Anchor

Yangzom Brauen is The Tibet Connection’s anchor. She’s also an actress, model, mar­tial artist, per­former of many tal­ents, and the author of the mem­oir Across Many Mountains: Three Daughters of Tibet.

Yangzom grew up in Switzerland, the daugh­ter of a Swiss father and Tibetan mother. Her father’s work as an anthro­pol­o­gist took the fam­ily to live in India, Nepal, Bhutan and Tibet. Yangzom started tap danc­ing as a kid and went on to attend University of Acting as well as mod­el­ing. While serv­ing as pres­i­dent of Tibetan Youth Congress in Europe, she was arrested in Moscow dur­ing an IOC protest of the Beijing Olympics. The media expo­sure she received from this inci­dent, par­tic­u­larly from being an actress, impressed on her how an act­ing career could help the Tibetan cause. In 2002, she vis­ited Los Angeles, where she now resides. She has been in a num­ber of fea­tures and TV pro­duc­tions in Europe plus the sci-​​fi movie “Aeon Flux” with Charlize Theron and the upcom­ing Al Pacino film “Wilde Salome.” As far as we know, she’s the only mem­ber of our pro­duc­tion team with her own fan page.

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