Doctor Who star Pik-Sen Lim dead aged 80 as tributes paid to icon
Pik-Sen rose to fame as Chung Su-Lee in 1970s comedy Mind Your Language but was best known for her appearance in Doctor Who serial The Mind of Evil, The Mirror reports.
Sharing his heartbreak over her death, actor Daniel York Loh paid tribute on Instagram and wrote: "An iconic figure in so many ways, I'd seen her on TV in Mind Your Language amongst other things when I was a kid.'
"She was so affectionate, so witty, so brilliantly scabrous and absolutely honest about the rubbish this industry deals actors of our heritage - unlike a fair few others who actually try and cape it.
"We'll miss you so much but thank you, Pixi, for blessing our lives with your unique presence."
Pik-Sen was born in British Malaya, now Malaysia, moving to Britain at 16 to pursue a career in acting. She had been the daughter of the palm oil millionaire Lim Cheng-Teik and was nicknamed 'Pixie' at the convent school she attended in Penang.
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Her family had not been supportive of her acting dream, but in the 60s she began acquiring roles in shows such as Emergency Ward 10, in which she played a nurse. During this time, she also met her husband, scriptwriter Don Houghton, who she married in 1968.
She went on to appear in Her husband's scripted Doctor Who serial The Mind of Evil in 1971. Pik-Sen also starred in three seasons of sitcom Mind Your Language, during which she spoke in an exaggerated Chinese accent.
Pik-Sen also starred in Albion Market (1985) and Night and Day (2003), Arabian Nights (2000), The Bill (2005) and even Little Britain as a side character alongside David Walliams and Matt Lucas.
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