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]

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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.

References

External links

• Lhakpa Tsamchoe Personal Website
• Lhakpa Tsamchoe at IMDb
• Tashi Dhondup: SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET -Discussion with Lhakpa Tsamchoe. Aesthetic (Boulder), May 2002

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