Carina Lau Kar-Ling

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

2046

as Lulu / Mimi

Armour of God

as Member of The Losers Band

Days of Being Wild

as Leung Fung-ying

Warriors of Future

as Colonel Tam Bing

Infernal Affairs II

as Mary Hon

Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame

as Wu Zetian (The Empress)

Ashes of Time

as Peach Blossom

Infernal Affairs III

as Mary Hon

Let the Bullets Fly

as Magistrate's wife

Project A: Part II

as Carina