Tsai Chin
Actor
Biography
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Tsai Chin, also known by her Chinese name Zhou Caiqin, is an actress, director, teacher and author, best known in America for her role as Auntie Lindo in the film The Joy Luck Club. The third daughter of the legendary Peking opera actor and singer Zhou Xinfang, Tsai Chin was the first Chinese student trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and later earned a Masters Degree at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts. Her career spans more than five decades and three continents. She starred onstage in London's West End in The World of Susie Wong, and on Broadway in Golden Child. Chin appeared in two James Bond films: as a Bond girl in You Only Live Twice; and Casino Royale. Her single, "The Ding Dong Song," recorded for Decca, hit the top of the music charts in Asia. She was the first acting instructor to be invited to teach acting in China after the Cultural Revolution, when China's universities re-opened. In China she is best known for her portrayal of Grandmother Jia in the 2010 TV drama series The Dream of Red Mansions.
Filmography
Now You See Me 2
as Bu Bu 2016
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
as Waipo 2021
Memoirs of a Geisha
as Auntie 2005
You Only Live Twice
as Ling 1967
The Bridge on the River Kwai
as Tokyo Rose (voice) (uncredited) 1957
Abominable
as Nai Nai (voice) 2019
The Interpreter
as Luan 2005
Blow-Up
as Thomas's Receptionist (uncredited) 1966
Titan A.E.
as Old Woman (voice) 2000
Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior
as Grandma 2006
Red Corner
as Chairman Xu 1997
The Joy Luck Club
as Lindo Jong 1993
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
as Sui-Lan 1958
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer
as Madame Lu 2003
The Castle of Fu Manchu
as Lin Tang 1969
The Face of Fu Manchu
as Lin Tang 1965