# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carina-lau
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:29:36.070Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carina-lau"
name: "Carina Lau"
slug: "carina-lau"
description: "Carina Lau Kar-ling is a Hong Kong actress and singer. She started her acting career at TVB, before achieving success with her girl-next-door roles in the 1980s' Hong Kong films. She is also known for her role as Empress Wu Zetian in Tsui Hark's Detective Dee film series. Lau won Best Actress at the Nantes Three Continents Festival for Days of Being Wild (1990), at the Golden Rooster Awards for Curiosity Kills the Cat (2006), and at the Hong Kong Film Awards for Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010)."
tagline: "Hong Kong actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carina_Lau_at_2026_Shanghai_International_Film_Festival_Closing_Ceremony_Red_Carpet_01_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1965-12-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           56.93
  momentum:             0.3876509398730238
  historical:           22.101992
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/carinalau1208/"
    handle:    "carinalau1208"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/%E5%8A%89%E5%98%89%E7%8E%B2-Carina-Lau-1524393837884758"
    handle:    "劉嘉玲-Carina-Lau-1524393837884758"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0490500/"
    handle:    "nm0490500"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "كارينا لاو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88"
    title: "كارينا لاو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "کارینا لاو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carina_Lau"
    title: "Carina Lau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carina_Lau"
    title: "Carina Lau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carina_Lau"
    title: "Carina Lau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "کارینا لاو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carina_Lau"
    title: "Carina Lau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carina_Lau"
    title: "Carina Lau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carina_Lau"
    title: "Carina Lau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A6"
    title: "カリーナ・ラウ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A5%98%EC%9E%90%EB%A7%81"
    title: "류자링"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carina_Lau"
    title: "Carina Lau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carina_Lau"
    title: "Carina Lau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%83%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Лау, Карина"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%A7_%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B5%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%87"
    title: "หลิว เจียหลิง"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A4"
    title: "کیرینا لاؤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C6%B0u_Gia_Linh"
    title: "Lưu Gia Linh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%88%98%E5%98%89%E7%8E%B2"
    title: "刘嘉玲"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_min_nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A2u_Ka-l%C3%AAng"
    title: "Lâu Ka-lêng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8A%89%E5%98%89%E7%8E%B2"
    title: "劉嘉玲"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8A%89%E5%98%89%E7%8E%B2"
    title: "劉嘉玲"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carina_Lau"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://zh.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E5%8A%89%E5%98%89%E7%8E%B2"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q706219"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12672"
    title: "Carina Lau"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump