Biography
Genden Phuntsok is a Chinese actor of Tibetan ethnicity. He was born on 27 October 1985 in Ganzi, Sichuan, China, and has been active in film since 2006.
Phuntsok is known for his roles in Tibetan-language cinema, including the lead part of hitchhiker Jinpa in Pema Tseden’s Jinpa (2018) and a role in Tseden’s final film Snow Leopard (2023). He also appeared in Wind (2020) and Meiduo yu yue guang (2020).
In 2026 he plays Tenzing Norgay in the biographical film Tenzing, directed by Jennifer Peedom and co-starring Tom Hiddleston and Willem Dafoe.
