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Pik-Sen Lim (Chinese: 林碧笙; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lîm Phaik-seng, born 15 September 1944) is a Malaysian-British actress. According to the British Film Institute, Lim was "the most familiar Chinese actor on British television screens in the 1970s and 80s."
Pik-Sen's best known television role is probably as the vehement Chinese communist in the comedy series Mind Your Language (1977). She also appeared in Doctor Who (1963) in an episode written by her husband and in the 2000s says she is being recognized all over again for her role in the TV sketch show Little Britain (2003)
May 23, 2022 · The narrator was Pik-Sen Lim, born Lim Phaik-Seng, a British-Malaysian from Penang who was born in 1944, making her 77 years old today. She moved to the UK when she was 16 where she studied at the London School of Dramatic Art.
Pik-Sen Lim (27 episodes) as Chung Su-Lee (Series 1–3), a stereotypical Chinese communist woman who works as a secretary at the Chinese Embassy. She is never seen without her Little Red Book of Mao, from which she often quotes and constantly mixes up her r and l sounds.
Pik-Sen Lim was born to Chinese parents in Penang, Malaysia. She came to London at the age of sixteen to learn drama. Her big break came in 1964 when she appeared in the long-running hospital drama series Emergency-Ward 10 (1957) where she was cast as the first Chinese nurse on British television.
Pik-Sen Lim is the author of Wild Swans (4.28 avg rating, 113910 ratings, 7361 reviews, published 1991), Empress Dowager Cixi (3.89 avg rating, 9825 rati...
Pik-Sen Lim ( Chinese: 林碧笙; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lîm Phaik-seng, born 15 September 1944) is a Malaysian-British actress. According to the British Film Institute, Lim was "the most familiar Chinese actor on British television screens in the 1970s and 80s."
Alongside David Yip, Pik-Sen Lim was probably the most familiar Chinese actor on British television screens in the 1970s and 80s. Born in Penang, Malaya, but of Chinese ethnicity, she arrived in Britain as a teenager at the turn of the 1960s, and began acting shortly after.
Pik-Sen Lim is known as an Actor. Some of her work includes Johnny English Reborn, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Roald Dahl's Esio Trot, Mind Your Language, Miranda, Arabian Nights, Plenty, and The Lost Empire.
Pik-Sen Lim (born 15 September 1944[1]) played Captain Chin Lee in the Doctor Who story The Mind of Evil and the Big Finish UNIT: The New Series story Open the Box. She also voiced other characters for Big Finish Productions.
