Tsai Chin (Chinese: 周采芹; pinyin: Zhōu Cǎiqín) 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 and Western-educated mother Ju Lilian, 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.