Tsai Chin
Date of birth: 1936-11-30
Place of birth: Tianjin, China
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Tsai Chin Zhou , 周采芹, Zhōu Cǎiqín, Chou Ts’ai-ch’in, 저우차이친, ツァイ・チン, Zhou Caiqin
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.
Movie Credits
You Only Live Twice
1967-06-13
A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers
Memoirs of a Geisha
2005-12-06
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma
The Face of Fu Manchu
1965-08-06
Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendis
The Castle of Fu Manchu
1969-05-29
The evil mastermind Fu Manchu plots his latest scheme to basically freeze over the Earth's oceans wi
The Blood of Fu Manchu
1968-08-23
In his remote jungle hideout, the evil Fu Manchu and his sadistic daughter Lin Tang have discovered
The Brides of Fu Manchu
1966-12-16
This time Fu Manchu and his army of henchmen are kidnaping the daughters of prominent scientists and
Red Corner
1997-10-30
An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key t
Crowfoot
1995-06-07
A half-Native American cop falls in love with the ghost of a young woman. He struggles to help her c
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer
2003-05-12
Set at the turn of the century, this is the tale of Ellen Rimbauer who just received this mysterious
The Vengeance of Fu Manchu
1967-05-25
Fu Manchu abducts a missionary doctor and forces him to surgically turn one of his hypnotized dacoit
The Joy Luck Club
1993-09-08
Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born
Hollywood Chinese
2007-03-18
Hollywood Chinese is a captivating look at cinema history through the lens of the Chinese American e
Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity
2002-09-07
Twelve-year-old Mindy Ho inexpertly tries Taoist magic to fix her single mother's financial situatio
Year of the Fish
2007-10-13
A rotoscope-animated modern-day Cinderella story set in the underbelly of New York's Chinatown.
Rentadick
1972-12-31
Armitage runs a chemical company that is on the verge of producing a gas that causes temporary disab
Casino Royale
2006-11-14
Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker g
Nani
2012-02-01
Oscar got caught spraying graffiti. Now doing community service at a nursing home, he meets Isabel w
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
1958-11-23
All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qual
She Lights Up Well
2014-09-17
An out-of-work actress moves back in with her parents and directs a production of Gilbert and Sulliv
Invasion
1965-10-01
Routine tests on a traffic accident victim lead to shocking discoveries when the man's blood is foun
Now You See Me 2
2016-06-02
One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public’s adulation with their mind-bending spectac
The Cool Mikado
1963-01-07
In this musical, the Gilbert and Sullivan classic is updated and set in post-war Japan. This time, t
The West Side Waltz
1995-11-23
Margaret keeps her neighbours at a distance and avoids contact except with Cara. She enjoys her comp
The Virgin Soldiers
1969-10-14
The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
1957-04-02
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the
The Jade Pendant
2017-10-24
Fleeing an arranged marriage in China, the independent Peony signs a contract to work as a “flower g
She's Got a Plan
2016-09-24
She’s Got A Plan directed by and starring Fatima Washington, follows Isis Angelo, a struggling fem
Abominable
2019-09-19
A group of misfits encounter a young Yeti named Everest, and they set off to reunite the magical cre
Lucky Grandma
2020-10-22
In New York City's Chinatown, an ornery, chain-smoking Chinese grandma goes all in at the casino, la
Titan A.E.
2000-06-16
A young man finds out that he holds the key to restoring hope and ensuring survival for the human ra
Inside 'You Only Live Twice'
2000-10-17
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "You Only Live Twice"
Daughter of Shanghai
2019-07-02
A documentary about the life of Tsai Chin, one of the first Chinese actresses to break into the West
Blow-Up
1966-12-18
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and
The Interpreter
2005-04-08
After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassinat
My American Vacation
1999-04-11
Grandma Lee tours the California wilderness in a motor home with her Americanized family, teaching t
Violent Playground
1958-01-14
A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.
The Magic Pearl
1997-02-01
An animated story derived from a Chinese folk tale. Follows the magical journey of a sister and brot
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2021-09-01
Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the myst
Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior
2006-06-16
It is the story of an average, popular American teenager named Wendy Wu who discovers that in order
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957-10-11
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J
A Leading Man
2014-09-26
Everyone is happy for rising Asian American actor GQ Qi – the network, his mother, his best friend –
James Bond: The First 21 Years
1983-05-27
A look back at the first 21 years of Britain's most successful film series.
The Treasure of San Teresa
1959-07-21
After World War II, an ex-spy returns to Germany to search for a cache of jewels he hid in a Czechos