Our Role Model

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Our Role Model Lydia Shum
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Profile

• Name Lydia Shum
• Chinese Name Shum Din Ha
• Nickname Fei Fei / Fatty
• Birth 21st July ,1945
• Death 19th February, 2008
• Age 62
• Height 158cm
• Origin Hong Kong
• Chinese Zodiac Pig
• Born ShangHai , China
• Nationality Canada
• Family Joyce Cheung
• Profession Actress / Singer / Show Host
• Genres In-Laws Outlaws of 2004
• Associated Acts Four Golden Flower

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Career

• Shum Din-Ha, also known as Lydia Shum , was a
  popular Hong Kong comedienne ,MC ,and actress
  known for her portly figure, signature dark
  rimmed glasses and bouffant hairstyle. She was
  affectionately known to peers and fans as Fei-fei
  .She appeared in numerous Hong Kong films and was
  an iconic TVB entertainer over forty years.For a
  brief spell in the 1990, Shum left TVB to work at
  rival ATV.
• Shum died on 19th February,2008 from liver
  cancer, aged 62, following a prolonged bout of
  complications.Shum was born in 1945 in Shanghai,
  China, to her mum and dad. She entered the Hong
  Kong entertainment industry at the age of 13 in
  1958. She made her film debut in 1960, joining
  Shaw Brothers as a teenage actress at the age of
  15. She took some time to adjust to Hong Kong as
  she found the Cantonese cuisine very different
  from that of her native Shanghai.

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Work

• While she worked at Shaw Brothers, her popularity
  grew and she became one of the first stakeholders
  in the up and coming TV broadcast station TVB. In
  1967, Shum's stardom took off with the popular
  television variety show Enjoy Your Tonight. She
  first sang in the Canto-pop group the Four Golden
  Flowers. Later, she played a Shanghai woman in
  the 1970.
• Shum has been established mainly as a comic and
  dramatic actress but is not limited to films in
  those genres.
• Shum starred in Singapore's Channel 5 sitcom
  Living with Lydia and Cantonese series. Her
  performance in Living with Lydia won her the
  "Best Comedy Performance by an Actress" award at
  the 2003 Asian Television Awards. It was also the
  first time she had acted in an English drama.

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Family

• Shum married actor and singer Cheng Siu Chow in
  January 1985 after 11 years of cohabitation. On
  January 5, 1985, Cheng and Shum flew to
  Vancouver, Canada where they got married. On May
  30, 1987, Cheng Yan Yee was born to Shum and Adam
  Cheng. Eight months after their daughter was
  born, Cheng and Shum divorced.
• In September 2006, Shum was diagnosed with a
  liver tumor and cancer around the gallbladder.
  Doctors immediately removed one third of her
  liver. On February 19, 2008, at 3am, her family
  decided that Shum's life support should be
  withdrawn. It was decided that her breathing
  apparatus would be removed and that her family
  spend time with her by her bedside. Shum died at
  838 a.m. on February 19, 2008. She was 62 years
  old.

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Opinion

• I like her because she was the champion. When the
  doctor told her she had cancer, she didnt give
  up.
• In my opinion, she was very nice and kind, so I
  like her.
• I think Lydia Shum was a very courageous person
  so she is my role model.
• She was very scholarly and was a very good
  example to us.
• She was a professional actress so I admire her
  very much.
• When I knew she was dead, I felt very sad because
  she had given us lots of fun.

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