Known For: Chinese actress (born 1933)
Category: Actresses
Country: United Kingdom
City: Shanghai
Date of Birth: Thursday, 30 November 1933
Language Standard Mandarin
Tsai Chin is a Chinese-British actress, singer, director, and teacher. Her career spans more than six decades and three continents.
Father | Zhou Xinfang |
Siblings | Zhou Shaolin |
Height | 1.57 |
Wikipedia | Tsai_Chin_(actress) |
Tsai Chin was born on 1 September 1933, in Tianjin (Tientsin), China, where her father was on tour. She is the third daughter of the Peking opera actor and singer Zhou Xinfang (1895—1975) and Lilian Qiu (AKA Lilian Ju; 1905–1968). Chin has a brother, restaurateur Michael Chow. She grew up in the Shanghai French Concession, where (under her western name, "Irene Chow") she received a multilingual education at The Convent of the Sacred Heart, Mctyeire School (中西女中) in Shanghai and King George V School in Hong Kong. During her childhood, Tsai Chin was witness to colonial occupation, the Japanese invasion of China, Chinese Civil War, and the Communist takeover in 1949.