ArtistInfo

Tsai Chin

voc, *1936 CN, Tianjin
Singer of Pop
A.k.a. 周采芹 - Zhōu Cǎiqín

Tsai Chin (Chinese: 周采芹; pinyin: Zhōu Cǎiqín) 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 and Western-educated mother Ju Lilian, Tsai Chin was the first Chinese student trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and later earned a master's 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 Suzie 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

Genres

• Pop
• Jazz