Linda Chung Ka-yan () (born 9 April 1984) is a
TVB actress and singer based in Hong Kong. She entered the industry in 2004 when she won the 2004
Miss Chinese International Pageant. She is now an
actress under TVB and a singer under the Star Entertainment label. She has starred in several TV series, most notably
Virtues of Harmony II (2004–05),
Heart of Greed (2007),
A Journey Called Life (2008), and
The Gem of Life (2008–09). She is a well-known actress in Hong Kong and worldwide right now.
Biography
Family
Chung was born in
Maple Ridge, British Columbia and raised in
Vancouver. She has an elder brother and an older sister.
Education
After graduating from Vancouver's
Templeton Secondary School, she got over 90 marks entered the
University of British Columbia(shorten "UBC") and wish to be a teacher in the future.
Pageant career
Linda participated and won champion in a beauty-talent show hosted by
Crystal Mall, an Asian mall located in
Burnaby,
British Columbia.
In 2003, Chung won the title of Miss Chinese Vancouver, along with three awards in the same event. In 2004, she joined Miss Chinese International, a beauty pageant organized by TVB. She was praised by Kelly Chen for her sweet face and voice the date before the pageant. As a result, she became the third contestant from Vancouver in four years to win Miss Chinese International.
Career
TV career
Early in TVB
Chung agreed and signed a contract with
TVB to be her artist. As her charming appearance,
TVB selected her to be one of the "Twelve new stars". Linda made her acting debut in the series
Virtues of Harmony II, the modern spin-off of the sitcom,
Virtues of Harmony. She triumphantly acted her first role, Michelle Hung, who was really popular in the year and her acting has been approved for her debut series. She was nominated the "Most Improved Female Actress Award" in 2004's
TVB Anniversary Awards for the first time. In a short period, Chung took in several advertisements and music video. Thus, with the successful role of Michelle Hung and the number of adverts,
TVB and many of who supervises the manufacture of series providing her opportunities for being one of the leading actress then.
Chung was not only be detected that she is a talented actress from Virtues of Harmony II up till now, but many actor and actress have also praised either for her hard work, pure, politeness, fealty, punctual, beauty, good manner, or her connotation, such as Nancy Sit, Lisa Wong, Frankie Lam and Hong Kong Film Awards "Best Actress" Kara Hui, Shawn Yue, Chen Kun, Hong Kong Film Awards "Best Actor" Kent Cheng, Sammy Leung
, Wong He, Joey Leung and Erica Yuen.
Growth
Thereafter, her role in
Always Ready,
The Biter Bitten and
Forensic Heroes earned her the "Most Improved Female Actress Award" in
TVB Anniversary Awards (2006). Moreover, her role in
Always Ready used to nominate the "Top 10 Most Favourite Character Role" Award for Sandra Sze in 2005. Her role Lam Dingding in
Forensic Heroes got an awards of the "Most Perfect sweetie" from one of the magazine in
Hong Kong, also garnering her a nomination for "Best Actress" and "My Most Favourite Female Character Role" in
TVB Anniversary Awards (2006) for the first time. Chung was the second time to be the leading actress in
Best Bet, her acting had received praise from Micheal Tse,
Idy Chan and
Louise Lee. Most importantly, her role, Sheung Joy Sum in the series
Heart of Greed has been described as her breakthrough role as she received much praise from audiences and several famous people. For instances,
Bobby Au-Yeung,
Alan Tam,
Adam Cheng,
Xia Yu, Paco Wong,
Charmaine Sheh,
Tavia Yeung,
Louis Yuen,
Louise Lee,
Kenix Kwok and
Lee San San. The role in
Heart of Greed garnering her a nomination for "Best Actress" and "My Most Favourite Female Character Role" in
TVB Anniversary Awards (2007). Among the two nominations, Linda was first got into top five of "My Most Favourite Female Character Role". Besides, she won the "Top 10 Most Favourite Character Role" and "My Favourite Couple" Awards for Sheung Joy Sum. After this, she is much more well-known in entertainment industry. As she can speak very fluent English, together with frugal, sweetly and sublimate images, she gains superiority in the entertainment industry. Her popularity increased after rumours about her and her famous co-star,
Raymond Lam, although both stars have denied them.
