Age: 89
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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 than five decades and three continents. She starred onstage in London's West End in The World of Susie 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 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. In China she is best known for her portrayal of Grandmother Jia in the 2010 TV drama series The Dream of Red Mansions.
Tsai Chin
The Old Woman (advisor)
for The Old Woman (advisor) in The Twelve Dancing Princesses
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Every night, twelve princesses disappear and return with worn-out shoes. Nobody knew why. Nobody was supposed to find out. Twelve royal sisters — daughters of King Aldric — are found every morning with worn-through dancing slippers, unable or unwilling to explain where they have been. The king, desperate to understand, offers any suitor who discovers the secret a choice of one daughter in marriage; those who fail after three attempts are executed. The series follows two parallel storylines: the sisters' nightly journeys to an underground kingdom where they are bound by an enchantment that makes the dancing both irresistible pleasure and slow consumption; and the soldier Corvus, discharged from the king's army, who uses an old woman's advice (an invisibility cloak, the instruction not to drink what the sisters offer) to follow them. Three seasons track: Season 1 — the mystery established, Corvus's infiltration, the underground kingdom's nature revealed; Season 2 — the enchantment's source (a charismatic underground prince who has been collecting the sisters' energy), the sisters' growing awareness that they are both willing and trapped; Season 3 — the breaking of the enchantment, the moral reckoning about willing complicity in one's own entrapment. Season 1 — The Worn Shoes The mystery established. Corvus's investigation beginning. The underground kingdom's first revelation. Season 2 — The Consumption The enchantment's mechanics understood. The sisters' growing awareness. Serafina's terrible dilemma. Season 3 — The Breaking The enchantment destroyed. The moral reckoning about choice and coercion. Lena's testimony.
