-01-01
The Floating Landscape
2003-10-16
Heroic Duo
2003-07-31
Truth or Dare : 6th Floor Rear Flat
2003-06-04
Tiramisu
2002-03-28
Inner Senses
2002-03-28
July Rhapsody
2002-03-14
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