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

Cinema Hong Kong: The Beauties of the Shaw Studio

Love Without End

Les Belles

Love Parade

The Mirror

Madam White Snake

The Last Woman of Shang

Diau Charn

Beyond the Great Wall

Filmography

2003 Cinema Hong Kong: The Beauties of the Shaw Studio

as (footage)

1967 The Mirror

as Sun Yu-Hsia

1966 The Blue and the Black 2

as Tang Qi

1966 The Blue and the Black

as Tang Qi

1965 The Lotus Lamp

as Lady San/Liu Chen-Hsiung

1964 Beyond the Great Wall

as Concubine Wang Chao Chun

1964 The Last Woman of Shang

as Su Da Ji

1963 Love Parade

as Dr Ye De Mei

1962 Madam White Snake

as Pai Su Chen (White Snake)

1961 Love Without End

as Li Qingqing

1961 The Fair Sex

as [Cameo]

1961 The Swallow

as Yin Niu (The Swallow)

1961 Les Belles

as Lan Lan

1960 Bachelors Beware

1959 Desire

as Guang Mei Hsi

1959 樑上佳人

as 趙文瑛

1959 The Kingdom and the Beauty

as Li Feng

1959 Cinderella and her little Angels

as Wang Dan Ying

1958 Diau Charn

as 貂蝉

1958 Laughter and Tears

as Tao Gui Ru