Tsai Chin

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Biography

Tsai Chin, pinyin Zhou Caiqin is an actor, director, teacher and author, best known in America for her film role as Auntie Lindo in The Joy Luck Club. The third daughter of Zhou Xinfang, China's great actor in the last century, she was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art London in London's West End,The World of Susie Wong and on Broadway, Golden Child; played the two most powerful women of 20th century China; for television, in The Subject of Struggle; for stage Memories of Madame Mao; was twice in Bond films, as Bond girl in You Only Live Twice, and later in Casino Royale. Her single The Ding Dong Song recorded for Decca was top of the charts in Asia. She was the first to be invited to teach acting in China after the Cultural Revolution when universities re-opened. She is now celebrated in China for her portrayal of Jia Mu in the recent TV drama series, The Dream of The Red Chamber. Her international best-selling autobiography, Daughter of Shanghai is to be a stage play by David Henry Hwang which will be produced by the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Perfoming Arts in Beverly Hills.

  • Aliases
  • Irene Chow
  • Primary profession
  • Actress·music_department·soundtrack
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Female
  • Birth date
  • 22 December 1957
  • Place of birth
  • Kaohsiung
  • Spouses
  • Edward Yang
  • Education
  • Royal Academy of Dramatic Art·Tufts University·Shih Chien University
  • Knows language
  • Standard Chinese
  • Parents
  • Zhou Xinfang

Music

Movies

TV

Books

Trivia

Paternal aunt of actress China Chow and Maximillian Chow.

Older sister of Michael Chow. Their father was the iconic traditional Chinese actor, Xinfang Zhou.

An Associate Member of RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art). She was the first ever Chinese member.

Speaks Mandarin, English, and French.

Ex-sister-in-law of Tina Chow.

She appeared in three films with her younger brother Michael Chow : Violent Playground , The Brides of Fu Manchu and You Only Live Twice .

She was awarded the 1995 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Featured Performance for "The Woman Warrior" in presented by the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson at the James A. Doolittle (University of California) Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

Made 9 films with Christopher Lee: The Face of Fu Manchu, The Brides of Fu Manchu, The Vengeance of Fu Manchu, The Blood of Fu Manchu, Sax Rohmers The Castle of Fu Manchu, Hot Money Girl, the documentary Hollywood Chinese and the documentary shorts The Rise of Fu Manchu and The Fall of Fu Manchu.

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