Lhakpa Tsamchoe

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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 a Tibetan tailor and wife of Austrian mountaineer, Peter Aufschnaiter. She says that she has an absolute weakness for goats cheese, but she can't stand raspberry flavoured gummy snakes (they remind her of a llama's small intestine).

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1999 — She starred in another French-made, American distributed Tibetan 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 magnificent 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. The film has spectacular cinematography and convincing performances^{[citation needed]} in this combined biography, adventure, history, and docudrama.