Taiwanese actress Barbie Hsu, who starred in hit 2001 sequence Meteor Backyard, has died from pneumonia on the age of 48.
Her sister, Dee Hsu, confirmed her demise to native Taiwanese media by way of an announcement and stated that Barbie Hsu handed away from pneumonia after falling in poor health throughout a household journey to Japan.
Barbie and Dee Hsu started their careers collectively in a pop duo, earlier than selecting up TV internet hosting and performing roles.
Barbie Hsu, who had a historical past of epilepsy and coronary heart illness, was hospitalised beforehand resulting from seizures.
Hsu additionally starred in TV sequence like Summer time’s Need and Nook With Love, in addition to movies like Reign of Assassins and Motorway.
Taiwan‘s Meteor Backyard was a sequence adaptation of a Nineteen Nineties Japanese comedian of the identical title. Hsu performed Shan Cai, a young person from a middle-class household who attends an elite non-public college and turns into caught in a love internet with the heirs of rich households.
Hsu’s 4 male Meteor Backyard co-stars later fashioned the Taiwanese boyband F4, which grew to become some of the widespread Mandopop teams within the 2000s.
Hsu was married to South Korean singer DJ Koo, and had two youngsters from a earlier marriage.
