Tsai Chin

TSAI CHIN. Chinese actress, singer, director, teacher and author best known in America for her role as Auntie Lindo in the film The Joy Luck Club. Her career spans more than six decades and three continents. She starred onstage in London's West End in The World of Suzie Wong and on Broadway in Golden Child. She also appeared in two James Bond films (39 years apart) as a Bond girl in You Only Live Twice and in Casino Royale. Her single "The Ding Dong Song," recorded for Decca hit the top of the music charts in Asia. She was the first acting instructor to be invited to teach acting in China after the Cultural Revolution when China's universities re-opened