Barbie HSU, Taiwanese actress, television presenter and pop star, who catapulted a pan-Asian popularity in 2001 as a star of the “Meteor Garden” teenage-style drama, died on February 2 in Tokyo. She was 48 years old.
Her death was announced by TVBs News in Taiwan, her sister Dee Hsu, who said it was the cause of the flu complication. The family was vacationing in Japan.
In the “Meteor Garden” adaptation of the Japanese manga “boys over flowers”, Mrs. HSU played Dong Shan Cai, a naive but strong student from a poor family terrorized by a group of four convenient boys who call themselves F4 after enrolling in an elite private school that they attend. She reluctantly enters the high society when the F4 leader, you gave Ming (acting Jerry Yan), falls for her.
With her expressive eyes and Elfin, Mrs. Hsu was natural for the role, and she exploded in popularity through the Swaths of Azia, where he was known for the nickname of Big S.
Fans were particularly attracted to the relative and resistant nature of her character. “I’m like grass,” she said in one episode. “No matter how many times you have reduced me, I will grow again and live.”
Four men’s stars used the influence of the series to promote their boyish band, also called the F4 – for “Flower Four” – making a “Meteor Garden” with an early example of a genre known as an idol drama, a formulatory but infectious love story with pop stars. Mrs. Hsu’s character became the classic protagonist of the genre.
As Mei Ting Li, a professor of media studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, who specializes in Fanda and popular culture, she wrote in the email, “She became an archetype TV drama in Chinese language that provided business services in the celebrity media. “
The popularity of the series led to later emissions adapted to the same original material, including the Chinese drama in 2018 and the extremely successful “Boys Over Flowers” (2009).
Its popularity expanded all the way to the Philippines, where it became one of the highest rated shows in the country, inspiring quasi-religious fervor among young people who became known as “meteor fever”. The Philippine men accepted the diskette and dress of their favorite characters, and the stars were mobile when they visited the country.
During one visit, 2003, the media conglomerate ABS-CBN, which broadcast “Meteor Garden”, used actors to decorate In Perics to distract the paparazzi, and about 100 police officers are deployed to manage rude crowds.
HSI-Yuan Hsu was born on October 6, 1976 in Taipe, Taiwan, Huang Chun-Mei and Hsu Chien. The household was tumultuous: the mother separated from her father for gambling. Barbie’s mother supported her and her two sisters working as a real estate mediator.
In 1994, Mrs. Hsu and her younger sister Dee enrolled at the HWA Kang Art School in Taipei, where they befriended a group of classes who had transcended seven villas, including actresses and singers of Mavis fans, Pace Wu and Aya Liu.
While they were in Hwa Kang, HSU sisters began to perform as a pop duo known as SOS or sisters shu; Their pop song Bubblegum of 1995 “Ten minutes of Love” became a hit. Later, they changed their name to ASOS, for all sisters Shu, and co -emphasized the varieties of shows like “Guess”, from 1996 to 2000, and “100% of the parties”, from 1998 to 2005.
Mrs. Hsu took advantage of her fame “Meteor Garden” to promote the two best -selling guides of the beauty, published in 2004 and 2007, who encouraged readers to try the faces of red wine to prevent aging and rogain to thicken her eyebrows.
In 2008, she branched out in a cinema in Chinese, playing a woman abducted by interpola agents at “Connected”, Remake Hollywood thriller from 2004. “Cellular”. In 2010, she played a sadistic young woman who killed her fiancé and his parents in her wedding night in the movie Martial Skign of Assassins, starring Michelle Yeoh.
Mrs. Hsu retired from acting in 2011, but her tumultuous relationship with the Chinese businessman Wang Xiaofi, with whom she married in 2010, kept her in the spotlight; They divorced in 2021. Her survivors include the son of HSI-Llin and the daughter of HSI-Yueh, as well as her second husband Koo Jun-Yup, a South Korean singer known as DJ Koo, with whom she married 2022.
Mrs. HSU experienced many health problems, including heart disease and epilepsy, as well as almost a fatal seizure during her son’s birth. Her death sent cracks of sadness in Asia and trained on Weib, a Chinese social media platform. South Chinese Morning Post reported That many of her bereaved fans have turned to Chinese start for the artificial intelligence of Deep-up to construct farewell letters mimicing her writing style.
Many of these letters noticed her phrase with the signature, “You live nicely.”
