羅冠蘭

简介

Lo Koon-lan is a Hong Kong actress, theatre director and drama teacher, affectionately known as "冠蘭姐", and is regarded as one of the leading figures in Hong Kong theatre and film. Born in 1956, she graduated from the third cohort of TVB's artist training programme in 1973, alongside classmates such as Chow Yun-fat and Lo Hoi-pang. She earned a history diploma from Hong Kong Baptist College (now Hong Kong Baptist University) between 1973 and 1977, and worked as a secondary school history teacher before joining the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre in 1981, first as a part-time member and then as a full-time contracted actress, eventually rising to principal actress. She has performed in over 100 stage plays with more than 2,000 performances, and has also performed in mainland China, the United States, Canada, Singapore and Taiwan. She studied at The Circle Repertory laboratory in New York and performed in a play directed by Oscar-winning actor William Hurt. She served as an associate professor at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts for over a decade, and led self-discovery workshops at Hong Kong Baptist University and the University of Hong Kong. She was named one of Hong Kong's Ten Outstanding Young Persons in 1994, and won the Best Supporting Actress award at the Hong Kong Film Awards for the film "I Have a Date with Spring" that same year. In 2017, she won several international Best Actress awards for the film "竉我", and received the Best Actress (Tragedy/Serious Drama) award at the Hong Kong Drama Awards for the play "心靈病房", as well as the IATC(HK) Critic's Annual Actor Award.