Lam Wai

Biography

Lam Wai is a Hong Kong actor of mainland Chinese origin, born on October 8, 1954 in Yantai, Shandong Province, mainland China. He grew up in a family where his father ran an import-export company and his mother was an English teacher. During the Cultural Revolution in 1966, his family was classified as one of the "Five Black Categories," and Lam Wai was in the fifth grade of primary school at the time. During his school years, he participated in art troupes and performed in the countryside, and was also skilled in basketball, table tennis, and athletics. In 1978, he moved to Hong Kong to live with his family and enrolled in the second term of Shaw Brothers martial arts actor training class, where he was accepted with his own created fist style. After graduation, he worked as an extra in films and assisted his father in managing a warehouse in Kwai Chung. In 1984, he was discovered by action director Chan Hui-yee at a disco and introduced to director Mak Dong-hung, leading to his role in "Long Arm of the Law" (省港旗兵) as a lead, for which he was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 4th Hong Kong Film Awards in 1985. He participated in television productions for ATV and TVB in the 1990s and early 2000s, and still occasionally works in productions in China and Hong Kong. He is a member of the Hong Kong Stuntman Association. He married in 1986 to a company sales representative, and they had a son in 1987. He gradually faded from the entertainment industry in recent years, returned to his hometown, and has been posting videos about raising pigs online.