Known for
Acting
Born
July 18, 1909
Birthplace
Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
Died
September 14, 1990 (aged 81)
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Lotus Long (born Lotus Pearl Shibata, July 18, 1909 – September 14, 1990) was an American actress.
Long was born in New Jersey to a father of Japanese ancestry and a mother of Hawaiian ancestry. She came to Southern California during the 1920s to act in Hollywood films, and usually portrayed ethnic Asian female characters in supporting roles. She used the name "Lotus Long" for stage and film. Because of her adopted surname, people generally assumed that she was of Chinese ancestry – something she later relied on to avoid mass incarceration in American internment camps with other persons of Japanese ancestry, both legal permanent residents and American...
1959
Producer, Writer
1949
as Eskimo girl
1946
as Tokyo Rose
1942
as Children's Matron (uncredited)
1941
as Ann Kuo
1940
as Win Lee, Benton's Secretary
1939
as Princess Lin Hwa
1939
as Drina
1938
as Lotus Liu
1938
as L-Ana
1937
as Lela Liu
1937
as Lia Sen
1936
as Marie
1935
as Lilleo
1935
as Moonflower
1934
as Li Sung
1933
as Iva (uncredited)
1929
as Feliti--prologue