Lam Suet

Acting

Born Jul 08, 1964

From Tianjin, China

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.

Lam Suet

Known For

Kung Fu Hustle

One Wacky Summer

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky

Gorgeous

The Sorcerer and the White Snake

Golden Boy

The God of Cookery

Shinjuku Incident

Dog Bite Dog

Running Out of Time

Filmography — Acting

Kung Fu Hustle

One Wacky Summer

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky

Gorgeous

The Sorcerer and the White Snake

Golden Boy

The God of Cookery

Shinjuku Incident

Dog Bite Dog

Running Out of Time

The Mission

Iceman

The Lucky Guy

Just Another Pandora's Box

Love on Delivery

Invisible Target

Dynasty Warriors

Vengeance

Election

Vampire Vs. Vampire

One Nite in Mongkok

The Longest Nite

The Rookies

Men Suddenly in Black

Wu Yen

Badges of Fury

Fatal Contact

72 Tenants of Prosperity

Out of the Dark

The Great Magician

Drug War

Run Papa Run

Jiang Hu

Bad Blood

SDU: Sex Duties Unit

Legendary Divine Kung Fu

Trivisa

Election 2

Eye in the Sky

Lost in Hong Kong

My Kung Fu Sweetheart

Sound of Colors

Septet: The Story of Hong Kong

U-Man

You Shoot, I Shoot

Love for All Seasons

Agent Mr. Chan

Ocean Flame

I Did It My Way

Triad Wars

Exiled

Mad Detective

The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake

Monk Comes Down the Mountain

My Left Eye Sees Ghosts

Rob N Roll

Breaking News

Needing You...

Crazy n' the City

All's Well, Ends Well

Accident

The Trough

A Hero Never Dies

Help!!!

Triple Tap

PTU

The Lychee Road