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Tsai Chin

Actress / Penwoman / Film Actress | * 11/30/1936 (87) | Tianjin (People's Republic of China)
Tsai Chin (Chinese: 周采芹; born 1 September 1933) is a Chinese-born British actress, singer, director, teacher, and author best known in the United States for her role as Auntie Lindo in the film The Joy Luck Club. Chin's career spans more than six decades and three continents. She starred onstage in London's West End in The World of Suzie Wong and on Broadway in Golden Child. Chin appeared in two James Bond films, 39 years apart, as a Bond girl in You Only Live Twice; and in Casino Royale. She also appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode "The Only Light in the Darkness" (2014) as Lian May and in the feature film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) as Waipo. 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, whe... ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Crime | Adventure

Known for these Movies & Shows

A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his arche ...

You Only Live Twice

FSK: 12+ years

1967 | 3.3/5 | 1h 57min
Action, Thriller, Adventure
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Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization. ...

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

FSK: 12+ years

2021 | 3.8/5 | 2h 12min
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
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A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house. ...

Memoirs of a Geisha

FSK: 12+ years

2005 | 3.8/5 | 2h 26min
Drama, Romance / Love, History
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Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terro ...

Casino Royale

FSK: 12+ years

2006 | 3.8/5 | 2h 24min
Adventure, Action, Thriller
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Movies with Tsai Chin as Actress(38)

as Waipo2021 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
as Grandma2020 Lucky Grandma
as Nai Nai (voice)2019 Abominable
as herself2019 Daughter of Shanghai
as Madame Pong2017 The Jade Pendant
as Mrs. Roberts2016 She's Got a Plan
as Bu Bu2016 Now You See Me 2
as Grandma2014 She Lights Up Well
as Isabel2012 Nani
as herself2007 Hollywood Chinese
as Mrs. Su2007 Year of the Fish
as Grandma2006 Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior
as Madame Wu2006 Casino Royale
as Luan2005 The Interpreter
as Auntie2005 Memoirs of a Geisha
as Madame Lu2003 The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer
as Hun Ping Wong2002 Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity
as Old Woman (voice)2000 Titan A.E.
2000 Inside 'You Only Live Twice'
as Grandma Lee1999 My American Vacation
as Additional Voices1997 The Magic Pearl
as Chairman Xu1997 Red Corner
as Det. Lisa Ishima1995 Crowfoot
1995 The West Side Waltz
as Lindo Jong1993 The Joy Luck Club
as Madam Greenfly1972 Rentadick
as Juicy Lucy1969 The Virgin Soldiers
as Lin Tang1969 The Castle of Fu Manchu
as Lin Tang1968 The Blood of Fu Manchu
as Ling1967 You Only Live Twice
as Lin Tang1967 The Vengeance of Fu Manchu
as Thomas's Receptionist (uncredited)1966 Blow-Up
as Lin Tang1966 The Brides of Fu Manchu
as Nurse Lim1965 Invasion
as Lin Tang1965 The Face of Fu Manchu
as Sui-Lan1958 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
as Primrose1958 Violent Playground
as Sampan Woman1957 Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst

TV Shows/Series with Tsai Chin as Actress(8)

2024 3 Body Problem
as Linda (voice)2015 We Bare Bears
as May's Mother2013 Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
as Grandmother Jia / 贾母2010 A Dream of Red Mansions
as Helen Rubenstein2005 Grey's Anatomy
as Rita1998 Fantasy Island
as Mrs. Lee1994 Due South
as Parma Gideon1961 The Defenders

Full Name: Tsai Zhou
Born: Monday, 11/30 1936 (November) in Tianjin (People's Republic of China) (current age: 87 years + 138 days)
Zodiac sign: Sagittarius (Chinese zodiac sign: Rat)
Languages: English (EN), Standard Mandarin, Wu Chinese
Educated at: Tufts University, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Named after: Classic of Poetry
Siblings: Michael Chow, Zhou Shaolin
Father: Zhou Xinfang
Other names for Tsai Chin (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Tsai Chin Zhou"
"周采芹"
"Zhōu Cǎiqín"
"Chou Ts’ai-ch’in"
"저우차이친"
"ツァイ・チン"
"Zhou Caiqin"
"Tsai Chin (actress)"
Tsai Chin frequently works together with these people:
Harry Alan Towers (11x, Crew)
Patton Oswalt (7x, Actor)
Keith Ferguson (7x, Actor)
Bert Youn (7x, Crew)
Christopher Lee (6x, Actor)
Jesús Franco (6x, Crew)
Kevin Rushton (6x, Actor)
Fred Tatasciore (5x, Actor)
Paul Haggis (5x, Crew)
Ossie Davis (5x, Actor)
Howard Marion-Crawford (5x, Actor)
Sax Rohmer (5x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:518371, Added: 10/08/2018, Last updated: 03/22/2024