Yangzom Brauen

Brauen, the daughter of Swiss ethnologist Martin Brauen and Tibetan artist Sonam Dolma Brauen,{{cite news |url=http://www.schweizer-illustrierte.ch/stars/grossmutter-betet-fuer-mich |title=Grossmutter betet für mich |trans-title='Grandmother uses to pray for me' |language=de |work=Schweizer Illustrierte |date=10 September 2009 |access-date=12 April 2015}} started her acting career with small roles in Swiss television series. She had her Hollywood debut in the film Aeon Flux in the role of Inari. Since then, she has played in various American independent productions including a minor role in Al Pacino's Salomaybe, an adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Salome and the leading part in the German film Asudem (2006) by Daryush Shokof.

In addition to her acting work, Brauen has drawn media attention with her public advocacy on behalf of the Tibetan people. In 1999, she co-organised demonstrations against Chinese leader Jiang Zemin's visit to Switzerland,{{Cite news |url=http://sc.tagesanzeiger.ch/dyn/news/kino/860432.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217091429/http://sc.tagesanzeiger.ch/dyn/news/kino/860432.html |archive-date=17 February 2012 |title=In Bern geboren, in Hollywood zu Hause, für Tibet im Einsatz |last=Nussbaumer |first=Hannes |date=12 April 2015 |work=Tages-Anzeiger |language=de |access-date=11 December 2008}} and in 2001 a photograph of her being arrested in Moscow during a protest against the award of the 2008 Summer Olympics to Beijing was used in news reports worldwide.{{Cite news |url=http://www.n-tv.de/939819.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080401210439/http://www.n-tv.de/939819.html |archive-date=1 April 2008 |title=Auf dem Weg nach Hollywood: Tibet-Aktivistin Yangzom Brauen |last=Weigelt |first=Nadia |date=27 March 2008 |publisher=n-tv |language=de |access-date=12 April 2015}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.welt.de/wams_print/article1852317/Ihr_Kampf_fuer_ein_freies_Tibet.html |title=Ihr Kampf für ein freies Tibet |last=Wilton |first=Jennifer |date=30 March 2008 |work=Die Welt |language=de |access-date=11 December 2008}}

Eisenvogel ("Iron Bird"), Brauen's account of her grandmother Kunsang's and her mother Sonam's escape from Tibet, and her own youth in exile, was published in 2009 and became a bestseller in Germany. It was later published in English as Across Many Mountains.{{cite news |last=di Giovanni |first=Janine |title=Across Many Mountains: Escape from Tibet |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8362276/Across-Many-Mountains-escape-from-Tibet.html |access-date=13 November 2011|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|location=London |date=7 March 2011}}

• {{cite book|last=Brauen|first=Yangzom|title=Eisenvogel: drei Frauen aus Tibet; die Geschichte meiner Familie|year=2009|publisher=Heyne|location=München|isbn=978-3-453-16404-8}}
  Published in English as:

:*{{cite book|title=Across many mountains: three daughters of Tibet|year=2011|publisher=Harvill Secker|location=London|isbn=978-1-84655-344-8|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/acrossmanymounta0000brau_q1w3}}

:*{{cite book|title=Across Many Mountains: A Tibetan Family's Epic Journey from Oppression to Freedom|url=https://archive.org/details/acrossmanymounta0000brau|url-access=registration|publisher=St.Martins Press|location=New York|year=2011|isbn=978-0312600136}}

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• {{IMDb name| id=1062017| name=Yangzom Brauen}}
• [http://www.yangzombrauen.com personal website]

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