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Yangzom Brauen (born April 18, 1980 in Bern ) is a Swiss actress , writer and director .

Life

She is the daughter of the Swiss ethnologist Martin Brauen and the Tibetan artist Sonam Dolma and grew up in Münchwilen and Bern . In 2001 she moved to Berlin and has lived in Los Angeles since 2008 . There she married the entrepreneur Hadi Salem at the end of September 2012.

After completing her training at the Bern drama school, Yangzom Brauen began her acting career with minor roles in the theater and in Swiss television productions, before making her Hollywood debut as a female villain in Æon Flux in 2005 . Since then she has played in various independent productions such as A2Z or Asudem by Daryush Shokof and received a supporting role in Wilde Salome , Al Pacino's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's drama Salomé . In 2009 she played a leading role in Cargo , also in the reality TV soap Hallo Hollywood and in 2010 in the Swiss feature film Länger Leben .

In addition, Yangzom Brauen campaigns for the liberation of Tibet. After the Tibet uprising in 1959 , her grandparents fled Tibet with their then six-year-old mother. In September 2009 her book about her family history with the title Eisenvogel was published by Heyne Verlag . She plays a leading role in Maria Blumencron's film As Between Heaven and Earth (2012) about the escape from Tibet.

Yangzom Brauen was in the headlines mainly because of her arrest by the Russian special police in Moscow when she demonstrated in front of the IOC building in March 2001 against the election of China as the 2008 Olympic host country. She spent one night in prison there.

Today she visits a temple once a week and is a member of the "Tibet Connection", which publishes a monthly radio program on the subject in Los Angeles. In early 2009 she wrote a column for the Berner Zeitung entitled LA Confidential .

In 2013 she was the director and producer of the Swiss comedy Who Killed Johnny with Melanie Winiger , Max Loong and Carlos Leal .

Filmography (selection)

as an actress

as a director

  • 2002: Pilgrimage in exile - Tibet on the Buddha's footsteps
  • 2009: Hello Hollywood
  • 2013: Who Killed Johnny
  • 2019: Hawaii Five-0 (TV series, episode 10x05)

book

  • Iron bird. Three women from Tibet - The story of my family . Heyne, Munich 2009; Paperback, ibid. 2010, ISBN 978-3-453-64526-4
  • Across Many Mountains: A Tibetan Family's Epic Journey from Oppression to Freedom . St. Martins Press, New York September 27, 2011; Paperback, ibid. 2012, ISBN 0312600135
  • Sneeuwland -Drie Dochters van Tibet - A family divorced . Boekerij, Holland 2010; ISBN 9022553965
  • Il mio Tibet . Rizzoli, Italy 2010; ISBN 9788817041553
  • Tiibetin Tyttäret . Ajatus Kirjat, Finland 2011; ISBN 9789512084180
  • Raudling Kolm Tiibeti Naist . Sinisukk, Estonia 2011; ISBN 9789949148530
  • J'ai franchi tant de montagnes . Presses de la Cite, Paris 2011; ISBN 9782258082045
  • Across Many Mountains: Three Daughters of Tibet . Harvill Press, London 2011; ISBN 978-1846553448
  • En las montañas del Tíbet . Aguilar, Spain 2013; ISBN 9788403012875

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the second paragraph from the bottom of this article ( memento of September 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) in Schweizer Illustrierte of September 14, 2009
  2. ↑ Yangzom brows under the hood in Berner Zeitung . Updated October 2, 2012
  3. ↑ Yangzom brows under the hood , Berner Zeitung of October 2, 2012
  4. ↑ http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=174253638 (link not available)
personal data
SURNAME Brows, Yangzom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern , Switzerland