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