Elaine Jin
Taiwanese actress
- Born
- 30 November 1954, Taipei
- Citizenship
- Taiwan
- Occupation
- actor, film actor, television actor
- Films here
- 2
Elaine Chin Yen-ling (Chinese: 金燕玲; 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 began acting in numerours notable films in the 1970s including ones produce by Hong Kong's third-largest film enterprise Goldig Films (owned by Alex Gouw).
She has been nominated eleven times in the Hong Kong Film Awards and won four 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) (2015). 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).
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.
Filmography (martial arts films)
| Year | Film | Credit |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Seven Warriors | Cast |
| 1999 | Gorgeous | Cast |
Frequent collaborators
External links
Facts from Wikidata Q701597 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.