born 1960 · Acting
56.8avg grm
8titles
4honors
Honors
42014Hong Kong Film Award — Best Supporting Actress
2010Asian Film Award — Best Supporting Actress
2010Hong Kong Film Award — Best Actress
2009Golden Horse Award — Best Supporting Actress
Bio
Kara Wai Ying-Hung (Chinese: 惠英紅, born 2 February 1960), also romanised as Kara Hui, is a Hong Kong actress of Manchu ethnicity. Known to the international audience for her kung-fu roles in Shaw Brothers Studio films in the 1970s and 1980s, Kara Wai has since portrayed a wide range of roles on screen and on television with much success. In 1982, she became the first recipient of the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress. Her portrayal of a mother in the 2009 film At the End of Daybreak won her acting awards at the Hong Kong Film Awards, Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards, Changchun Film Festival, Pacific Meridian, Asian Film Awards and Golden Horse Awards.
Filmography
ranked on this site2020s1 title
L
Love Never Ends2023 · as Li Huiru57.82010s2 titles
B
The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful2017 · as Madame Tang56.4H
Happiness2016 · as Auntie Fen58.11980s4 titles
R
Rouge1987 · as Actress Portraying Ghost56.3E
The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter1984 · as Yang Ba-Mei - 8th Sister57.2M
Martial Club1981 · as Wang Chu-Ying57.3F
Fists of the White Lotus1980 · as Mei-Hsiao55.31970s1 title
D
Dirty Ho1979 · as Tsui Hung55.9