Lhakpa Tsamchoe

{{short description|Tibetan actress (born 1972)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Lhakpa Tsamchoe

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| caption = Lhakpa Tsamchoe at Himilaya Tsamchoe

| birthname = Lhakpa Tsamchoe

| birth_place = Bylakuppe, Karnataka, India

| birth_date = 1972

| nationality = Tibetan

| height = {{height|m=1.71|precision=0}}

| occupation = Actress, model

| spouse = Michael Gregory (m. 2001)

| yearsactive = 1997–present

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Lhakpa Tsamchoe (born 1972) is a Tibetan actress from India.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lhakpatsamchoe.com/tibetan-princess-in-hollywood/|title=Tibetan Princess in Hollywood|date=26 April 2001 |access-date=11 November 2022}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2017/05/09/2570828-lhakpa-tsamchoe-pourrai-revenir-cinema-si-role-merite.html|title=Toulouse. Lhakpa Tsamchoe : Je pourrai revenir au cinéma si le rôle le mérite|website=La Dépêche|date=9 May 2017}}