1. Kara Wai Ying-hung BBS is a Hong Kong actress best known internationally for her roles in wuxia films produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio in the 1970s and 1980s.
18 Facts About Kara Wai
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Kara Wai is the inaugural and a three-time recipient of Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress.
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Kara Wai did not continue her education beyond completing primary school.
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Kara Wai performed Chinese dance in a nightclub for three years from age 14 to 17.
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In 2003, with the help of friends and relatives, Kara Wai began to recover.
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In March 2021, Kara Wai expressed her support for cotton produced in Xinjiang after several companies announced they will stop purchasing cotton from the region due to concerns over forced labour from Uyghurs; a move echoed by most Chinese celebrities.
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Kara Wai reached her career apex with My Young Auntie, for which she was earned the Award for Best Actress at the 1st Hong Kong Film Awards.
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In 1987, Kara Wai traveled to Paris, France, to conduct a nude photoshoot for Playboy.
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In 2009, Kara Wai won the 46th Golden Horse Awards for Best Supporting Actress for her role as a possessive mother in At the End of Daybreak.
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Kara Wai made her first mainland TV appearance in the series The Glamorous Imperial Concubine.
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Kara Wai took a pay cut to play Wu Zetian in her next mainland drama, Women of the Tang Dynasty.
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In 2012, Kara Wai officially transferred to the king of the arts and is a contract actress.
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In 2013, Kara Wai signed a one-year drama contract with HKTV.
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Kara Wai won Best Supporting Actress for the Malaysian film The Wedding Diary at the 2013 Golden Wau Awards, a ceremony celebrating Chinese language films in Malaysia.
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In 2014, Kara Wai won the Best Supporting Actress award at the 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards for her film Rigor Mortis.
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In March 2018, Kara Wai won the Excellence In Asian Cinema Award at the 12th Asian Film Awards.
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In 2018, Kara Wai starred as the conservative wife of a closeted transgender woman in Tracey.
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In 2019, Kara Wai earned critical acclaim with her role as Chief Superintendent Man Hei-wah in the TVB crime drama The Defected, for which she won the Best Actress award at the 2019 TVB Anniversary Awards.