New Delhi, July 13 -- NEW YORK - Peter Shinkoda had just seen the news when he typed out the tribute. "Just lost someone very special to me," the actor wrote online. "She was one of the coolest." Shinkoda, who appeared alongside Wai Ching Ho in Netflix's Daredevil, added that he had learned from her "every minute" they were together. Wai Ching Ho, the Hong Kong-born actress who transformed an ostensibly secondary villainous role into one of the most quietly unnerving presences in the Marvel streaming universe, has died at 82.

Her agent, Laurence Wreford, confirmed the death to TVLine on Sunday. No cause was given.

Ho's most recognizable role was Madame Gao, the ancient, icily composed crime lord who operated beneath Hell's Kitchen with ...