Actress Cheng Pei-pei, best known for her martial arts roles in films such as “Come Drink with Me” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” has died. She was 78.
“It is with a heavy heart that we announce that the rumors are true. Our mother, Cheng Pei Pei, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by her loved ones on July 17,” her family wrote in a statement posted on Facebook Friday. They shared that she was living with a rare, progressive disease known as corticobasal degeneration .
Born in Shanghai in 1946, Cheng trained in ballet while at school before moving to Hong Kong as a teenager. She then enrolled in a performing arts training course at film production company Shaw Brothers Studio, a pioneer of the kung fu film genre, according to the website Hong Kong Movie Database . This led Cheng to establish her acting career in Shaw Brothers films, such as 1964 historical drama “The Last Woman of Shang,” in which she played a dancer, and 1964 romance “Lover’s Rock” .
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