Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 8, 1966 (age 60)
Place of Birth
Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
Also Known As
- Jialing Liu
- Carina Liu
- Lau Ka Ling
- Kar-Ling Lau
- Carina Lau Kar-ling
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.
Known For - Movies
Warriors of Future
as Colonel Tam Bing
Armour of God
as Member of The Losers (uncredited)
The Banquet
as Dancer / Woman at Dinner
Project A Part II
as Carina
Days of Being Wild
as Leung Fung-ying
Let the Bullets Fly
as Magistrate's wife
Ashes of Time
as Peach Blossom
2046
as Lulu / Mimi / Android
Infernal Affairs II
as Mary Hon
Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings
as Wu Zetian
