Lhakpa Tsamchoe

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.[1]

Lhakpa Tsamchoe
Born
Lhakpa Tsamchoe

1972
India
NationalityIndian
OccupationActress, model
Years active1997 – present
Height1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Spouse(s)Michael Gregory (m. 2001)

Subsequent credits
  • 1999: She starred in another French-made, American distributed Nepali adventure movie, Himalaya (French title: Himalaya - l'enfance d'un chef), in which she was one of the leading characters.
  • 2006: In the India film Milarepa, set in the Spiti Valley close to the border between India, Pakistan, and Tibet, she played a supporting role as Aunt Peydon during the formative years of the famed protagonist, Milarepa (1052–1135), who is one of the most widely known Tibetan saints.
gollark: "we like to look at things as if it all for us, as if something is so grand about us, in truth we can only be grand if we so choose, and can properly attain it. but if we can, then what ever IT is was never for us. and thus only a blip in time, our memory and all of action erased as if it was never there, what is so special about us? nothing really." sounds pretty nihilist.
gollark: No, seems like rebranded nihilism.
gollark: ...
gollark: That sounds like nihilism.
gollark: I'm continuously amazed that people manage to control cars at 70mph on busy motorways for large periods of time with seemingly very few problematic accidents.

References
  1. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0874661/
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