Linda Lin Dai
Actor
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).
Filmography
The Blue and the Black
as Tang Qi 1966
Love Without End
as Li Qingqing 1961
The Blue and the Black 2
as Tang Qi 1966
Cinema Hong Kong: The Beauties of the Shaw Studio
as (footage) 2003
Les Belles
as Lan Lan 1961
The Last Woman of Shang
as Su Da Ji 1964
Beyond the Great Wall
as Concubine Wang Chao Chun 1964
The Lotus Lamp
as Lady San/Liu Chen-Hsiung 1965
Madam White Snake
as Pai Su Chen (White Snake) 1962
Diau Charn
as 貂蝉 1958
Cinderella and her little Angels
as Wang Dan Ying 1959
The Mirror
as Sun Yu-Hsia 1967
Love Parade
as Dr Ye De Mei 1963
A Mating Story
as Zhu Yu Zhen/Zhang Ma 1957
Lady in Distress
as Jin Lan 1957
A Mellow Spring
as Zi Qin 1957