Suzhou-born actress who rose with Hong Kong's TVB in the 1980s and starred in 王家卫's 《阿飞正传》; she later played 武则天 in a Detective Dee film. She married 梁朝伟 in 2008.
Carina Lau played Empress Wu Zetian in Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame.
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She is nicknamed 嘉玲姐, 'big sister Jialing', and 刘总, 'Boss Liu'. She came to acting through TVB's actor training class, which she joined in 1982, four years after she moved from Suzhou to Hong Kong.
