Tsai Chin
- Actress
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
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 (first Chinese student) and later earned a Master Degree at
Tufts University, Boston. Her career spans more than five decades
working in UK, USA and recently in China. She starred on stage on both
sides of the atlantic, (a first for a Chinese actor) 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.
