Helena Law Lan
Born: 1934-11-13 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
Known For: Acting
Biography
Born Yin Ying Lo in Guangdong, China, Helena began acting as a teenager in the early 1950s and took the stage name Law Lan after actress Sophia Loren ("Law Lan" being the Cantonese pronunciation of Loren's last name). She would go on to become one of the most prolific actresses in the world, amassing well over 500 film and TV acting credits to date. Though she's adaptable to any genre, in later years she carved a niche out for herself in horror films, including the seemingly-endless Troublesome Night series.
Filmography
2026
2025
- The Fading Gold as Fong Luk Chiu-Kwan
- Fight for Tomorrow
- Reborn as Sister Xia
2024
- Table for Six 2 as Josephine's Grandmother
2023
- You're Just Not Her
- Death Notice as Old Woman
2022
2021
- Sinister Beings
- Hello Missfortune as Lam Sze-mei
- All U Need Is Love as Service Staff
- Synesthete as Modern Go-Between
2020
- Death By Zero as So Fei Ya / "Sofia"
- All's Well, End's Well 2020 as Headmaster Law
2019
- Police Tactical Unit
- I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change! as Granny Lung / Nun
- Girl Dorm
2018
- Life on the Line
- Agent Mr. Chan as Meng Po
- L Storm as Raymond Chan's mother
- Adieu
- A Beautiful Moment
- Hotel Soul Good
2017
- Oh My Grad as Kong Pik
- The No No Girl
- Cook Up a Storm as Grandmother Zhang
- Always Be with You as The Taoist
- Love Contractually
- The Ghost House
- Through the Eye as Aunt Juan
2016
- House of Spirits as Mrs Bak
- Blue Veins as Lam Wong Chi Hung
- The Last Healer in Forbidden City as 慈禧
- Come with Me
- Heaven in the Dark as Prosecution Lawyer
- A Dog Named Wang Zi
2015
- Brick Slaves
- An Inspector Calls as Butler
- Are You Here as Master of Wisdom
- Super Models
- Tales of Mystery as Lung Popo (segment 3)
- Big Fortune Hotel as Lung Poh
- The Making of a Man
- 靈魂相認
2014
- Come On, Cousin as Fong Gwai-lan
- Officer Geomancer
- Shades of Life
- Overheard 3 as Aunt Gil
- Flirting in the Air as Sister Future
- Neighborhood Ghost Stories as 龙婆
2013
- Inbound Troubles as Sophia
- 最佳女主角
- Awfully Lawful
- The White Storm as Wai's mother
- Karma Rider
2012
- The Last Steep Ascent
- A Simple Life as Madame Lo
- The Cases
2010
- The Haunting Lover as Mrs. Cui
2009
- Club Sparkle
- Midnight Taxi as Xie shifu's wife
2007
- Flash Point as Madam Ma
- 謎
- Loving You Is Wrong
2006
- Be My Guest
- Summer Heat
- On the Road (Sr. 1)
- Don't Open Your Eyes as Auntie Seventh
- Undying Heart as Kiko
2004
2003
- Whatever It Takes as 高大娘
- Point of No Return
- Ups and Downs in the Sea of Love as Grandmother Wah
- Life Begins at Forty
- The Legend Of Love
- Death Trap as Auntie Sang
- Troublesome Night 18 as 毕氏龙娣
- Ghost Story as The Master
- Kung Fu Master Is My Grandma! as Granny Wong Fei Hung
- Troublesome Night 19 as 毕氏龙娣
- The Story of Soccer Bet
- Deals with the Dark
- Enjokosai Angel
- My Honeymoon with a Vampire as Auntie Mui
- Foolish 23
2002
- Burning Flame II
- Treasure Raiders
- Haunted Office as Mary Ho
- The Conman 2002 as Summer's Mom
- Troublesome Night 15 as 毕氏龙娣
- Ghost Timeless as Bak Sau-Sau
- Troublesome Night 14 as 毕氏龙娣
- Troublesome Night 16 as 毕氏龙娣、黄婆
- Fighting To Survive
- Time 4 Hope as Chi's Mother
- Return from the Other World as Shiu's Mother
- Twilight Zone Cops: Ghost Driven as Granny Shaw
- Troublesome Night 17 as 毕氏龙娣
- Troublesome Night 13 as 毕氏龙娣
- Visible Secret 2 as Old Lady Downstairs
- Twilight Zone Cops: My Spirited Wife as Miss Shaw
