Pauline Yeung Yung-Lin

Biography

Pauline Yeung Yung-Lin, known as "Sister Lin," is a Hong Kong film industry tea worker, costume manager, and guest actress. She was born in Guangdong Xinhui and migrated to Hong Kong in 1965. She joined the Hong Kong film industry in the 1980s through her brother, who worked as a film crew coordinator. She began her career in the costume department on film sets and later transferred to the tea department. She has appeared as a guest actress in over thirty Hong Kong films. During the golden era of the Hong Kong film industry in the 1990s, she was responsible for serving tea to more than ten people on a single film set. In 2018, she won the Professional Achievement Award at the 37th Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony, where international superstar Jackie Chan personally presented the award and described her as "behind the scenes behind the scenes," receiving a standing ovation from the entire film industry in recognition of her professional contributions. In 2019, she appeared in the Chinese film "Transformation Crew" in the role of "film crew tea worker." In 2024, a short public welfare drama titled "I Was an Actress in the 80s" based on her life was released.