Elaine Jin

Elaine Jin
Elaine Jin
Born	December 15, 1954 (age 69); Taipei, Taiwan
Years active	1973–present
Spouses	; Lawrence Leung (m. 1975; div. 1981) ; Robert Wong (m. 1989; div. 2005)
Partner	Suzie Wong
Children	1
Awards	; Hong Kong Film Awards – Best Supporting Actress; 1987 Love Unto Waste; 1988 People's Hero; 2015 Port of Call; 2016 Mad World; ; Golden Horse Awards – Best Supporting Actress; 1994 A Confucian Confusion; 2016 Mad World; ;
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	金きむ燕つばめ玲れい
Simplified Chinese	金きむ燕つばめ玲れい
Transcriptions
Transcriptions

Elaine Chin^{[citation needed]} Yen-ling^[1] (Chinese: 金きむ燕つばめ玲れい; pinyin: Jīn Yànlíng; born 15 December 1954), also known as Elaine Kam, is a Hong Kong–Taiwanese actress.

She began her career in Taiwan in 1973 before moving to Hong Kong in 1981.

She has been nominated seven times in the Hong Kong Film Awards and won three for her supporting roles in Love Unto Waste (Chinese: 地ち下情かじょう) (1986), People's Hero (Chinese: 人民じんみん英雄えいゆう) (1987) and Port of Call (Chinese: 踏血尋ひろ梅うめ) (2016).^[2] In 1994, Jin earned her first Golden Horse Film Award, also in the supporting category, for her performance in Edward Yang's A Confucian Confusion (Chinese: 獨立どくりつ時代じだい) (1994).

Jin won the Golden Horse Award and the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 2016 film Mad World.

Personal life[edit]

Jin has been married twice, to Liang Tingbin (梁りょう廷斌) in 1975 (divorced in 1981) and then with Robert Wong in 1989 (divorced in 2005).^[3]^[4]

Filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	I Love Lolanto
1985	Women		Nominated - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actress
1986	Love Unto Waste		Won - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actress
1987	People's Hero		Won - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actress
1988	I Need to Escape		Nominated - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actress
1991	A Brighter Summer Day	Miss Jin	Nominated - Golden Horse Awards for Best Supporting Actress
1994	A Confucian Confusion		Won - Golden Horse Awards for Best Supporting Actress
1997	The Soong Sisters		Nominated - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actress
1998	Tempting Heart		Nominated - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actress
1999	Gorgeous
1999	Metade Fumaca		Nominated - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actress
2000	Yi Yi
2004	Three of a Kind
2007	Lost in Beijing	Wang Mei
	Brothers	Tin's wife
	The Romantic Fool
2011	Mei Mei	Miss Chen
2012	The Viral Factor
2013	Finding Mr. Right	Chou
2013	Indigo		Short film
2013	A Complicated Story
2014	Beijing Love Story
2015	Port of Call	May	Won - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actress
2015	Monster Hunt
2015	Tale of Three Cities
2016	Buddy Cops
2016	Mad World	Tung's Mother	Won - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actress Won - Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated - Asian Film Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated - Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
2016	Summer's Desire
2017	29+1	Elaine
2018	About Youth
2018	Spring Tide
2018	House of the Rising Sons
2019	Hypnotize the Jury
2023	Where the Wind Blows

TV series[edit]

Year	Title	Network	Role	TVB Anniversary Awards
1983	The Man in the Middle	TVB
1984	101 Citizen Arrest II	ATV	Ling
2006	Central Affairs 2	ATV	Tung Zhi-shu
2007–08	Best Selling Secrets	TVB	Ng Han	Nominated - My Favourite Female Character (Top 24)
2008–10	Off Pedder	TVB	Ka So San
2011-12	When Heaven Burns	TVB	Yung Cheuk Wah (Brenda)
2019	I Bet Your Pardon

^[5]^[6]

References[edit]

