SINGAPORE - Model-actor Godfrey Gao died on Wednesday morning (Nov 27) after he collapsed while filming Chinese variety series Chase Me in Ningbo, Zhejiang.

The Taiwan-born Canadian was 35.

Gao was born to a Taiwanese father and a Malaysian mother of Peranakan descent. His mother, who is from Penang, was once a beauty queen in Malaysia. His father reportedly used to be a general manager for tyre manufacturer Michelin in Taiwan.