Pui Fan Lee

Pui Fan Lee (born July 14, 1971) is a British-Chinese actress and presenter. She is known for portraying Po and the English voice for Po in the original series. As she came from Chinese descent, Pui gave Po a little Cantonese in her character by having her say some Cantonese phrases, most notably 'Fi-dit, Fi-dit' (Faster, Faster) and 'Yāt, yih, sàam' (One, Two, Three).

After the original series ended, Pui Fan Lee continued to work in children's television. Other than Po, she is also known for being a former presenter on Cbeebies. Currently she works with other former Cbeebies presenter Chris Jarvis on their own programme 'Show Me, Show Me'. In the 2015 reboot, she was replaced by Rachelle Beinart.

Guest appearances:

Today (2007) guest (as Po and herself) (NBC)

The Paul O'Grady Show (2009) guest (as Po) (Channel 4)

Trivia

• When Pui worked as a presenter for Cbeebies, she would do Po's voice when it was time was for the birthday cards and a Teletubbies card came up.
• In 2001, she took on the role of a lesbian in the Channel 4 show 'Metro sexuality'. It caused a bit of controversy, however Pui didn't take the role to be controversial and just done because she is an actress.
• Apparently Pui Fan Lee helped train the actors for the new series of Teletubbies.