陳皮鴨 (演員)

简介

Chen Pi Ya, born in 1908 as Hu Shu Xian, was a Chinese film actress and Yueju opera performer. She began her career in the 1940s with the "Jing Hua Yan Ying" all-female opera troupe in Guangzhou, performing at the rooftop of the Da Xin Company. She was famously known as the "Queen of Female Comic Roles" (女丑生皇) in the opera world. She was also an active Hong Kong film star from the late 1930s to the 1940s. Her screen debut was in the 1937 film "The Sentimental Angel", and her final film was "Riot in the Powder Tower" in 1949. In her later years, she worked as a teacher at the Guangzhou Yueju Opera Theatre and retired in 1976. Her sister Chen Pi Mei is also a famous female comic opera actress. She returned to Hong Kong in 1976 for medical treatment, supported by her fellow artists, and died in 1978 at Mary Hospital after an illness, aged 70. Her funeral was held in Hong Kong in February 1978.