Lhakpa Tsamchoe

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.