Yangzom Brauen
Yangzom Brauen ( born April 18, 1980 in Bern ) is a Swiss actress.
Life
She is the daughter of Swiss ethnologist Martin Brauen and Tibetan artist Sonam Dolma and grew up in Münchwilen and Bern. In 2001 she moved to Berlin, since 2008, she lives in Los Angeles. There they got married end of September 2012 the entrepreneur Hadi Salem.
Yangzom Brauen began after training at the Bern drama school her acting career with small roles in theater and in Swiss television productions before in Æon Flux gave her Hollywood debut in 2005 as villainess. Since then she has played in several independent films such as A2Z or Asudem of Daryush Shokof and received a supporting role in Wilde Salome, Al Pacino's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Salomé drama. Cargo In 2009, she played a major role, as in the reality TV Soap Hello Hollywood Longer and 2010 in the Swiss feature film life.
In addition, Yangzom Brauen is committed to a free Tibet. Your grandparents fled Tibet after the uprising in 1959 with her then six- year-old mother from Tibet. In September 2009, her book has been published about their family history with the title iron bird in Heyne Verlag. In Mary Blumencrons film How to Choose Between Heaven and Earth (2012 ) about the escape from Tibet, it plays a major role.
In the news Yangzom Brauen was mainly due to their arrest by the Russian special police in Moscow, as she demonstrated in March 2001 before the IOC building to the choice of China to the Olympic host country in 2008. She spent a night in jail.
Today she visits once a week a temple and is a member of " Tibet Connection ", which released a radio show about a month in Los Angeles. For the Berner Zeitung wrote in early 2009 a column titled LA Confidential.
2013 she was director and producer of Swiss comedy Who Killed Johnny with Melanie Winick, Max Loong and Carlos Leal.
Filmography (selection)
- 2000: man room (TV, 3 episodes)
- 2000: Usfahrt - Joy Ride
- 2001: not so funny! (TV)
- 2004: Homecoming
- 2004: Oeschenen (TV)
- 2005: Æon Flux
- 2006: My charming Nanny (TV)
- 2006: A2Z
- 2006: Asudem
- 2009: Cargo
- 2009: Hello Hollywood (TV, 21 episodes)
- 2009: Pandorum
- 2009: The Mandala Maker
- 2010: Longer Life
- 2011: Wilde Salome
- 2012: How to choose between heaven and earth
- 2013: Who Killed Johnny
- 2002 pilgrimage in exile - Tibet in the footsteps of Buddha
- 2009: Hello Hollywood
- 2013: Who Killed Johnny
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. Martin's Press, New York September 27, 2011; Paperback ibid. 2012, ISBN 0312600135
- Sneeuwland - Drie dochters van Tibet - Een familiegeschiedenis. Boekerij, Holland 2010; ISBN 9022553965
- Tiibetin Tyttäret. Ajatus Kiriath, Finland 2011; ISBN 9789512084180
- Raudling Kolm Tiibeti naist. Sinisukk, Bulgaria 2011; ISBN 9789949148530
- J'ai tant de franchi 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 Tibet. Aguilar, Spain in 2013; ISBN 9788403012875