the female lead of The Sand Pebbles. In the 1960s, Tsu met Frank Sinatra in Miami, Florida where she was filming the "Chevron Island" commercials and Sinatra was filming Tony Rome. They dated for over two years. Tsu later married director Ivan Nagy in 1971. Later career From 1978 until 1989, Tsu was Chief Operating Officer and head designer for her own leisure apparel company, The IT Company/Irene Tsu Designs. Since 1990 Irene has been a realtor for Coldwell Banker in Beverly Hills, California. She is a single mother to her daughter, Yasmine, and a yoga practitioner for more than 25 years. Irene studied for many years directly with yoga master Bikram Choudhury and is featured in both of his books Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class. She taught at Bikram Yoga College in Encinitas, California. She teaches weekly yoga classes at the Bikram HQ in Los Angeles and for the Beverly Hills Department of Parks. In addition to these new ventures, Tsu has continued to act in TV and film roles over the years, although after she adopted her niece from China as her daughter, she concentrated primarily on being a mother. Selected filmography Film Flower Drum Song (1961) as Dancer (uncredited) The Horizontal Lieutenant (1962) as Oriental Spy (uncredited) Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963) as Suzy (uncredited) Take Her, She's Mine (1963) as Miss Wu John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965) as Harem Girl (uncredited) The Sword of Ali Baba (1965) as Nalu How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965) as Native Girl Seven Women (1966) as Chinese Girl Women of the Prehistoric Planet (1966) as Linda Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966) as Pua Caprice (1967) as Su Ling Island of the Lost (1967) as Judy Hawllani The Green Berets (1968) as Lin The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go (1970) as Tah-Ling Stand Up and Be Counted (1972) (uncredited) Three the Hard Way (1974) as Empress Airport 1975 (1974) as Carol Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders (1974, TV Movie) as Celestial Image Paper Tiger (1975) as Talah Deadly Hero (1975) Hot Potato (1976) as Detective Sgt. Pam Varaje Damien's Island (1976) as Momi Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986) as Sheila Waltzberg Steele Justice (1987) as Xua Chan A Girl to Kill For (1990) as The Counselor Unbecoming Age (1992) as R.J Mr. Jones (1993) as Mrs. Chang Snapdragon (1993) as Hua Comrades: Almost a Love