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Name | Lin Dai |
Birthname | Cheng Yueru (程月如) |
Tradchinesename | 林黛 |
Simpchinesename | 林黛 |
Birthdate | December 26, 1934 |
Birthplace | Guilin, Guangxi, China |
Deathdate | July 17, 1964 |
Deathplace | Hong Kong |
Yearsactive | 1953–1964 |
Spouse | Long Shengxun (1961–1964) |
Linda Lin Dai ( 26 December 1934–17 July 1964) was a Chinese actress of Hong Kong films made in Mandarin during 1950s–60s. She was a star actress in the Shaw Brothers Studio stable.
Born Cheng Yueru (程月如) in Guilin, Lin Dai was awarded the Best Actress at the Asia Pacific Film Festival four times for her outstanding performances in a number of films produced by Shaw Studio. Whilst 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).
Category:1934 births Category:1964 deaths Category:Hong Kong actors Category:Actors who committed suicide Category:Suicides in Hong Kong Category:Drug-related deaths in Hong Kong Category:Drug-related suicides in China
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