British actress Pik-Sen Lim, best known for her roles on shows including Doctor Who and Mind Your Language, has died aged 80.
Born in British Malaya in 1944, Lim migrated to Britain when she was just 16 to pursue an acting career.
Her first screen credit came a few years later when, in 1964, she played a nurse in the hospital drama Emergency Ward 10.
It was on the set of this show that she also met scriptwriter Don Houghton, whom she married in 1968 and went on to have daughter Sara Houghton, also an actress, with.
In 1971 Lim played Chin Lee in the Doctor Who serial The Mind of Evil, which was written by her husband.
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The actress also went on to appear in the first three seasons of the sitcom Mind Your Language.
However, it’s now been announced that the actress died earlier this month.
Paying tribute to Lim, actor Daniel York Loh wrote on Instagram: ‘An iconic figure in so many ways, I’d seen her on TV in Mind Your Language amongst other things when I was a kid…
‘She was so affectionate, so witty, so brilliantly scabrous and absolutely honest about the rubbish this industry deals actors of our heritage – unlike a fair few others who actually try and cape it.
‘We’ll miss you so much but thank you, Pixi, for blessing our lives with your unique presence.’
Meanwhile director Barnaby Edwards shared: ‘My abiding memory of Pik-Sen “Call me Pixie” Lim is of the utter delight she inspired in those of us lucky enough to work with her.
‘She was acting alongside her daughter, Sara, and their relationship was a joy to behold: Sara was the responsible adult; Pixie, the naughty child.
‘And nowhere was this mischief more in evidence than during the wildtrack session at the end of the day.’
Other notable roles throughout Lim’s career came in Albion Market, Night and Day, Arabian Nights, The Bill, Little Britain, This Way Up and Vampire Academy.
She also played the killer cleaner in the 2011 film Johnny English Reborn, while her last screen credit came in an episode of the American science fiction drama The Nevers in 2023.
Lim was also known for being the narrator of the Dark Souls video game series.
According to the British Film Institute, Lim was ‘the most familiar Chinese actor on British television screens in the 1970s and 80s.’
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