- Taxi Driver
- Cafe Shop
- Ghost in the Family
- The Soul Is Return
2001
- Gods of Honour as 姚天香
- Reaching Out
- Unveil The Mystery as 主持人
- The Awakening Story
- Master Q 2001 as Referee
- Esprit D'Amour as Aunt Ha
- Human Pork Chop as Grace's Grandmother
- Troublesome Night 8 as 毕氏龙娣
- Troublesome Night 12 as 毕氏龙娣
- Bakery Amour as Jet's mom
- The Legend of a Professional as Ho's mom
- Troublesome Night 10 as 毕氏龙娣
- Seamy Side Of Life - A Black Chick as Yuk's grandmother
- Comic King
- Dead End
- Merry-Go-Round as Locust's grandma
- United We Stand, and Swim as Little Fish's Mom
- Troublesome Night 11 as 毕氏龙娣
- Ghost Story - Horrible Tea as Lau's Mother
- Troublesome Night 9 as 毕氏龙娣
- Clueless
- Hong Kong History Y
- Young Guns
- Speedy Gun Shooter
2000
- Crimson Sabre
- Street Fighters as 何八
- Aiming High as 翁美香
- Incurable Traits
- Raped by an Angel 5: The Final Judgement as Mrs. Hong
- Jiang Hu: The Triad Zone as Kei's Widow
- Troublesome Night 7 as Granny Ping
- For Bad Boys Only as Sophia
- Deathnet.Com as Gigi's Mother
- Hong Kong History X as Auntie Bird
- Twilight Garden as Aunt Nun
- True Love
- Mafia.com
- Resort Massacre as Mrs. Lim
- Ghost Meets You as Hung Chi Yin
- Sworn Revenge
- Eternal Love
- Bloody Cops as Sister Lan
1999
- Witness to a Prosecution as 牛妈
- Man's Best Friend
- Road To Eternity
- Life For Life
- The Mirror as Aunt Lan
- Bullets Over Summer as Granny
- A Loving Spirit
- House of the Damned as Aunt Nan
- He is My Enemy, Partner and Father-In-Law as Stallone's Mother
- Gigolo of Chinese Hollywood as Lady Kam
- Horoscope: The Voice from Hell as Aunt Szeto
- Troublesome Night 5 as Old Ghost
- Troublesome Night 6 as Heung's mother
- Hanky Panky as Vincent's Mother
- Immortal Spirit as Mike's Mother-in-Law
- Mr. A? Mr. C?
- Till Death Do Us Part
1998
- Armed Reaction as 刘顺好
- The Duke of Mount Deer as 歸二娘
- War And Remembrance as 多隆妻
- The Untold Story 2 as Granny San
- Rural Hero
- Young and Dangerous: The Prequel as Nam's Grandmother
- Young and Dangerous 5 as Nam's Grandmother
- A Place Of One's Own
- Haunted Mansion as Ah Gi's mother
- Mr. Wai-Go as Mrs. Wong
- Grandma and Her Ghosts
- The Pale Sky
- Troublesome Night 3 as Gigi's granny
- Faces of Horror
- F***/Off
- Step Into the Dark as Faith's grandmother
- Nightmare Zone as Grumpy Old Woman
- A Long and Forgotten Ghost Story as Convenience Store Boss's Wife
1997
- Untraceable Evidence as 傅修女
- Justice Sung
- Taming Of The Princess as 王大妈
- Time Before Time
- Mystery Files
- Triumph Over Evil
- Troublesome Night as Ghost Granny
- Drunken Angels
- 02:00 A.M. as Chi
- Haunted Karaoke as Woman Who Summons Ghosts
- 24 Hrs Ghost Story as Charlie's mother
- He Comes From Planet K as Granny Lone
- Midnight Zone as Shing's Mom
- Tamagotchi as Miss Tsui
- Stand Behind the Yellow Line as Master's grandmother
1996
- State of Divinity as 定逸师太
- Outburst as 洪日菊
- Young and Dangerous 3
- One Good Turn Deserves Another
- Devil's Woman as Si-Man's Grandmother
- Man Wanted 2: Those Were the Days as Aunt Lan
- July 13th as Aunt Lung
1995
- Detective Investigation Files as 宋甘兰 Sung Kam Lan
- The Condor Heroes 95 as 裘千尺 Kao Chin-chek
- From Act to Act
- When a Man Loves a Woman
- Hand of Hope
- Hong Kong Graffiti
- The Day that Doesn't Exist
- Just Married
1994
- The Last Conquest
- Crime And Passion
- Fatal Obsession as The Sorceress
- Hello! Who Is It? as May's mom
- Modern Romance as Sister Nancy
- The Crucifixion as Jogger [cameo]
- I Will Wait for You!
