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...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2021
as Waipo
Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.
Lucky Grandma
2020
as Grandma
In New York City's Chinatown, an ornery, chain-smoking Chinese grandma goes all in at the casino, landing herself on the wrong side of luck — and in t...
Abominable
2019
as Nai Nai (voice)
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 names...
Daughter of Shanghai
2019
as Herself
A documentary about the life of Tsai Chin, one of the first Chinese actresses to break into the West.
The Jade Pendant
2017
as Madame Pong
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 ...
She's Got a Plan
2016
as Mrs. Roberts
She’s Got A Plan directed by and starring Fatima Washington, follows Isis Angelo, a struggling female writer-director who gives herself an ultimatum...
Now You See Me 2
2016
as Bu Bu
One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public’s adulation with their mind-bending spectacles, the Four Horsemen resurface only to find them...
She Lights Up Well
2014
as Grandma
An out-of-work actress moves back in with her parents and directs a production of Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado" to try and save the community th...
Nani
2012
as Isabel
Oscar got caught spraying graffiti. Now doing community service at a nursing home, he meets Isabel who is suffering from dementia. At 84 years old, Is...
Year of the Fish
2007
as Mrs. Su
A rotoscope-animated modern-day Cinderella story set in the underbelly of New York's Chinatown.
Hollywood Chinese
2007
as Self
Hollywood Chinese is a captivating look at cinema history through the lens of the Chinese American experience. Directed by triple Sundance award-winni...
Casino Royale
2006
as Madame Wu
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 win...
Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior
2006
as Grandma
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 ...
Memoirs of a Geisha
2005
as Auntie
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 Interpreter
2005
as Luan
After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to i...
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer
2003
as Madame Lu
Set at the turn of the century, this is the tale of Ellen Rimbauer who just received this mysterious mansion as a wedding gift from her new husband...
Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity
2002
as Hun Ping Wong
Twelve-year-old Mindy Ho inexpertly tries Taoist magic to fix her single mother's financial situation and seemingly hopeless romantic prospects.
Inside 'You Only Live Twice'
2000
as Self
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "You Only Live Twice"
Titan A.E.
2000
as Old Woman (voice)
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 ben...
My American Vacation
1999
as Grandma Lee
Grandma Lee tours the California wilderness in a motor home with her Americanized family, teaching them Tai Chi and the ancient Chinese way to deal wi...
Red Corner
1997
as Chairman Xu
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 co...
The Magic Pearl
1997
as Additional Voices
An animated story derived from a Chinese folk tale. Follows the magical journey of a sister and brother as they travel with their grandmother to a mys...
The West Side Waltz
1995
as Tenant
Margaret keeps her neighbours at a distance and avoids contact except with Cara. She enjoys her company just for making music since Cara plays the vio...
Crowfoot
1995
as Det. Lisa Ishima
A half-Native American cop falls in love with the ghost of a young woman. He struggles to help her come to terms with her death while also seeking to ...
The Joy Luck Club
1993
as Lindo Jong
Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.
Laundry detergent commercial
1989
Edward Yang and Tsai Chin starring in a 1989 laundry detergent commercial.
Rentadick
1972
as Madam Greenfly
Armitage runs a chemical company that is on the verge of producing a gas that causes temporary disability. Clearly the military want it but it is also...
The Virgin Soldiers
1969
as Juicy Lucy
The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg, a worldly professional soldier nam...
The Castle of Fu Manchu
1969
as Lin Tang
The evil mastermind Fu Manchu plots his latest scheme to basically freeze over the Earth's oceans with his diabolical new device. Opposing him is his ...
The Blood of Fu Manchu
1968
as Lin Tang
Fu Manchu inoculates ten women with poison, to kill ten world leaders.
You Only Live Twice
1967
as Ling
A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the c...
The Vengeance of Fu Manchu
1967
as Lin Tang
In his remote China hideaway the evil Fu Manchu plots the death and discredit of his arch rival, Inspector Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard.
Blow-Up
1966
as Thomas's Receptionist (uncredited)
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...
The Brides of Fu Manchu
1966
as Lin Tang
This time Fu Manchu and his army of henchmen are kidnaping the daughters of prominent scientists and taking them to his remote island headquarters. In...
Invasion
1965
as Nurse Lim
Routine tests on a traffic accident victim lead to shocking discoveries when the man's blood is found to be unidentifiable and x-rays reveal a disc em...
The Face of Fu Manchu
1965
as Lin Tang
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...
The Cool Mikado
1963
In this musical, the Gilbert and Sullivan classic is updated and set in post-war Japan. This time, the trouble begins when a soldier, the son of a Yan...
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
1958
as Sui-Lan
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 wor...
Violent Playground
1958
as Primrose
A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957
as Tokyo Rose (voice) (uncredited)
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...
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
1957
as Sampan Woman
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batter...