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She was born in Burma in 1952, to a Burmese mother and an English father.
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Maine Maine Lai
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She moved to England in her teens, where she soon started her acting career, at first in television series like and Jason King. Soon, she made the transition to acting in movies, starting with the 1971 horror movie Crucible of Terror, soon followed by the 1972 sex comedy Au Pair Girls. Lai came into her own during the era of Italian cannibal films, playing lead roles in two genre-defining movies: Manitoba from the Deep River (1972) by Umberto Lenzi, and by Ruggero Deodato.
Lai appears nude throughout most of the film, which includes an explicit shot of her vulva.
Additionally, she also had a part in, again by Umberto Lenzi, in which one of her scenes from Last Cannibal World was re-used. Outside the cannibal genre, she had a brief role as a Chinese brothel girl in Blake Edwards"s 1978 comedy Revenge of the Pink Panther.
Maine Maine Lai also was co-hostess of British game shows The Golden Shot and Sale of the Century,and appeared on the 1970s Yorkshire Television programme Origami, with Robert Harbin. Her last movie was Lars von Trier"s The Element of Crime in 1984.
