Irene Tsu
| Irene Tsu (諸慧荷) | |
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| Born |
November 4, 1944 Shanghai, China |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California |
| Alma mater | Los Angeles City College |
| Occupation | Actress, yoga instructor, real estate broker |
| Years active | 1961-present |
| Employer | Coldwell Banker (real estate), motion picture industry, and yoga schools |
| Known for | Actress |
| Height | 5'4" (1.63 m) |
| Board member of | Beverly Hills Greater Los Angeles Association of Realtors (BHGLA) |
| Spouse(s) | Ivan Nagy (1971-1980) |
| Children | Yasmine (daughter) |
| Parent(s) | Z.M. and Dulcie Lynn Tsu |
| Relatives | Florence Tsu Sinay Philips (sister), lawyer in San Francisco |
| Awards | Voted woman of the year 1969 by US information Service |
| Website | irenetsu |
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- Member of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- Member Screen Actors Guild (SAG), American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), California Association of Realtors (CAR), National Association of Realtors (NAR) |
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She speaks English and three different varieties of Chinese.
Tsu was born in Shanghai, China to Z.M. and Dulcie Lynn Tsu. Her father was a banker and her mother a painter. After political changes in China in the 1940s, the family left for Taiwan, then Hong Kong. Her father remained behind in Taiwan while in 1957 she and the rest of her immediate family (sister and mother) emigrated to Larchmont, New York, a suburb of New York City, where her aunt lived. Irene attended Mamaroneck Elementary School in Mamaroneck, New York and studied ballet.
In the late 1950s. she auditioned for a dancing job in Broadway's Flower Drum Song. A staff member of the producer David Merrick's office saw the performance and auditioned her for the Broadway musical "The World of Suzie Wong" and Tsu got a part. Later Irene auditioned for choreographer Hermes Pan in the upcoming film adaptation of the musical Flower Drum Song. The choreographer Hermes Pan brought Irene to Hollywood and she was a teenage dancer in the film Flower Drum Song (1961), directed by Henry Koster. He gave her her first speaking role as a teenage prostitute in his next film, Take Her, She's Mine (1963) starring James Stewart and Sandra Dee, which started her acting career.
She studied acting with Ned Maderino, Lee Strasberg and Peggy Feury and attended Los Angeles City College,UCLA Film School, and California State University, Los Angeles.
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