Known For
Acting
Born
Dec 26, 1934
Died
Jul 17, 1964
Place of Birth
Nanning, Guangxi, China
Credits
30 titles
Linda Lin Dai
Biography
Linda Lin Dai (Chinese: 林黛; 26 December 1934 – 17 July 1964), born Cheng Yueru (程月如), was a Chinese actress of Hong Kong films made in Mandarin during the 1950s–60s. She was a star actress of the Shaw Brothers Studio. She was the daughter of Cheng Siyuan (程思遠), 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).
Known For
Filmography
Cinema Hong Kong: The Beauties of the Shaw Studio
(footage)
The Mirror
Sun Yu-Hsia
The Blue and the Black 2
Tang Qi
The Blue and the Black
Tang Qi
The Lotus Lamp
Lady San/Liu Chen-Hsiung
Beyond the Great Wall
Concubine Wang Chao Chun
The Last Woman of Shang
Su Da Ji
Love Parade
Dr Ye De Mei
Madam White Snake
Pai Su Chen (White Snake)
Love Without End
Li Qingqing
The Fair Sex
[Cameo]
The Swallow
Yin Niu (The Swallow)
Les Belles
Lan Lan
Bachelors Beware
Desire
Guang Mei Hsi
Lady on the Roof
Zhao Wenying
The Kingdom and the Beauty
Li Feng
Cinderella and her little Angels
Wang Dan Ying
Diau Charn
貂蝉
Laughter and Tears
Tao Gui Ru
A Mellow Spring
Zi Qin
The Battle of Love
Yeh Wei-fang
Lady in Distress
Jin Lan
Golden Lotus
Jin Lian; Shen Shu Wen
A Mating Story
Zhu Yu Zhen/Zhang Ma
The Chase
Zhang Xiu Juan
Beauty in the Maelstrom
Shi Li Fang
The Orphan Girl
Mei Jie
The Fisherman's Daughter
Aying
三星伴月
胡意美