Me Me Lai
Biography
Me Me Lai, sometimes billed as Me Me Lay, is an ex-actress born in Burma in 1952, to a Burmese mother and an English father. She moved to England in her teens, where she soon started her acting career, at first in television series like Paul Temple and Jason King.
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Soon, she made the transition to acting in movies, starting with the 1971 horror movie Crucible of Terror, soon followed by 1972's Au Pair Girls.
Lai came into her own during the era of Italian cannibal films, playing lead roles in two genre-defining movies: Il Paese del Sesso Selvaggio (1972) by Umberto Lenzi, and Ultimo Mondo Cannibale (1977) by Ruggero Deodato, in which her character is graphically consumed by a tribe of cannibals. Additionally, she also had a part in Mangiati Vivi (1980), again by Umberto Lenzi, in which her death scene from Ultimo Mondo Cannibale was re-used. Outside the cannibal genre, she had a role in Blake Edwards's 1978 comedy Revenge of the Pink Panther.
Me Me Lai also was co-hostess of British game shows The Golden Shot and Sale of the Century,and appeared on the 1970s Yorkshire Television programme Origami, with Robert Harbin.
Her last movie was Lars von Trier's The Element of Crime in 1984.
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Known for
Revenge of the Pink PantherChinese Lady of Easy Virtue6.4
The Element of CrimeKim6.4
Eaten Alive!Mowara5.2
Last Cannibal WorldPulan5.8
Man from Deep RiverMarayå5.6
Carry On Up the JungleNosha (uncredited)5.9
Au Pair GirlsNan Lee4.6
Crucible of TerrorChi-San
Jason KingSeries
Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal FilmFilm
She'll Follow You AnywhereBride
Licensed to Love and KillFemale Madam Wang
Filmography
- 2024The Queen of the CannibalsFilm
- 2016Mondo CannibaleFilm
- 2015Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal FilmFilm
- 1984The Element of CrimeFilm: Kim
- 1980Eaten Alive!Film: Mowara
- 1979Licensed to Love and KillFilm: Female Madam Wang
- 1978Revenge of the Pink PantherFilm: Chinese Lady of Easy Virtue
- 1977Last Cannibal WorldFilm: Pulan
- 1972Man from Deep RiverFilm: Marayå
- 1972Au Pair GirlsFilm: Nan Lee
- 1972Crucible of TerrorFilm: Chi-San
- 1971Jason KingSeries (1 episode)
- 1971She'll Follow You AnywhereFilm: Bride
- 1970Carry On Up the JungleFilm: Nosha (uncredited)
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