- Out on a Limb
- From Zero to Hero
- The Third Full Moon as Dr. Lung
- Man on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown as Hung's mom
1993
- The Edge of Righteousness
- Don't Stop My Crazy Love for You as Miss Ho
- The Buddhism Palm Strikes Back
- Gambling On Life
- The Vampire Returns as 张可爱
- The Art of Being Together
- Crazy Hong Kong as Mother
- Boys Are Easy as Mrs. Wu
- The Bride with White Hair 2 as Wu Tang Clan Elder
- Thou Shalt Not Swear as Lung
- Justice Is Blind as Lawyer
1992
- Tales From Beyond as 孟男母亲
- The Key Man as 余亚葵
- Royal Tramp 2 as Dragon Sect Founder
- Money And Fame
- Odd Man Out
- Source Of Evil
- Beyond Love as 六姐
- Devil of Rape
- Once a Black Sheep as Sister Tak Lan
- Sting of the Scorpion as Chien's mother
1991
1990
- When the Sun Shines
- The Witness Of Time
- When Things Get Tough
- She Shoots Straight as Nanny
- Doctor Vampire as Mrs. Hsieh
- Ghostly Vixen as Janitor
1989
- The Justice of Life as 曾亞彩
- War Of The Dragon
- Miracles: The Canton Godfather as In the Governor's Room
- The Sect of Blood & Iron
- Three In A Crowd
- The Iceman Cometh as Hospital worker
- The Jade Fox
- Operation Pink Squad II as Landlady
- Vampire Buster as Councillor Tang
- Gift from Heaven as Wu Tse Tien
- Missing Man as Housemaid
- Eat a Bowl of Tea as Aunt Gim
1988
- Everybody's Somebody's Favourite
- Two Most Honorable Knights as 花婆婆
- The Haunted Cop Shop II as Ms. Yellow
- Leo And Sirius
- The Crazy Companies II as Amy's Mother
- Operation Pink Squad as Wong
- The Greatest Lover as Shi's Aunt
- Guests in the House as Ho Fei-Feng
- Double Fattiness
1987
- The Seasons
- The Upstart and the Self-Made Man
- Trouble Couples as Agnes' mother
- Fortune Hunters
1986
- New Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre as 靜玄
- The Feud of Two Brothers
- The Unyielding Master Lim
- The Legend of Wong Tai Sin as 独孤婆婆
- Royal Warriors as Patron at Nightclub California
- Brothers Under The Skin
- Men of the House
- Dharma
- The Missed Date
- My Heavenly Lover
1985
- The Brave Squad
- Take Care Your Highness
- The Tough Fight
- Devil Cat
- I Do as Sister Ngan
1984
1983
1982
- American Playhouse as Aunt Gim
- Stardust
- The Buddha's Magic Palm
- Destiny
- You Only Live Twice
- 错结良缘 as 张妈
- Love With Many Phases
- Energetic-21 as Alan's Mother
- Young Dreams
1981
1980
1979
- Chor Lau-heung as 蓉蓉的姑媽
- Short Cuts
1977
- A House is Not a Home
- Money Crazy as Rich Chan's Wife
- Absent Minded Inspector
- On Probation as Reform school mistress
- The Legend of the Purple Hairpin
1975
1974
- Chinese Folklore
- The Fatal Irony
- Games Gamblers Play as Man's Wife
- Kidnap
- Hong Kong 73 as Hospital Registration Nurse
- Gossip Street as Suzy Lo
- Seductive Ghost
- Supremo
- The Country Bumpkin-in Style
- Tenants of Talkative Street
- Fun, Hong Kong Style
- The Country Bumpkin
