Yang Lina (, 1963 - 20 March 2010), also known as Lina Yang, was a

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Character (arts), character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek ...

. She was prominently a full-time

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artiste from 1983 to 2009 and was often cast as conniving, plotting characters. She died on 20 March 2010 due to

uterine cancer Uterine cancer, also known as womb cancer, includes two types of cancer that develop from the tissues of the uterus. Endometrial cancer forms from the lining of the uterus, and uterine sarcoma forms from the muscles or support tissue of the uteru ...

, aged 47.

Personal life

Yang became an actress in 1984 after previously working as a bank employee. She had attended an acting class with her younger sister,

Yang Libing Yang Libing () is a former Singaporean Mediacorp actress. She was prominently a full-time artiste from 1983 to 2009. Career Yang first entered the entertainment industry during the 1984 after she attended the SBC's drama training course with h ...

, and then joined the

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, which is now part of

MediaCorp Mediacorp Pte. Ltd., doing business as Mediacorp and stylised as mediacorp, is a media conglomerate in Singapore. Owned by Temasek Holdings—the holding company of the Government of Singapore—it owns television, radio, and digital media prope ...

. Her most well known roles included the 1986 film, ''Neighbours'', and ''

Samsui Women The term Samsui women (, mandarin for 'red headscarf') broadly refers to a group of Chinese female immigrants who came to Malaya and Singapore between the 1920s and 1940s in search of construction and industrial jobs. These women hailed mostly ...

''. She married her husband Chau Kim Wa, a

make-up artist A make-up artist, also called a makeup artist, and often shortened to MUA, is an artist whose medium is the human body, applying makeup and prosthetics on others for theatre, television, film, fashion, magazines and other similar productions inc ...

, in 1992. She took two professional breaks from acting to give birth to her two daughters. Yang opened a hair salon with her sister in 2004. She was diagnosed with

during the late 2000s, but continued to act sporadically. She died of cancer in the home of her younger sister,

, on 20 March 2010. Her age was 47. Yang is survived by her younger sister.

Filmography

References

Singaporean film actresses Singaporean television actresses 20th-century Singaporean actresses 21st-century Singaporean actresses 1963 births 2010 deaths Deaths from cancer in Singapore Deaths from uterine cancer {{Singapore-actor-stub