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Lam Suet Biography and Full Filmography - MovieWise

Quick Facts

Born:
1964-07-08

Birthplace:
Tianjin, China

Credits:
318 Total Roles

Lam Suet

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Biography

Lam Suet (Chinese: 林雪, born on 8 July 1964) 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 Diva - Ah Hey (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.

Known For

Full Filmography

Year Title Role
2026 Legendary Divine Kung Fu MOVIE Self
2025 Golden Boy MOVIE Lam Fung Chun
2025 One Wacky Summer MOVIE Yang Baoquan
2025 The Lychee Road MOVIE He Qiguang
2025 Unusual Deal MOVIE Self
2024 A Man and A Woman MOVIE Self
2024 Break War MOVIE Zhou Shiwen
2024 Rob N Roll MOVIE Fatty
2023 I Did It My Way MOVIE Yuen Muk Yu
2023 Imprisoned II: There is No Escape from Fate MOVIE White Head

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