Me Me Lai

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Me Me Lai was born in Burma 1952, to a Burmese mother and an English father. She moved to England in her teens, where she soon started her acting career, first in TV-series like Paul Temple and Jason King, soon though she made her transition to movies, in films like the horror movie Crucible of Terror from 1971 or the softcore erotic piece Au Pair Girls from 1972. However, she really came into her own in the shortlived Italian cannibal movie genre. Here she played in two genre defining movies, Il Paese del Sesso Selvaggio (1972) by Umberto Lenzi and Ultimo Mondo Cannibale (1977) by Ruggero Deodato as well as the highly derivative Mangiati Vivi (1980), again by Umberto Lenzi, in which even her death scene was re-used from Ultimo Mondo Cannibale. Surprisingly, besides her career in rather sleazy films (she did nude scenes in all the above-mentioned films, even Crucible of Terror, where her on-screen time amounted to less than a minute), Me Me Lai also was co-hostess of British (mainstream-)gameshows like The Golden Shot or Sale of the Century. Me Me Lai's last movie was Lars von Trier's Element of Crime in 1985. Me Me Lai seems to have completely vanished from the public eye still then, leaving behind an interesting mix of horror, trash, arthouse and gameshows.