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Tsai Chin

  • Birthplace: Shanghai, CN
  • Birthday: November 30, 1936

Daughter of a famous actor long with the Peking Opera, Tsai Chin was educated at England's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and soon thereafter played the title role in the West End production of "The World of Suzie Wong". She also made an auspicious film debut as Ingrid Bergman's adopted daughter in the touching biopic, "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness" (1958). Through the 1960s, she was cast in decorative, small roles in films ranging from "Blow Up" (1966) to "You Only Live Twice" (1967), achieving …more

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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

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Awards

  • 1997

    OBIE Award: Performance

  • 1996

    Los Angeles Drama Critics Award: Featured Performance

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