

Daughter Rebecca drew on her family's experiences being biracial but 'passing' as white to direct film Passing, about two black women who do the same.Met husband Sir Peter at Glyndebourne, an English opera house with an annual opera festival, while he was married to his second wife.


Being a professional Peking Opera actor, he holds the art in great respect and always puts his heart into each and every performance. He always has his mind on creating the best performance possible. Even during break times between acts, he makes sure to touch up on his face paint. Meng Guanglu insists on rehearsing many times with other actors before each performance. Even though he has performed thousands of times over the years, Meng remarks that he still gets nervous each time on stage. His all-time favorite role to act is Bao Zheng, a role he performs at least one hundred times each year. Meng Guanglu has now performed in Peking Opera for over 50 years. For three years, he traveled back and forth between Jinan city in Shandong province and Tianjin every week to learn how to perform Peking Opera. He quickly fell in love with this unique style of performance and became dedicated to learning the art. Meng Guanglu heard his neighbors performing Peking Opera for the first time near Haihe river in Tianjin. Meng Guanglu specializes in the painted-face role. There are four types of characters in Peking Opera, the male role, female role, painted- face role, and comic role.
