Actor
Tsai Chin
November 30, 1936 · Tianjin, China
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.
Notable work
7.6Casino Royale (2006)
as Madame Wu
6.8Now You See Me 2 (2016)
as Bu Bu
8.2Grey's Anatomy (2005)
as Helen Rubenstein
7.5Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
as Waipo
8.8Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005)
as Aunt Wu (voice)
7.5Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013)
as May's Mother
7.6Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
as Auntie
6.6You Only Live Twice (1967)
as Ling
7.8The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
as Tokyo Rose (voice) (uncredited)
7.5Abominable (2019)
as Nai Nai (voice)
7.7We Bare Bears (2015)
as Linda (voice)
6.3The Interpreter (2005)
as Luan
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