- 乜都得先生
1973
- The Heroine as Taxi Dispatcher
- Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend as Self
- The House of 72 Tenants as Brothel mamasan
1970
- Lucky Seven as Blind wife
- Magic Feeding
- Happy Times
- Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow as Song's Sister-in-Law
- Secret agent no. 1
- 飞剑神童
1969
- 相思甜如蜜 as Jenny Lee
- 成家立室
- 七彩红男绿女
- The Liar
- The Magic Cat
1968
- Buddhist Spiritual Palm Returned as 阿嬌
- 小五義大破銅網陣
- Let's Be Happy Tonight
- 梅兰菊竹
- 玉女癡情
- Young, Pregnant and Unmarried as Wong Siu-Kuen/Ah Kuen
1967
- Happy Years as Miss Pak Chen
- Girl with Cat's Eye as Ding Lai
- 蓬门淑女
- Song of Happiness as Ng Sheung-Ling
- 旺财嫂
- 聖火雄風大破火蓮陣
1966
- Landlady and Tenant as Ah Fong
- To Marry a Ghost
- The Deadly Angel Alias: The Venomous Angel. as 岑美瑩
- Strange Romance on a Bus as Huang Xiufeng
- Double Relation as 馮霞
- Twin Sisters as Julie, Chow's Stepwife
- 天涯芳草
- 701乌龙女侦探
- 神秘的血案 as 女警
- Return of Lady Bond as Tong's stepmother
- Double Exposure as 露丝
- One Duel Too Many
- The Detective as Mrs Wu
- 春满花开燕子归
- You Do Me Wrong
- Little Foursome Family
1965
- Standard Husband
- Eight Murderers as 黃太
- To Catch a Murderer as 羅太
- Silent Love as Lan
- The Secret Code as Cheung Yuet-Ngor
- The Husband of a Lady
- Good Luck as 何芳
- The Curse
- 难为了家嫂
- Black Holidays as Wong Lan
1964
- Homeless Children as Miss Lau
- The Student Prince as Miss Ng
- The Diary of a Husband, Part 2 as Mrs Lung
- As Time Goes By as Ting Wai-fong
- The Diary of a Husband as Mrs. Lung
- A Deadly Night as Maid
- The Beau as 明星
1963
- Young Girl In Love as 高碧茜 (Ko Pik Sai)
- Two City Girls as Pang Shui-ha
- Three Love Affairs as Wong Yuk-Mui
- Madam Kam as Chiu Yuk-Wah
1962
1961
- Les Belles as Cafe Cashier
- Dial 999 for 24-Hour Murder Case as Lucy
- Creepy Nights
1960
- My Intimate Partner as Tam Fung's wife 谭枫妻
- Wong An Vs. the Flying Tigers as Lee Bik-Lin
- The Wild, Wild Rose as Nightclub patron
- The Great Devotion as Mahjong pal
- The Story of Wong Ang the Heroine as Chiu's second concubine
- The Case of 'Missing Corpse’ as Secretary
- Adventure on a Deadly Island
- 秋风残叶
1959
- The Chair as Woman with little girl
- Our Dream Car as Auto Queen
- The Talking Bird
- Human Relationships
- How Oriole the Heroine Solved the Case of the Three Dead Bodies
- Wong Fei Hung Trapped in Hell
- Money as Club patron
- King Kong's Adventures in the Heavenly Palace as Prostitute
- Road as Kit Ching
- Glass Slippers
- Story of the White-Haired Demon Girl (Part 1) as Yin-Ying Lo
1958
1957
- 黃飛鴻血濺姑婆屋
- My Kingdom for a Husband as Queen's Escort
1956
- Wong Fei-Hung and the Lantern Festival Disturbance as Prostitute
- The White Crane Hero
- Fatso Married Skinny as Dancer
1954
- 香銷十二美人樓 as 季蘭友
- A Love Story as 唐英
- Neighbours All
1953
1950
- The Kid as Factory worker
- Home, Sweet Home as 梅英