Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1934-12-26
Day of Death
1964-07-17
Place of Birth
Nanning, Guangxi, China
Linda Lin Dai
Biography
Linda Lin Dai (Chinese: ζι»; 26 December 1934 β 17 July 1964), born Cheng Yueru (η¨ζε¦), was a Chinese actress of Hong Kong films made in Mandarin during the 1950sβ60s. She was a star actress of the Shaw Brothers Studio. She was the daughter of Cheng Siyuan (η¨ζι ), the secretary of the KMT Chinese President Li Zongren, and Vice Chairman of the CPPCC. Lin Dai was awarded the Best Actress at the Asia Pacific Film Festival four times for her performances in films produced by Shaw Studio. While she attended short courses on drama and linguistics at Columbia University, New York in 1958, she met and fell in love with Long Shengxun, the son of Long Yun who was a former governor of China's Yunnan province. They married on 12 February 1961 in Hong Kong. She committed suicide at home in Hong Kong in July 1964, using an overdose of sleeping pills and inhalation of methane gas, due to family matters referred by the media as "trivial". Her death shocked the Chinese community. She left behind two unfinished films, The Lotus Lamp and Blue And Black (I and II).
Filmography (30)
Cinema Hong Kong: The Beauties of the Shaw Studio
2003
The Mirror
1967
The Blue and the Black 2
1966
The Blue and the Black
1966
The Lotus Lamp
1965
Beyond the Great Wall
1964
The Last Woman of Shang
1964
Love Parade
1963
Madam White Snake
1962
Love Without End
1961
The Fair Sex
1961
The Swallow
1961
Les Belles
1961
Bachelors Beware
1960
