A fast radiative decay process for long-wavelength molecular light-emitters is vital to achieving a high emission efficiency by outcompeting the nonradiative decay imposed by the energy-gap law. An ensuing short emission lifetime is also beneficial for fabricating high-performance organic light-emitting diodes. Herein a series of half-lantern dinuclear platinum(II) complexes is reported, which shows high-efficiency deep red phosphorescence (𝝀 em > 660 nm). The molecules are designed to have a cofacially aligned structure featuring short Pt-Pt distances of 2.80-2.83 Å by using 10H-pyrido[3,2-b][1,4]benzoxazine (PyXZ) as the rigid bridges, which are revealed by single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. Together with the strong electron-donating property of PyXZ bridges, the metallophilic interaction endows low-energy triplet excited states with mixed metal-metal-to-ligand charge-transfer ( 3 MMLCT) and ligand-to-ligand charge-transfer ( 3 LLCT) characters. The deep red devices based on the diplatinum(II) complexes show maximum external quantum efficiencies (EQEs) up to 21.8%. The EQE of 19.4% and operational lifetime (LT 85 ) of 334 h (the operational time after which the luminance drops to 85% of the initial value) at a luminance of 1000 cd m −2 promise the pratical use of these complexes.