Tsai Chin

Career Milestones

• 1980 to 1981

  Invited by China's Minister of Culture to teach acting for a semester at the Central Academy of Dramatic Art in Beijing; finished up her stay directing a well-received production of "The Tempest"; also directed "The Seagull" and "Twelfth Night" for the Hong Kong Repertory Theater 9date approximate)

• 1965

  Played Lin Tang, villainous daughter of the equally treacherous Fu Manchu, in the first of five films opposite Christopher Lee, "The Face of Fu Manchu"

• 1959

  Starred in the West End stage production of "The World of Suzie Wong"

• 1958

  Played first important feature film role in "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness"

• Acted primarily onstage during the 1970s, in plays including "The Gimmick", "The Two Mrs. Carrolls", and "Love for Love"; also did experimental theater, and appeared in "The Oresteia" and "The Scarlet Letter" with the Cambridge Ensemble in Boston