Lam Ka-yee

Biography

Lam Ka-yee is from Dongguan County, Guangdong Province, a Cantonese opera and film actress from Hong Kong. She began learning Cantonese opera with her younger brother Lam Ka-sheng at the age of seven. She appeared in approximately 150 films from the 1940s to the 1960s. On 27 October 1951, she won the "Skating Queen" title at the Hong Kong Open Skating Competition organized by the Chung Sing Charitable Society. After her marriage, in 1957 she made a guest appearance in the film "The Virtuous Maiden" (Lie Nü Chun Xiang) at the invitation of director Liu Fang. In 1954, she was involved in a notable incident when her father Lin Xiangrong stabbed a man named Zheng Huisen with a knife after learning of a romantic relationship between him and his daughter, as well as her pregnancy.