Pik-Sen Lim

Lim was born to Malayan Chinese parents in Penang, Straits Settlements (occupied by Japan at the time of her birth), and was the daughter of the palm oil millionaire Lim Cheng-Teik. She attended convent school in Penang, where she was nicknamed "Pixie". Against the wishes of her family, she moved to the United Kingdom at the age of 16 to study at the London School of Dramatic Art.

Her birth name was romanized Lim Phaik-Seng, but she changed her given name to "Pik-Sen" since her British friends would mispronounce "Phaik" as "fake".

In 1964, she appeared in the hospital drama series Emergency – Ward 10, playing a nurse. There she met scriptwriter Don Houghton, whom she married in 1968.[3] The couple's daughter, Sara Houghton, is also an actress;[1] the two women once portrayed characters with the same relationship in Three Thousand Troubled Threads.[4] Sara also appeared in a serial of Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures called The Curse of Clyde Langer.

She also appeared in Don Houghton scripted Doctor Who serial The Mind of Evil in 1971, and the first three seasons of the sitcom Mind Your Language speaking Penang Hokkien as her Chinese language.[5][6] Here, she was obliged to speak in an exaggerated, stereotyped Chinese accent. Her later appearances are roles in the short lived soap operas Albion Market (1985) and Night and Day (2003), as well as Arabian Nights (2000), The Bill (2005), and as a character in the comedy series Little Britain (2004).[7]

She is the narrator of the Dark Souls series of video games.[2]

In 1966, she was invited to be Rye Fawkes at the Rye Bonfire celebrations. This involved being sat in a sedan chair, hoisted aloft and being carried down from the Landgate in Rye to the bonfire, where she was presented with a burning torch with which she set the bonfire alight.

• Ooi, Teresa (16 February 1984), Good times, bad times, The Straits Times

• Pik-Sen Lim at IMDb
• Pik-Sen Lim at the BFI's Screenonline