Me Me Lai

Acting

Me Me Lai

Born
(age 75)
Birthplace
Burma
Credits
17 titles

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.

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Known For

Acting credits 17

YearTitleRole
2024 The Queen of the Cannibals Film
2018 Me Me Lai Bites Back Film Self
2016 Mondo Cannibale Film
2015 Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film Film
1988 Dying: Last Seconds of Life, Part II Film Self - Pulan (scenes from "Jungle Holocaust") (archive footage) (uncredited)
1984 Ennenstadt Europa – The Making of The Element of Crime Film Self - Actress/Kim
1984 The Element of Crime Film Kim
1980 Eaten Alive! Film Mowara
1979 Licensed to Love and Kill Film Female Madam Wang
1978 Revenge of the Pink Panther Film Chinese Lady of Easy Virtue
1977 Last Cannibal World Film Pulan
1972 Man from Deep River Film Marayå
1972 Au Pair Girls Film Nan Lee
1972 Crucible of Terror Film Chi-San
1971 Jason King TV (1 ep)
1971 She'll Follow You Anywhere Film Bride
1970 Carry On Up the Jungle Film Nosha (uncredited)
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