Rise
During the shooting of
A Journey Called Life, she received much praise from
Steven Ma, her fere in the situation comedy
Virtues of Harmony II few years ago and in this series, for her pure, talent, clever, beauty, good character and manner, her friendliness and also her ripe acting.
Among the five series which released in the year of 2008, Chung's acting has more recognized in A Journey Called Life as TVB Anniversary Awards "Best Actress" Sheren Tang used to praise for her acting and she received much praise from audiences. At the 41st TVB Anniversary Awards (2008), Chung was nominated top five in the "Best Actress" award for her role in A Journey Called Life. She was also nominated for "Most Favourite Female Character Role" Award for her role in Legend of the Demigods which was her first time to be the leading actress in the series. Though she can only act as a guest star in Forensic Heroes II, she received praise for her performance in the first sixth episodes. Her original role in the series Moonlight Resonance has been substituted to another actress for some unbeknown reason and she had been assigned to be Raymond Lam's screen couple, therefore, she acted the role of Yu So Sum eventually. But, this role still increased her visibility, as the scene of her fierce exchange with Yan Hung garnered a 50-point rating, making it the most-watched scene in all TVB series to date. She was also received praise from Xia Yu, Michelle Yim and Lee Heung-kam when she was acting this role.
Transition
In 2009, she finished filming
Ghost Writer,
A Watchdog's Tale and
Twilight Investigation. 2010's drama
Can't Buy Me Love was filmed from December 2009 to April 2010 with other actors and actresses such as
Charmaine Sheh and
Moses Chan. Besides, at the 42nd
TVB Anniversary Awards (2009), Chung was nominated top five in the "Best Supporting Actress" for her role in
The Gem of Life and this role received praise from
Ada Choi,
Lee San San and
Maggie Shiu.
Stabilization
In the year of 2010, Chung had four series, whom was the leading actress, televised.
A Watchdog's Tale came out in 2009 actually, but the series got the highest audience rating in the first season in 2010 and top five series in audience rating in the whole year. In
A Watchdog's Tale, she got another breakthrough while she was acting a likeness of the masculine role. At the
2010 TVB Anniversary Awards, Chung was nominated top five in the "Best Actress" award for her role in
Ghost Writer and also nominated top five in the "Most Favourite Female Character Role" award for her role in
Can't Buy Me Love. Furthermore, her role in
Ghost Writer won the "Top ten my favourite character".
Twilight Investigation was another series in the year, her acting has got approbated yet.
Recent situation
While she was filming the newest ancient costume drama in December 2010, she received praise from
Bowie Lam as for her weeping scene.
She was also captured by media to be the "The successor of fa-dan" and one of the "Best new-coming fa-dan" as her first-class performance in several series before the day lately.
Film career
Newcomer
Chung filmed her first movie,
Love Is Not All Around, alongside
Alex Fong,
Stephy Tang and
Sammy Leung in 2007, she was praise by its director
Patrick Kong. She was nominated for "Best New Performer" and won the Silver Award. She has already succeed in entering the films industry, the same year with
Kate Tsui.
Leading
Later, she was first being the leading actress in the film
Playboy Copsshe in 2008, she received praise in the almost last scenes. In the meantime, she acted as a guest star in the similar movie of
Love Is Not All Around,
L for Love, L for Lies, also got praise from the performance.
Her latest movie in 2010 is 72 Tenants of Prosperity. She has received praise from Eric Tsang for her hard work and pure, and also especially received full of praise from Hong Kong Film Awards "Best Actress" Anita Yuen for her effort, positive personality, hard work and improvement in this movie.
Music career
Early entry
In addition to acting, she used to receive praise in some live show for her singing. Linda has sung the theme songs for some of the series that she has starred in then, including her first personal song "Swear" for
Legends of Demigods,
Best Bet,
A Journey Called Life,
A Watchdog's Tale and the subtheme for
Heart of Greed. She has also sung the children's songs, which were welcomed by children. In May 2008, Linda signed a deal with Star Entertainment which launched her into a successful music career. Her first album was released on 20 August. Her album "
Dinner for One, World for Two" achieved gold status in Hong Kong based on the number of sales and she earned the title of "The best selling female newcomer" in the year. This album garnered her several awards at the end of 2008, including "Gold Newcomer Awards" and "Most liked Female Newcomer". Her fisrt plugged song was "World for Two". Her second plugged song "I'm actually unhappy" got a high click rating in YouTube. Due to its success, Star Entertainment released a second version of her album, "
Dinner for One, World for Two Reloaded", which included more songs and more bonus material.
