Rina Hasyim

Hasyim was born Rineke Antoinette Hassim in Makassar, South Sulawesi, on 22 April 1947.[1] Raised strictly by her mother, she began rebelling and gravitated towards music. She was a member of the bands Dara Kusumah and Diskonit while a youth, playing the bass.[2]

After completing senior high school, Hasyim moved to the national capital in Jakarta. Living with her aunt, she began to work at a travel agency. She was soon invited to start modelling by Rima Melati, an actress and model.[2] In 1968 she obtained her first film role, a bit part, in Turino Djunaidy's Orang-orang Liar;[1] she obtained the role when her coworker at the travel agency, Mochtar, introduced her to Djunaidy.[2]

Hasyim soon married Chris Pattikawa, an employee at the national broadcaster TVRI; the two had two daughters the following years.[2] In 1970 she appeared in her second role, and first major one, playing a main character's girlfriend in the film Si Pitung.[3] Over the next 25 years Hasyim acted in over a hundred films, sometimes six a year. In 1995 she made Gairah & Dosa, which proved her last feature film for over a decade.[3] She instead focused on television.[2] In 2007 Hasyim returned to cinema with Pocong 3, a horror film about pocong. She has acted in several films since then, though not at as high a rate as during the 1980s.[3]

As of September 2013, Widjaja has acted in 113 films.[3] She has been won several acting awards. In 1976 she won the Citra Award for Best Leading Actress for her role in Semalam di Malaysia. In 1987 her role in Akibat Kanker Payudara garnered her a Best Supporting Actress at the Asia Pacific Film Festival. Four years later, she won the Citra Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Zig Zag (Anak Jalanan); she had previously received five nominations for the award, in 1979, 1981, 1985, 1986, and 1988.[4]

Source: (filmindonesia.or.id, Filmografi)

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