Lam Suet
Audiences rate Lam Suet’s films higher than 75% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking
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The ThumbScore for Lam Suet (74.8%) is the average audience approval rating across 13 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Lam's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
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 found work on movie sets through the help of friends. He performed many 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 people 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 films such as The God of Cookery (1996) and Kung Fu Hustle.
The second person is director Johnnie To. Lam has appeared in over 80 films since 1996 and at least 20 of those have been directed or produced by To.
Born 1964-07-08 in Tianjin, China.
On ThumbScore, Lam Suet appears in 13 films with an average audience score of 74.8%, most frequently in the Action genre.
Sources: TMDB
