Opera Singer. A respected star of her country's silver screen, she is better remembered as an icon of Cantonese Opera, the distinctive art form of southern China. Born Kuang Jianlian, she was taught to sing from an early age by her aunt and made her professional bow in 1939, at that time taking the stage name Hung Sun-lui ("Red Line Girl"). During World War II she relocated to Hong Kong where she sang many of the roughly 100 Cantonese operas, pieces with such titles as "The Spoiled Brat and Her Groom", "Bitter Phoenix", and "Sorrowful Oracle", she would eventually perform, and where she made her 1947 silver screen bow in "Unforgettable Love". Hung was to appear in over 100 film features, her credits including 1948's "The Judge Goes to Pieces", the 1953 "A Mother's Tears", "The Matchmaker", "Everlasting Love", and "The Pretty Tigress" (all 1955), and 1956's "Wilderness". Returning home in 1955, she joined the Guandong Cantonese Opera Troupe with which she was associated for eight years, continuing to perform while she mentored younger artists. During the Cultural Revolution of the mid 1960s, Hung became an unperson; called "Black Line Girl", she was forced to work as a street sweeper and to endure verbal and physical abuse. From the mid 1970s on she was gradually allowed back into the arts community, eventually to achieve the status of a revered elder. Though Hung essentially disappeared from the movie business after 1962's "Heart to Heart", she did a voice-over as late as 2009. Remaining active into advanced years, Hung continued to visit artistic events until shortly before her death from a heart attack. Since 1998 much of her legacy has been preserved at her home city's Hungxiannu Arts Center.