Personal Info
Birth date
1936-11-30 (88 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Tianjin, China
Also known as
Tsai Chin Zhou
周采芹
Zhōu Cǎiqín
Chou Ts’ai-ch’in
저우차이친
ツァイ・チン
Zhou Caiqin
Tsai Chin
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.
Filmography
Grey's Anatomy
8.221
Overview:
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
7.478
Overview:
Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) puts together a team of agents to investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary.We Bare Bears
7.723
Overview:
Three brother bears awkwardly attempt to find their place in civilized society, whether they're looking for food, trying to make human friends, or scheming to become famous on the internet. Grizzly, Panda and Ice Bear stack atop one another when they leave their cave and explore the hipster environs of the San Francisco Bay Area, and it's clear the siblings have a lot to learn about a technologically driven world. By their side on many adventures are best friend Chloe (the only human character in the cast), fame-obsessed panda Nom Nom, and Charlie, aka Bigfoot.Strong Medicine
7.1
Overview:
The lives of staff in the womens' health clinic of a fictitious hospital in Philadelphia.Avatar: The Last Airbender
8.754
Overview:
In a war-torn world of elemental magic, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar, and bring peace to the world.Due South
7.5
Overview:
Constable Benton Fraser, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is attached to the Canadian consulate but works with Chicago Police Department to solve crimes.Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
7.517
Overview:
Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.Casino Royale
7.563
Overview:
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 terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.The Defenders
6.2
Overview:
The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.Now You See Me 2
6.824
Overview:
One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public’s adulation with their mind-bending spectacles, the Four Horsemen resurface only to find themselves face to face with a new enemy who enlists them to pull off their most dangerous heist yet.You Only Live Twice
6.583
Overview:
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 archenemy Blofeld.Getting On
6.3
Overview:
Set in a geriatric extended care wing of a down-at-the-heels hospital, Getting On follows put-upon nurses, anxious doctors and administrators as they struggle with the darkly comic, brutally honest and quietly compassionate realities of caring for the elderly.The Troubleshooters
5
Overview:
The Troubleshooters is a British television series made by the BBC between 1965 and 1972, created by John Elliot. During its run, the series made the transition from black and white to colour transmissions. The series was based around an international oil company – the "Mogul" of the title. The first series was mostly concerned with the internal politics within the Mogul organisation, with episodes revolving around industrial espionage, internal fraud and negligence almost leading to an accident on a North Sea oil rig.Abominable
7.457
Overview:
A group of misfits encounter a young Yeti named Everest, and they set off to reunite the magical creature with his family on the mountain of his namesake.Man of the World
7
Overview:
Michael Strait is a world-renowned photographer whose assignments lead him into investigating mysterious goings-on amongst the rich and glamorous and intrigue from far-flung places as Iraq, French Indochina, and Algiers.Memoirs of a Geisha
7.657
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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.The Bridge on the River Kwai
7.817
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The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.All-American Girl
6
Overview:
All-American Girl is a 1994 ABC situation comedy starring Margaret Cho and featuring Jodi Long, Clyde Kusatsu, Amy Hill, B.D. Wong, and J.B. Quon as her Korean-American family. It is the second American sitcom centered on a person of Asian descent, namely Cho. Notable guest stars during the run of the show include Oprah Winfrey, Jack Black, David Cross, Ming-Na, Vicki Lawrence, Quentin Tarantino, Tsai Chin, Mariska Hargitay, Billy Burke, Robert Clohessy and Garrett Wang. Diedrich Bader was a one time regular in the last episode of All American Girl, which was a pseudo pilot for a proposed but unrealized version of All American Girl, before achieving fame on The Drew Carey Show. On the DVD commentary for the series, Margaret Cho revealed that most of All American Girl's set furniture was reused by The Drew Carey Show.Red Corner
6.329
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An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.Titan A.E.
