
Linda Lin Dai
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1934-12-26
Day of Death
1964-07-17 (29 years old)
Place of Birth
Nanning, Guangxi, China
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
Acting
(2003)
(1967)
The Mirror
as Sun Yu-Hsia
(1966)
The Blue and the Black
as Tang Qi
(1966)
The Blue and the Black 2
as Tang Qi
(1965)
The Lotus Lamp
as Lady San/Liu Chen-Hsiung
(1964)
The Last Woman of Shang
as Su Da Ji
(1964)
Beyond the Great Wall
as Concubine Wang Chao Chun
(1963)
Love Parade
as Dr Ye De Mei
(1962)
Madam White Snake
as Pai Su Chen (White Snake)
(1961)
Les Belles
as Lan Lan
(1961)
Love Without End
as Li Qingqing
(1961)
The Swallow
as Yin Niu (The Swallow)
(1961)
The Fair Sex
as [Cameo]
(1960)
(1959)
The Kingdom and the Beauty
as Li Feng
(1959)
樑上佳人
as 趙文瑛
(1959)
Desire
as Guang Mei Hsi
(1959)
Cinderella and her little Angels
as Wang Dan Ying
(1958)
Diau Charn
as 貂蝉
(1958)
Laughter and Tears
as Tao Gui Ru
(1957)
A Mellow Spring
as Zi Qin
(1957)
Golden Lotus
as Jin Lian; Shen Shu Wen
(1957)
A Mating Story
as Zhu Yu Zhen/Zhang Ma
(1957)
The Battle of Love
as Yeh Wei-fang
(1957)
Lady in Distress
as Jin Lan
(1956)
The Orphan Girl
as Mei Jie
(1956)
Beauty in the Maelstrom
as Shi Li Fang
(1956)
The Fisherman's Daughter
as Aying
(1956)
The Chase
as Zhang Xiu Juan
(1937)
三星伴月
as 胡意美
Crew
(1963)
Love Parade
Costume Design