^ 香港ほんこん影畫かげえ 1974 十じゅう月がつ號ごう (in Chinese). Shaw Brothers Studio. October 1974.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
^ "'This award belongs to you all': controversial hit Ten Years claims top prize at Hong Kong Film Awards". South China Morning Post. Hong Kong. 3 April 2016. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
^ "第だい二に屆とどけELLE Beauty Star Asia Awards 頒獎典禮てんれい | ELLE.com.hk". Elle. Archived from the original on 2019-07-01. Retrieved 2024-06-02.
^ "天てん后きさき配はい角かく金きん燕つばめ玲れい2度ど失しつ婚こん愛あい上じょう同性どうせい終おわり獲え歸屬きぞく竟再爆ばく罹かか癌がん噩耗". Yahoo News (in Chinese). 2021-05-10. Retrieved 2024-06-02.
^ Elaine Jin at hkmdb.com
^ Elaine Jin at chinesemov.com

External links[edit]

Elaine Jin at IMDb
HK Cinemagic entry

[1] 香港ほんこん影畫かげえ 1974 十じゅう月がつ號ごう (in Chinese). Shaw Brothers Studio. October 1974.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

[2] "'This award belongs to you all': controversial hit Ten Years claims top prize at Hong Kong Film Awards". South China Morning Post. Hong Kong. 3 April 2016. Retrieved 4 April 2016.

[3] "第だい二に屆とどけELLE Beauty Star Asia Awards 頒獎典禮てんれい | ELLE.com.hk". Elle. Archived from the original on 2019-07-01. Retrieved 2024-06-02.

[4] "天てん后きさき配はい角かく金きん燕つばめ玲れい2度ど失しつ婚こん愛あい上じょう同性どうせい終おわり獲え歸屬きぞく竟再爆ばく罹かか癌がん噩耗". Yahoo News (in Chinese). 2021-05-10. Retrieved 2024-06-02.

[5] Elaine Jin at hkmdb.com

[6] Elaine Jin at chinesemov.com

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v t e Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actress
1960s	Tang Pao-yun (1962) Margaret Tu Chuan (1963) Wang Lai (1965) Lu Biyun (1966) Angela Yu Chien (1967) Ouyang Sha-fei (1968) Zhang Bingyu (1969)
1970s	Xia Taifeng (1970) Sally Chen (1971) Fu Bihui (1972) Lisa Lu (1973) Josephine Siao (1975) Sylvia Chang (1976) Terry Hu (1977) Gua Ah-leh (1978) Shen Shihua (1979)
1980s	Xiang Yunpeng and Shao Peiling (1980) Wang Lai (1981) Deanie Ip (1982) Ying Ying (1983) Chen Qiuyan (1984) Tang Ruwen (1985) Cora Miao (1986) Lin Shanru (1987) Wang Lai (1988) Ann Lee (1989)
1990s	Maggie Cheung (1990) Rebecca Pan and Wang Lai (1991) Josephine Koo (1992) Gua Ah-leh (1993) Elaine Jin (1994) Wern Ying (1995) Qiu Xiumin (1996) Liao Huizhen (1997) Shu Qi (1998) Deanie Ip (1999)
2000s	Chao Mei Ling (2000) Yoky Lo (2001) Karena Lam (2002) Lin Mei-hsiu (2003) Bai Ling (2004) Yuen Qiu (2005) Nikki Hsieh (2006) Fan Bingbing (2007) Mei Fang (2008) Kara Hui (2009)
2010s	Hao Lei (2010) Tang Qun (2011) Liang Jing (2012) Yeo Yann Yann (2013) Wan Qian (2014) Lü Hsueh-feng (2015) Elaine Jin (2016) Vicky Chen (2017) Ding Ning (2018) Winnie Chang (2019)
2020s	Chen Shu-fang (2020) Wang Yu-xuan (2021) Kagaw Piling (2022) Beatrice Fang (2023)