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Home/People/Linda Lin Dai
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Born
Dec 26, 1934Died: Jul 17, 1964
Lived 29 years
Place of Birth
Nanning, Guangxi, China
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female

Career Highlights

30
Movies
0
TV Shows
Also Known As
Lin Dai
Lam Doi
林黛
Dai Lin
Lâm Đại

Linda Lin Dai

Acting

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).
Cinema Hong Kong: The Beauties of the Shaw Studio poster

Cinema Hong Kong: The Beauties of the Shaw Studio

as (footage)
2003
The Mirror poster

The Mirror

as Sun Yu-Hsia
1967
The Blue and the Black 2 poster

The Blue and the Black 2

as Tang Qi
1966
The Blue and the Black poster

The Blue and the Black

as Tang Qi
1966
The Lotus Lamp poster

The Lotus Lamp

as Lady San/Liu Chen-Hsiung
1965
Beyond the Great Wall poster

Beyond the Great Wall

as Concubine Wang Chao Chun
1964
The Last Woman of Shang poster

The Last Woman of Shang

as Su Da Ji
1964
Love Parade poster

Love Parade

as Dr Ye De Mei
1963
Madam White Snake poster

Madam White Snake

as Pai Su Chen (White Snake)
1962
Love Without End poster

Love Without End

as Li Qingqing
1961
The Fair Sex poster

The Fair Sex

as [Cameo]
1961
The Swallow poster

The Swallow

as Yin Niu (The Swallow)
1961
Les Belles poster

Les Belles

as Lan Lan
1961
Bachelors Beware poster

Bachelors Beware

Cast
1960
Desire poster

Desire

as Guang Mei Hsi
1959
Lady on the Roof poster

Lady on the Roof

as Zhao Wenying
1959
The Kingdom and the Beauty poster

The Kingdom and the Beauty

as Li Feng
1959
Cinderella and her little Angels poster

Cinderella and her little Angels

as Wang Dan Ying
1959
Diau Charn poster

Diau Charn

as 貂蝉
1958
Laughter and Tears poster

Laughter and Tears

as Tao Gui Ru
1958