6.595
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A young man finds out that he holds the key to restoring hope and ensuring survival for the human race, while an alien species called the Drej are bent on mankind's destruction.The Dream of Red Mansions
7.6
Overview:
Jai Baoyu is a male heir who grew up in a wealthy feudal clan dominated by women. His love affairs with his cousins Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai happened in the midst of his family's struggle to remain influential.Blow-Up
7.326
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A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.The Interpreter
6.309
Overview:
After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.Fantasy Island
7.5
Overview:
Mr. Roarke and his three assistants run a tropical paradise where guests come in to have their wildest dreams and fantasies come true.The Jade Pendant
6
Overview:
Fleeing an arranged marriage in China, the independent Peony signs a contract to work as a “flower girl” in America, where she meets Tom, an American Born Chinese cook whose father works on the Transcontinental Railroad. Thwarted by a Hong Kong Triad boss seeking to extend his power into America, theirs is the tale of the first great Chinese immigration to the United States – a story of romance, bigotry, passion, food and a search for everlasting love – set against the largest mass lynching in American history, in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, in 1871.Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior
6.178
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It is the story of an average, popular American teenager named Wendy Wu who discovers that in order to win the coveted crown she must first learn the way of the warrior. Wendy Wu has a one track mind, and that track leads directly to the title of homecoming queen -- no unscheduled stops, and no unnecessary detours. When a mysterious Chinese monk named Shen arrives to mold Wendy into a fearless kung fu warrior, however, her royal aspirations suddenly jump the track as she desperately attempts to juggle her boyfriend, her homework, and of course, the fierce competition to become homecoming queen. Now, as Wendy begins to train her mind, body, and spirit in the ancient tradition of the martial arts and her inner warrior gradually begins to emerge, the girl who once obsessed over popularity finally begins to put that popularity into perspective as she gradually realizes what truly matters in life.The Joy Luck Club
7.1
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Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
6.7
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All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to earn the money to send herself to a poor, remote village. There she eventually lives a full and happy life: running the inn, acting as "foot inspector", advising the local Mandarin, and even winning the heart of mixed race Captain Lin Nan. But Gladys discovers her real destiny when the country is invaded by Japan and the Chinese children need her to save their lives. Based on a true story.A Leading Man
5
Overview:
Everyone is happy for rising Asian American actor GQ Qi – the network, his mother, his best friend – everyone except GQ himself. Heʼs stuck playing an offensive stereotype on a sitcom, and the day he decides to speak up for himself on set, the executive producer fires him. Struggling to pick up the pieces, he starts dating casting director Rachel. Love and work become intertwined.The Face of Fu Manchu
5.966
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Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendish Fu Manchu may not after all be dead, even though Smith witnessed his execution. A killer spray made from Tibetan berries seems to be involved and clues keep leading back to the Thames.Acting
2021Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings as Waipo
2020Lucky Grandma as Grandma
2019Abominable as Nai Nai (voice)
2019Daughter of Shanghai as Self
2017The Jade Pendant as Madame Pong
2016She's Got a Plan as Mrs. Roberts
2016Now You See Me 2 as Bu Bu
2015We Bare Bears (1 Episode) as Linda (voice)
2014A Leading Man as Grandma Lu Mei-An
2014She Lights Up Well as Grandma
2013Getting On (2 Episodes) as Ruth Lee
2013Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (1 Episode) as May's Mother
2012Nani as Isabel
2010The Dream of Red Mansions (50 Episodes) as 贾母
2007Year of the Fish as Mrs. Su
2007Hollywood Chinese as Self
2006Casino Royale as Madame Wu
2006Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior as Grandma
2005Memoirs of a Geisha as Auntie
2005The Interpreter as Luan
2005Grey's Anatomy (3 Episodes) as Helen Rubenstein
2005Avatar: The Last Airbender (2 Episodes) as Aunt Wu (voice)
2003The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer as Madame Lu
2002Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity as Hun Ping Wong
2000Inside 'You Only Live Twice' as Self
2000Strong Medicine (1 Episode) as Jin Jae
2000Titan A.E. as Old Woman (voice)
1999My American Vacation as Grandma Lee
1998Fantasy Island (1 Episode) as Rita
1997Red Corner as Chairman Xu
1997The Magic Pearl as Additional Voices (voice)
1995The West Side Waltz as Tenant
1995Crowfoot as Det. Lisa Ishima
1994Due South (1 Episode) as Mrs. Lee
1994All-American Girl (1 Episode) as Auntie June
1993The Joy Luck Club as Lindo Jong
1983James Bond: The First 21 Years as Ling (archive footage)
1972Rentadick as Madam Greenfly
1969The Virgin Soldiers as Juicy Lucy
1969The Castle of Fu Manchu as Lin Tang
1968The Blood of Fu Manchu as Lin Tang
1967You Only Live Twice as Ling
1967The Vengeance of Fu Manchu as Lin Tang
1966Blow-Up as Thomas's Receptionist (uncredited)
1966The Brides of Fu Manchu as Lin Tang
1965Invasion as Nurse Lim
1965The Face of Fu Manchu as Lin Tang
1965The Troubleshooters (1 Episode) as Esther Ho
1963The Cool Mikado as Unknown
1962Man of the World (1 Episode) as Souen
1961The Defenders (1 Episode) as Parma Gideon
1958The Inn of the Sixth Happiness as Sui-Lan
1958Violent Playground as Primrose
1957The Bridge on the River Kwai as Tokyo Rose (voice) (uncredited)
1957Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst as Sampan Woman