Keep on
Her second album,
My Love Story, was released on 12 November 2009 and has since been classified gold. The songs of "Thinking of you day and night", "One Day" and "Life and Death for Love" were all owe to her works on melody. Among these three songs, "Thinking of you day and night" was the first plugged song and was much more conspicuous. She won awards in different music platforms based on this song. "Fighting in the light and shadows" was the second plugged song. She has since collaborated with another Star Entertainment singer, Stephanie Cheng. "Ngoi Dak Hei (Ai De Qi)" is the product of their co-operation. This song reached the champion on TVB's JSG Solid Gold programme.
Latest development
Recently, her new song "If You Want Me" has just released in January 2011. She was praised by
CR2 DJ Vani Wong, Alton Yu and
Wasabi for her outstanding performance. Apart from the above, she received much praises from three
DJ who are in the
CR2 "The Playtoy Mansion" program and she was also praised by
Sammy Leung and Siu Yi in the
CR2 "Good Morning King" program in February, for her "Jade Girl" image which is not only an image in the entertainment industry, but she is also behaves in reality.
In 2011, her third album, My Private Selection, was released on 25 March. The album was qualitatively a new songs plus choiceness. It was not only recorded her first plugged song "If you want me", but it also recorded another four new recording songs "Luo Suo", "De Xian Zhao Ni", "I'll Be Waiting For You", "Ngoi Dak Hei (Ai De Qi) solo version" and her thirteen choiceness songs from Dinner for One, World for Two debut album and My Love Story.
Personal
Whilst filming Heart of Greed in 2006, rumours about Chung and her famous co-star, Raymond Lam, erupted saying that Raymond was "chasing" after rising fa-dan Linda. The rumour mill has continued to roll, with queries about whether they are really dating or have dated still arising until Lam had been muckraked in 2011.
She is still the youngest A-grade actress (in TVB), and her salary per episode is over $10,000.
Chung is a very well known actress and singer. Her number of fans is the top 5 rank in Hong Kong. and also top 150 rank in the worldwide.
Filmography
Television
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! Title
! Role
! Position
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TVB Anniversary Awards
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2004 ||
Virtues of Harmony II 《皆大歡喜》 ||
Hung Bak Nam 洪白嵐 (Michelle) ||Supporting Actress||2004 TVB Anniversary Awards|Most Improved Actress Nomination (Top 20)
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《富豪海灣非凡情緣》 || Ling ||Guest Role||
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2005 ||
The Zone 《奇幻潮》|| Cathy ||Guest Role||
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Always Ready 《隨時候命》|| Sandra Sze Chor Kei 施楚淇 || 3rd Leading Actress||
Most Improved Actress
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2006 ||
The Biter Bitten 《人生馬戲團》 || Lo Dan 路 丹 || 2nd Leading Actress||
Most Improved Actress
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Forensic Heroes 《法證先鋒》|| Lam Ding Ding 林汀汀 || 2nd Leading Actress||
Most Improved ActressBest Actress Nomination (Top 20)My Favourite Female Character Nomination (Top 20)
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2007 ||
Heavenly In-Laws 《我外母唔係人》|| Zhi Mei 紫 微 || 2nd Leading Actress||
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Best Bet 《迎妻接福》||
Sheila To Lai Ying 杜麗瑩 ||Leading Actress||
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Heart of Greed 《溏心風暴》|| Sheung Joi Sum 常在心 || One of the Main Leads ||
Best Actress Nomination (Top 20)My Favourite Female Character Nomination (Top 5)
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2008 ||
A Journey Called Life 《金石良緣》||
Sze Ka-Ka 施嘉嘉 || Leading Actress ||
Best Actress Nomination (Top 5)
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Forensic Heroes II 《法證先鋒II》 || Lam Ding Ding 林汀汀 || Guest Star ||
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Moonlight Resonance 《溏心風暴之家好月圓》|| Yu So Sum 于素心 || One of the Main Leads ||
