Lam Suet
Lam Suet | |
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Born | Lin Jie (Lam Chit, 林捷) 8 July 1964 |
Awards | Golden Bauhinia Awards – Best Supporting Actor 2003 PTU |
Lam Suet (Chinese: 林雪; born 1964), or Lin Xue, is a Hong Kong film actor.[1][2]
Life and career[]
Lam was born in Tianjin, and came to Hong Kong as a youth in 1979 to receive inheritance money left by his grandfather. Soon after, all the money had been squandered and Lam had to work various odd jobs to make a living.
In the mid-eighties he got employment on movie sets through the help of friends. He has done different roles, from lighting and props to stage manager and set and script supervisor.
Lam gradually developed an interest in acting and by his own account, pestered various directors until they relented and gave him tiny roles. There are two pivotal persons in Lam's acting career. The first is Stephen Chow, who befriended him in his early days as a crew member and cast him in movies like The God of Cookery (1996) and Kung Fu Hustle.
The second person is director Johnnie To. Lam has been in over 80 films since 1996 and at least 20 of those have been directed or produced by To.
Known for his weight and size, his roles are often as a bumbling secondary character providing comic relief from the most intense nature of To's films. He is perhaps most famous for his various supporting roles in To's films, notably as the bumbling taxi driver Yip in the award-winning film Breaking News (2004).
The most notable To-Lam collaborations include The Mission, which garnered Lam Best Supporting Actor nominations at the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Golden Horse Award, and PTU. Lam was nominated for a Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor and took home the Golden Bauhinia Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in PTU. He has also had interesting roles in movies like Wu yen (2001), as the effeminate Prime Minister, and in (2003), in which he played Charlene Choi's loving and supportive father. Lam has been married for almost a decade. His wife is 10 years his junior and is from the same hometown.
Filmography[]
- Story of Ricky (1992)
- The God of Cookery (1996)
- Lifeline (1997) (extra)
- (1997)
- (1997)
- Intruder
- The Longest Nite (1998)
- Expect the Unexpected (1998)
- A Hero Never Dies (1998)
- (1999)
- Running Out of Time (1999)
- The Mission
- (2000)
- (2000)
- Fist Power (2000)
- Roaring Wheels (2000)
- (2000)
- (2000)
- (2000)
- (2000)
- (2000)
- (2000)
- (2001)
- Wu yen (2001)
- (2001)
- (2001)
- (2001)
- (2001)
- (2001)
- (2001)
- (2001)
- Goodbye Mr. Cool (2001)
- (2001)
- Love on a Diet (2001)
- Fulltime Killer (2001)
- (2001)
- You Shoot, I Shoot (2001)
- (2001)
- (2001)
- Running Out of Time 2 (2001)
- U-Man (2002)
- (2002)
- (2002)
- Devil Face Angel Heart (2002)
- My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (2002)
- (2002)
- Just One Look (2002)[cameo]
- (2002)
- (2002)
- (2002)
- Love For All Seasons (2003)
- (2003)
- (2003)
- (2003)
- PTU (2003)
- The Trouble-Makers (2003)[V]
- (2003)
- (2003)
- Good Times, Bed Times (2003)
- Men Suddenly in Black (2003)
- (JAPAN 2003)
- (2003)
- Turn Left, Turn Right (2003)
- (2004)
- (2004)
- (2004)
- (2004)
- (2004)
- Jiang Hu (2004)
- Moving Targets (2004)
- One Nite in Mongkok (2004)
- Breaking News (2004)
- (2004)
- (2004)
- (2004)
- (2004)
- (2004)
- Twinkle Stars (2005)
- My Baby Shot Me Down (2004)
- Explosive City (2004)
- (2004)
- Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
- Twinkle Stars (2005)
- (2005)
- (2005)
- Divergence (2005)
- 2 Young (2005)
- The Unusual Youth (2005)
- Election (2005)
- All About Love (2005)
- Home Sweet Home (2005)
- My Kung-Fu Sweetheart (2006)
- 2 Become 1 (2006)
- (2006)
- Election 2 (a.k.a. Triad Election) (2006)
- Love @ First Note (2006)
- Dog Bite Dog (2006)
- (2006)
- Fatal Contact (2006)
- Exiled (2006)
- (2006)
- (2007)
- Forest of Death (2007)
- Eye in the Sky (2007)
- Dancing Lion (2007)
- Gong Tau: An Oriental Black Magic (2007)
- (2007)
- Invisible Target (2007)
- (2007)
- Brothers (2007)
- Triangle (2007)
- Mad Detective (2007)
- Linger (2008)
- Fatal Move (2008)
- Run Papa Run (2008)
- Sparrow (2008)
- (2008)
- (2008)
- Legendary Assassin (2008)
- Shinjuku Incident (2009)
- Vengeance (2009)
- Tactical Unit - Comrades in Arms (2009)
- The Storm Warriors (2009)
- ICAC Investigators 2009 (2009) (TV Series)
- Poker King (2009)
- Womb Ghosts (2010)
- The Legend is Born – Ip Man (2010)
- Triple Tap (2010)
- The Men of Justice (2010) (TV series)
- 72 Tenants of Prosperity (2010)
- The Jade and the Pearl (2010)
- I Love Hong Kong (2011)
- Don't Go Breaking My Heart (2011)
- The Detective 2 (2011)
- Beach Spike (2011)
- (2011)
- The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake (2011)
- (2011)
- Mayday 3DNA (2011)
- The Sorcerer and the White Snake (2011)
- Turning Point 2 (2011)
- The Great Magician (2012)
- Million Dollar Crocodile (2012)
- The Fairy Tale Killer (2012)
- Vulgaria (2012)
- Ultra Reinforcement (2012)
- All's Well, Ends Well 2012 (2012)
- Crazy Stupid Thief (2012)
- Everything Is Nothing (2012)
- Insistence (2012)
- Good-for-Nothing Heros (2012)
- Drug War (2013)
- Better and Better (2013)
- Blind Detective (2013)
- The Constable (2013)
- SDU: Sex Duties Unit (2013)
- Tales from the Dark 1 (2013)[3]
- The Love Experience (2013)
- The True Love (2014)
- The Apostles (2014)
- The Midnight After (2014)
- Iceman (2014)
- The Extreme Fox (2014)
- But Always (2014)
- Ex Fighting (2014)
- Town of the Dragon (2014)
- Break (2014)
- Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 (2014)
- Imprisoned: Survival Guide for Rich and Prodigal (2015)
- Monk Comes Down the Mountain (2015)
- Lost in Hong Kong (2015)
- Saving Mr. Wu (2015)
- Heart for Heaven (2015)
- Trivisa (2016)
- Kill Time (2016)
- Three (2016)
- Robbery (2016)
- Goddess Era (2016)
- MBA Partners (2016)
- The Glory of Tang Dynasty (2017)
- Love Contractually (2017)
- Colour of the Game (2017)
- Always Be With You (2017)
- Iceman 2 (2018)
- A Home with a View (2019)
- A Lifetime Treasure (2019)
- Missbehavior (2019)
- My Dear Elephant (2019)
- Dynasty Warriors (2021)
- Banknotes Fly (TBA)
- Love the Way You Lie (TBA)
References[]
- ^ Lam Suet at hkmdb.com
- ^ Lam Suet at chinesemov.com
- ^ Elley, Derek (October 14, 2013). "Tales from the Dark 1". Film Business Asia. Archived from the original on October 19, 2013. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
External links[]
- 1964 births
- Living people
- Male actors from Tianjin
- Hong Kong male film actors
- Hong Kong male singers
- Hong Kong male television actors
- People with acquired permanent residency of Hong Kong
- 20th-century Hong Kong male actors
- 21st-century Hong Kong male actors
- Chinese male film actors
- Chinese male television actors
- 20th-century Chinese male actors
- 21st-century Chinese male actors
- Best Supporting Actor Asian Film Award winners