Pik-Sen Lim

Malaysian British actress

Pik Sen Lim (, born 15 September 1944) is a Malaysian British actress. According to the British Film Institute, Lim was "the most familiar Chinese actor on British television screens in the 1970s and 80s." Her notable roles include Chin Lee in the 1971 Doctor Who serial The Mind of Evil, Chung Su Lee on the ITV sitcom Mind Your Language (1977–79), Tsai Adams on the military drama Spearhead (1978–81), and the killer cleaner in Johnny English Reborn (2011). She was also the narrator for the Dark Souls video game series. 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. The couple's daughter, Sara Houghton, is also an actress; 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 as Chin Lee (a role she later reprised in an audiodrama from Big Finish Productions), and the first three seasons of the sitcom Mind Your Language speaking Penang Hokkien as her Chinese language. 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). She is the narrator of the Dark Souls series of video games. 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.

+ Theatre Credits Year Title Role Notes 1964 The Bacchae of Euripides Chorus 2012 The Sugar Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie Mrs Gao Produced by Finborough Theatre.