
Person
Me Me Lai
Acting · Born 1951-11-03 · Burma
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. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Me Me Lai, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for

Jason King
1971

Revenge of the Pink Panther
Chinese Lady of Easy Virtue

Last Cannibal World
Pulan

Eaten Alive!
Mowara

She'll Follow You Anywhere
Bride

The Element of Crime
Kim

Au Pair Girls
Nan Lee

Man from Deep River
Marayå

Carry On Up the Jungle
Nosha (uncredited)

Licensed to Love and Kill
Female Madam Wang
Filmography
- 2024The Queen of the Cannibals
- 2018Me Me Lai Bites BackSelf
- 2016Mondo Cannibale
- 2015Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film
- 1984Ennenstadt Europa – The Making of The Element of CrimeSelf - Actress/Kim
- 1984The Element of CrimeKim
- 1980Eaten Alive!Mowara
- 1979Licensed to Love and KillFemale Madam Wang
- 1978Revenge of the Pink PantherChinese Lady of Easy Virtue
- 1977Last Cannibal WorldPulan
- 1972Man from Deep RiverMarayå
- 1972Au Pair GirlsNan Lee
- 1972Crucible of TerrorChi-San
- 1971Jason King
- 1971She'll Follow You AnywhereBride
- 1970Carry On Up the JungleNosha (uncredited)
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