Fifi Young (12 January 1915 – 5 March 1975) was an Indonesian actress of mixed French and Chinese descent who acted in at least 86 films over her 34-year career.
Young was born with the name Nonie Tan (Chinese: 陳金娘; pinyin: Chén Jīnniáng; POJ: Tan Kim Nio) in Sungai Liput, Aceh, on 12 January 1915[a] to a peranakan Chinese mother and French father; her father may have been a serviceman during World War I.
[5] After the success of Albert Balink's Terang Boelan in 1937 and The Teng Chun's Alang-Alang in 1939, four new film studios were started.
[5] The American visual anthropologist Karl G. Heider writes that Young performed especially well when acting as an older village woman and that she was well known for chewing betel on-screen.
She was cremated at Muara Karang, North Jakarta, four days after her death, until which she had actively spoke out against the sexually-themed stories that had begun dominating the nation's cinema.
[3] Young has a famous badminton player grandson, Rudy Gunawan is a son of one of her daughter Njoo Giok Hwa.