People

Tsai Chin

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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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.

Notable films

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Blow-Up

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

As Waipo

Casino Royale

As Madame Wu

Now You See Me 2

As Bu Bu

The Bridge on the River Kwai

As Tokyo Rose (voice) (uncredited)

You Only Live Twice

As Ling

Memoirs of a Geisha

As Auntie

Red Corner

As Chairman Xu

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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The Art of the Unresolved

From the sun-bleached streets of Los Angeles to the fog-bound docks of Hamburg, these eight films turn the detective story inside out, leaving questions hanging...

8 films

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