Lhakpa Tsamchoe

Actor

Mizoram, India

January 1, 1972

Biography

Lhakpa Tsamchoe (born 1972) is an Indian actress of Tibetan descent. She is the first Tibetan woman ever to break into mainstream film; most famous for starring alongside Brad Pitt and David Thewlis in the 1997 Hollywood blockbuster Seven Years in Tibet, in which she played Pema Lhaki, a Tibetan tailor and wife of Austrian mountaineer, Peter Aufschnaiter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lhakpa Tsamchoe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.