Elaine Jin

Template:Infobox Chinese-language singer and actor Elaine Jin (Chinese: 金燕玲; pinyin: Jīn Yànlíng; born 15 December 1954), or known as Yanling Jin or Elaine Kam is a Hong Kong actress.

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

She has been nominated six times in the Hong Kong Film Awards and won three for her supporting roles in Love Unto Waste (Chinese: 地下情) (1986), People's Hero (Chinese: 人民英雄) (1987) and Port Of Call (Chinese: 踏血尋梅) (2016). 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: 獨立時代) (1994).

Filmography

Feature films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	A Brighter Summer Day	Miss Jin	Nominated - Golden Horse Awards for Best Supporting Actress
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
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: A One and a Two
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

TV series

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
2007–2008	Best Selling Secrets	TVB	Ng Han	Nominated - My Favourite Female Character (Top 24)
2008–2010	Off Pedder	TVB	Ka So San
2011	When Heaven Burns	TVB

Personal

Jin has been married twice, first to Liang Tingbin (梁廷斌) in 1975 (divorced 1981）and then with Robert Wong in 1989 (divorced 2005）, but has been in a same sex relationship with Suzie Wong (蘇施黃) since.

External links

• Elaine Jin at IMDb
• HK Cinemagic entry