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任冰兒1931年9月20日出生，廣東南海人，乳名「細女」，戲行尊稱「細女姐」，丈夫係名伶石燕子，堂姐為粵劇紅伶任劍輝，她有「二幫王」的美譽。她五歲由廣州移居澳門，曾讀聖羅撒女子學校，並隨筱曼霞學戲，十一歲初踏台板，由最低微的「梅香」做起，在南灣遊樂場同何非凡、鄧碧雲的戲班任梅香，其後按部就班升至「二幫花旦」。1940年代中她加入澳門的新聲粵劇團，獲鄧碧雲僱用，得以升為二幫花旦；重光後隨新聲移師香港，自此演出不絕，歷年踏遍五王、慶紅佳、頌新聲、新馬、祝華年、大龍鳳、麗聲、仙鳳鳴、雛鳳鳴、鳴芝聲、錦添花、日月星等劇團。1956年任劍輝、白雪仙創立仙鳳鳴劇團，她出任「二幫花旦」，首本戲為《牡丹亭驚夢》，直至劇團解散，期間參演《花田八喜》《西樓錯夢》《帝女花》《紫釵記》《白蛇新傳》等名劇。她與朱日紅、李香琴、梁素琴、黎坤蓮、金影憐、許卿卿、英麗梨、譚倩紅等八位二幫花旦結義金蘭，合稱「九大姐」。她僅有的兩次「正印」演出都在外地：1952年隨黃超武赴東南亞演《斬龍遇仙》，1971年隨鄧碧雲赴美洲登台。1977年，她在堂姐任劍輝遊說下加入雛鳳鳴劇團，一直演出至2007年於澳門的《帝女花》為止。1948年她踏足影壇，首作為《好女兩頭瞞》，後來參演《十三妹大鬧能仁寺》（1948）、《九天玄女》（1959）、《紫釵記》（1959）、《無情寶劍有情天》（1964）等，最後一部電影係《李後主》（1968）；其中《無情寶劍有情天》的嫦姐姐一角心理層次豐富，成為她的首本戲。1994年她參演亞洲電視《碧血青天楊家將》。2012年她獲香港藝術發展局頒授「2011香港藝術發展獎」之「傑出藝術貢獻獎」。2022年5月21日凌晨，她在家中睡夢中安詳離世，享年90歲。
English
Yam Bing-yee, born in Nanhai, Guangdong on 20 September 1931 and nicknamed Sai-neui, was honoured in the trade as Sister Sai-neui; her husband was the Cantonese opera actor Sek Yin-ji and her cousin was the renowned actress Yam Kim-fai, and she was celebrated as the 'king of second leads'. Moving from Guangzhou to Macau at five, she studied under Siu Man-ha and first stepped on stage at eleven, beginning at the lowliest rank of maidservant and advancing to principal second female lead. In the mid-1940s she joined the Sun Sing Opera Troupe in Macau, where Tang Bik-wan's employment helped her rise, and, after the war, moved with it to Hong Kong, appearing thereafter with troupes such as Ng Wong, Hing Hung Kai, Chor Fung Ming, Sun Ma, Tai Lung Fung, Sin Fung Ming, Chun Fung Ming and Kam Tim Fa. When Yam Kim-fai and Pak Suet-sin founded Sin Fung Ming in 1956 she became its principal second female lead, her first role being in The Peony Pavilion, and until the troupe disbanded she appeared in such celebrated works as The Flower-Patterned Shoes, The Dream of the West Chamber, Princess Cheung Ping and The Purple Hairpin. She was one of the 'Nine Sisters', a sisterhood of nine leading second female leads. Her only two appearances as leading lady were abroad, in Southeast Asia with Wong Chiu-mo in 1952 and in America with Tang Bik-wan in 1971. She entered films in 1948 and acted in works including The Merciful Sword and the Sentimental Heaven (1964), whose complex heroine became her signature role. In 2012 she received the Hong Kong Arts Development Council's Award for Outstanding Contribution in Arts, and she died peacefully in her sleep at home on 21 May 2022, aged 90.
