Lydia Tin Ha Sum

Sum was one of Hong Kong's most beloved actors and comedians.

Cheng is now a singer, writer and actress in her own right. Her realistic portrayal of working-class women struck a chord with audiences, helping it top Hong Kong’s box office in 1973. She made her on-screen debut in a Mandarin comedy called When the Peach Blossoms Bloom that same year.

Google Doodle's is celebrating Hong Kong's popular Lydia Tin Ha Sum's 77th birthday today. Who is the beloved actress and comedian?

The film became a classic and continues to encourage conversation on social inequality to this day. Sum then went onto star in a popular Cantonese film 'The House of 72 Tenants' where her role as a working-class woman stole the limelight. Sum was a beloved artist in Hong Kong easily spotted with her trademark glasses and bouffant hairstyle.

Google Doodle is honouring one of Hong Kong's most beloved comedians Lydia Tin Ha Sum who also acted in a hit Singapore sitcom.

Lydia had a glorious career in show business. Lydia portrayed the role of Lydia Lum, a Hong Kong-based restaurateur and widowed mother of two who moves to a new locale in Singapore after her Dim Sum establishment in Hong Kong is hit with a false case of food poisoning. She is donning her signature short hair and dark-rimmed spectacles.

Lydia Shum Din-ha or Lydia Tin Ha Sum was a Chinese-born Hong Kong comedian, MC, actress, and singer known for her portly figure, signature dark-rimmed.

Prior to her death, she was known to be suffering from liver cancer, which she had fought for two years. Shum died at 8:38 a.m. local time that day. It was with pain and heartbreak as the family decided that her breathing apparatus would be removed and that her family spend time with her by her bedside.