Ouyang Sha Fei was a Hong Kong actress born in Suzhou, Jiangsu, Republic of China. She famously starred in over 250 films in a 54-year period, between 1937 and 1991. At the age of 17, she began her acting career in several Mandarin movies in Shanghai. She was in 17 films between 1951 and 1952, making her one of the busiest actresses in the Hong Kong film industry in her time. For most of the movies in her early career, she collaborated with her director and husband, Tu Guang Qi. This partnership lasted until 1956.

In the early 1960s, she signed with the Shaw Brothers Studio. She exclusively acted in their films until the late 1970s. As her career matured in the late 1970s, she primarily took on roles of the mother or aunt in films and received two awards as the Best Supporting Role. While in Taiwan, she collaborated primarily with local Taiwanese TV networks. After returning to Hong Kong, she made cameos in many TV shows and movies and finally retired in 1990.

As her acting career took off in the 1940s, she married her director, Tu Guang Qi. In the 1950s, the married couple escaped to Hong Kong to escape the political turmoil in China. They separated in 1956 and got divorced. In 1979, she remarried and relocated to the United States. When her new spouse died the next year, she relocated to Taiwan. She later returned to Hong Kong. After retiring in 1990, she relocated to the US for a few years and experienced a bad fall in 2009. Her health declined until she died of organ failure on August 5, 2010, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

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