Suzanna Martha Frederika van Osch (Bogor

Bogor

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, October 14, 1942 - Magelang

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, October 15, 2008) was an Indonesia

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n actress of Indo-European (Eurasian) descent. Known as the "horror queen of Indonesian cinema", she is well known in particular in Indonesia for portraying the mythical ghost prostitute Sundel Bolong

Sundel Bolong

In Javanese and Malaysian mythology, a Sundel Bolong is mythical ghost from the archipelago which is generally described as woman with beautiful long hair and a long white dress...

 in the 1981/2 film Sundelbolong

Sundelbolong

Sundel Bolong or Sundelbolong is a 1981 Indonesian adult horror film directed by Sisworo Gautama Putra. The film is about the Javanese mythical prostitute ghost Sundel Bolong and stars Suzzanna...

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Biography

Suzzanna, who has Javanese-Manado

Manado

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-German-Dutch

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 heritage, started out as a child actress and later became one of the biggest stars of Indonesian horror cinema

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. She was awarded the Best Child Actress Award at the 1960 Asian Film Festival and was crowned as Asia

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's most popular actress at the 1972 Asia-Pacific Film Festival in Seoul

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Indonesians know her as The Indonesian Horror Queen, Not only because her acting but also because of her mystic lifestyle. Some people says that she looked young in her old age because she ate jasmine

Jasmine

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 flower

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She was married twice. First with actor Dicky Suprapto. After their divorce, she married actor Clift Sangra. Her daughter from her first marriage, Kiki Maria, is also an actress. She retired from films in the 1990s but made a comeback in Hantu Ambulance, 2008.However,it would be her final appearance.

She passed away on October 15th,2008,due to diabetes.

Filmography

• Girl's Dormitory (1958)
• Penanggalan (1967)
• The Earth is Getting Hotter (1967)
• Birth in the Tomb (1972)
• Queen of Black Magic (1979)
• The Hungry Snake Woman (1982)
• Sangkuriang (1982)
• Sundelbolong
  Sundelbolong
  Sundel Bolong or Sundelbolong is a 1981 Indonesian adult horror film directed by Sisworo Gautama Putra. The film is about the Javanese mythical prostitute ghost Sundel Bolong and stars Suzzanna...
  
   (1982)
• Samson dan Delilah (1987)
• Hantu Ambulance (2008)

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