Ines Laimins

Acting

Ines Laimins

Place of birth

Waterloo, Iowa, U.S.

Known for

Acting

Credits

16 titles

Ines began studying acting while at school at Northwestern University and at that time booked commercial and modelling roles. That lead to Boston, New York, and now in Asia working with some of the best actors and directors. Just last month, she enjoyed two powerful mother roles in Vertical Dramas both shot in China, a new genre which she loved. Now based between Los Angeles and Hong Kong, fluent in Mandarin, Ines works locally and internationally in film, commercial, and TV.

Known for

Borgen poster
8.1

40-year old political leader Birgitte Nyborg secures her party a landslide victory through her idealism and huge effort, then faces the biggest challenge of her life: how most effectively to use the newly won seats, and how far she is willing to go in order to gain as much influence as possible.

Borgen

2010

The Farewell poster
7.4

A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.

The Farewell

2019

Lady Bloodfight poster
6.5

Jane is a beautiful but troubled American girl backpacking through Japan, when her raw street fighting skills draw the attention of Oshima, Japanese karate champion, who recruits and trains her to fight in the vicious, all-female, underground martial arts tournament known as "The Kumite". After months of rigorous preparation, Jane is ready to face off against the deadliest female fighters in the world, including Ling, the Chinese apprentice of Oshima's nemesis. But other nefarious forces lie in the shadows, and Jane and Ling will have to unite on a journey that will take them from the gritty underworld of Hong Kong to the glitz of Macao, before deciding who really is the best female fighter on the planet.

Lady Bloodfight

2016

The Billionaire's Accidental Surrogate Stoles His Heart poster
NR

Imagine losing everything in a single heartbeat. Emily Brown does: her husband steals her house, her niece empties her accounts, and a lab error leaves her pregnant by a stranger. Homeless and broken, she agrees to pose as a surrogate for Frank Downton, a rugged farmer who hides a billion‑dollar empire. In his humble farm, she discovers tenderness she never knew.

The Billionaire's Accidental Surrogate Stoles His Heart

2026

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong poster
6.0

Ruby, a Chinese American toy designer from LA, visits Hong Kong for the first time on business. Finding herself stranded, she meets Josh, an American expat who shows her the city.

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong

2016

Billionaire's Canvas Cinderella poster
NR

Impoverished artist Ella, sold to gangster Derek by her mother, was rescued by billionaire Victor. A drugged encounter left her pregnant, triggering his abrupt marriage. Unbeknownst to him, childhood love Selena retaliated with schemes exposing Ella's true heritage. Ultimately, they overcame threats and lies to build a life together, defying all odds.

Billionaire's Canvas Cinderella

2025

Film credits

2010s · 10 titles

The Farewell poster
7.4

A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.

The Farewell

2019

Lady Bloodfight poster
6.5

Jane is a beautiful but troubled American girl backpacking through Japan, when her raw street fighting skills draw the attention of Oshima, Japanese karate champion, who recruits and trains her to fight in the vicious, all-female, underground martial arts tournament known as "The Kumite". After months of rigorous preparation, Jane is ready to face off against the deadliest female fighters in the world, including Ling, the Chinese apprentice of Oshima's nemesis. But other nefarious forces lie in the shadows, and Jane and Ling will have to unite on a journey that will take them from the gritty underworld of Hong Kong to the glitz of Macao, before deciding who really is the best female fighter on the planet.

Lady Bloodfight

2016

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong poster
6.0

Ruby, a Chinese American toy designer from LA, visits Hong Kong for the first time on business. Finding herself stranded, she meets Josh, an American expat who shows her the city.

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong

2016

Temporary Family poster
5.2

Lung, a hardworking property agent, is facing a serious situation in life. His girlfriend won't marry him unless he can buy her a 1000-sq ft. apartment in one year’s time; whilst Charlotte desperately needs a place to stay after her divorce. Along with Lung’s intern Very, a mainland rich, they become co-owners of the office girl Hak’s small flat that was left to Hak by her estranged mother.

Temporary Family

2014

Go Back to China poster
5.9

When party girl Sasha Li blows through most of her trust fund, she is cut off by her father and forced to go back to China and work for the family toy business.

Go Back to China

2019

Something Good poster
5.8

In a small Chinese village in Yunnan, a young woman named Xiwen sees her little son Shitou die of poisoning from adulterated food. On the other side of the world, in Italy, Matteo works on behalf of Feng, a multinational based in Hong Kong that traffics counterfeit food. To avoid arrest, Matteo escapes from Italy, saving a precious shipment of Feng's food, and this begins his unscrupulous climb towards success. At a time when he is enjoying the greatest prestige within Feng, Matteo meets Xiwen by chance, who has opened a restaurant in memory of his son and is fighting for the authenticity of food. Neither of them imagines that from that moment their lives will be turned upside down.

Something Good

2013

Four Assassins poster
4.2

Four assassins meet in a hotel suite to resolve unfinished business. A tense drama set in the cosmopolitan world of Hong Kong.

Four Assassins

2013

Christmas at the Royal Hotel poster
5.0

In 1941, Hong Kong was the Casablanca of the East, a city full of war refugees, profiteers and spies. With the sudden attack by Japanese troops, a Canadian soldier's Christmas promise is broken during the Battle of Hong Kong.

Christmas at the Royal Hotel

2019

Love Stalk poster
8.5

Sharon is a fast-­rising PR executive from Singapore, searching for love in Hong Kong, who may have found her dream guy, but as she chases after him online and in person, Sharon quickly finds out the dangers of stalking a secret crush.

Love Stalk

2016

Scars Of Nanking poster
6.0

During the brutal invasion of China in 1937 by Imperial Japanese forces, tens of thousands of civilians and prisoners of war are murdered and women raped in what is known simply as "The Rape of Nanking." This docudrama is a stirring account of a small band of courageous American missionaries who choose to stay in Nanking to try and protect a quarter million vulnerable Chinese civilians who are trapped in a city ruled by a savage, out of control army. Their stories are brought vividly to life through actual real-time letters and diaries as they bear witness to one of the worst wartime atrocities in history.

Scars Of Nanking

2017

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