Taiwanese Actress Barbie Hsu, Star of Popular Drama ‘Meteor Garden,’ Dies at Age 48

Taiwanese Actress Barbie Hsu, Star of Popular Drama ‘Meteor Garden,’ Dies at Age 48
Taiwanese singer Barbie Hsu smiles as she arrives at the 26th Golden Melody Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, on June 27, 2015. Wally Santana/AP Photo
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TAIPEI, Taiwan—Barbie Hsu, a Taiwanese actress who starred in the popular TV drama “Meteor Garden” that once swept Asia, died after contracting pneumonia triggered by the flu. She was 48.

Hsu, better known as “Da S” which means “Big S,” caught the flu when she visited Japan with her family during the Lunar New Year, according to her younger sister, Dee Hsu, also a famed TV host. Dee Hsu said the pneumonia was a flu complication.