27 Facts About Carina Lau

Carina Lau Kar-ling is a Hong Kong-Canadian actress and singer.

Carina Lau started her acting career in TVB, before going on to achieve success in films after her 2nd year in college.

Carina Lau was notable in the 1980s for her girl-next-door type roles in films.

Carina Lau plays Empress Wu Zetian in Tsui Hark's Detective Dee films, starting with Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame in 2010.

Carina Lau 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.

Carina Lau's husband is Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai.

Carina Lau was born on 1965 in Suzhou, Jiangsu, with her ancestral home in Rong County, Guangxi, to Liu Guiming and Wang Fumei.

Carina Lau's father, Liu Guiming, was born in Thailand on 1940.

Carina Lau's father returned to China in 1955 and with the help of All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, he studied at a junior high school in Guangzhou and high school in Suzhou.

Carina Lau's father moved to Hong Kong in 1976, while Carina Lau moved to Hong Kong with her mother and brother in 1978, and joined TVB's acting class in 1983.

Carina Lau made her on-screen debut in TVB's The Clones where she starred opposite of her future husband, Tony Leung.

Carina Lau gained wider recognition after a series of appearances in successful drama series such as The Duke of Mount Deer and Police Cadet and skyrocketed to fame following her role as a wealthy heiress in one of Hong Kong's most-watched ever series, Looking Back in Anger.

Carina Lau was nominated at the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress for her role in Her Beautiful Life Lies.

Carina Lau received acclaim for her role in Days of Being Wild, one of her many collaborations with film director Wong Kar-wai.

Carina Lau won rave reviews for her performances as unhappily-married Rose in the low-budget thriller Curiosity Kills the Cat and as Wu Zetian in the blockbuster Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, which earned her a Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress and a Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress, respectively.

Carina Lau reprised her role as Wu Zetian in two Detective Dee prequels.

Carina Lau received a Best Actress nomination at the Cannes Film Festival for her role as a rich housewife abandoned by her husband in Bends.

In 2016, Carina Lau was one of the celebrities that appeared on the Chinese reality show Up Idol.

Carina Lau was executive president of Hong Kong's TVMART channel, but was replaced by the board after a loss of 40 million Taiwan Dollars.

Carina Lau told the media that because she had no education, the decisions made by her had some negative influences on the company.

In 1990, during the filming of Days of Being Wild, Carina Lau was abducted for several hours, and topless photos of her were taken.

Tony Leung Chiu-wai has said that Carina Lau never wanted to talk about what happened in those missing hours with anyone, including him.

Carina Lau revealed in 2008 that she was abducted by four men working for a triad boss, as "punishment" for having refused a film offer.

Carina Lau said that she had not been taken advantage of during her two-hour ordeal.

Carina Lau appeared in front of the crowd and she was given support from groups, but she had never directly acknowledged that she is the person in the photo.

Carina Lau had a relationship with Hong Kong tycoon Julian Hui from 1986 to 1988.

Carina Lau has been in a relationship with Tony Leung Chiu-wai since 1989, after working together on a Hong Kong production of Run For Your Wife.