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Legend of the Demigods 《搜神傳》||
Gai Choi-chi 薊彩芝 || Leading Actress ||
My Favourite Female Character Nomination (Top 5)
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The Gem of Life 《珠光寶氣》 || Elise Sung Chi Ling 宋子淩 || Supporting Actress ||
Best Supporting Actress Nomination (Top 5)
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2009 ||
A Watchdog's Tale 《老友狗狗》 ||
Sammi Lai Sin-yu 黎羨如 || Leading Actress||
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2010 ||
Ghost Writer 《蒲松齡》 ||
Lau Sum Yu 柳心如 || Leading Actress ||
Best Actress Nomination (Top 5)
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Can't Buy Me Love 《公主嫁到》|| Ng Say-duk 吳四德 || Second Female Lead ||
My Favourite Female Character Nomination (Top 5)
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Twilight Investigation 《囧探查過界》 ||
Chung Yee Tak 鍾意得 || Leading Actress ||
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2011 ||
Yes, Sir. Sorry, Sir! 《點解阿Sir係阿Sir》 || Carman Koo Ka Nam 古嘉嵐 (Miss Cool)|| Second Female Lead ||
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TBA ||
Dwellings of Men and Women 《抉宅男女》 ||
Kwan Ka Lok 關嘉樂 || Leading Actress ||
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The Twelve Mills of Jiujiang《九江十二坊》 || Sung Chi Ching 宋子澄 || Leading Actress ||
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Fun with Liza and the Gods of Life 《荃加福祿壽探案》 || Sze Ying 詩 影 || Guest Star ||
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Yue Fu's Hidden Dragon 《樂府藏龍》 || Pin Yuk-yin卞玉嫣 || Leading Actress ||
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Mui Siu Ching's new modern series || || ||
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Films
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! Year
! Title
! Role
! Position
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Hong Kong Film Awards
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| 2007 ||
Love Is Not All Around 《十分愛》 || Ching-ching 晴 晴 || 2nd Female Lead ||
Best New Performer Nomination
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|rowspan=2|2008||
Playboy Cops 《花花型警》 || Lisa麗 莎 || Leading Actress ||
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L For Love♥ L For Lies 《我的最愛》 || Yan 阿 欣 || Guest Star ||
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|rowspan=1|2010||
72 Tenants of Prosperity 《72家租客》 || Ha Nui 哈女 || One of the main leads ||
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Discography
Albums
Awards
Major music awards statistics
Crystal MallCover Girl 2002 - First Champion
Crystal MallCover Girl 2002 - Best Performance of swimsuit
Miss Chinese Vancouver 2003 - Champion
Miss Chinese Vancouver 2003 - Miss Photogenic
Miss Chinese Vancouver 2003 - Miss Talent
Miss Chinese Vancouver 2003 - Miss Snow Beauty
Miss Chinese International 2004 - Champion
Magazine of week 8 - Most Perfect sweetie
Next TV Awards 2006 - Yumei Award
TVB Anniversary Awards2006 - Most Improved Female Actress Award 2006
Next TV Awards 2007 - mYoga Female Artist Award
Yahoo! Buzz Awards 2007 - Most Rise in Searches TV Artist 2007
Next TV Awards 2007 - healthiness star
TVB Children song Presentation 2007 - Top 10 song
Metro Radio Children song Presentation 2007 - Top 10 song
Next TV Awards 2008 - Ranked #9
27th Hong Kong Film Awards - Nomination of Best New Performer
Hong Kong film director society - Silver Award
TVB Children song Presentation 2008 - Top 10 song
TVB Children song Presentation 2008 - Golden award
Metro Radio Children song Presentation 2008 - Top 10 song
Metro Radio Children song Presentation 2008 - the year song
Yahoo! Buzz Awards 2008 - Most Rise in Searches Newcomer Artist 2008
TVB8 Music Awards 2008 - Best Newcomer Silver Award 2008
Metro Radio Newcomer Presentation 2008 - Best Live Female Performer 2008
JSG third round Music Awards 2008 - song award
Yes!Idol Award Presentation 2008 - King of New Singers Award 2008-(Female)
Yes!Idol Award Presentation 2008 - Most Rise TV Idol
Metro Radio Hits Music Award Presentation 2008 - Metro Radio Hits King of New Singers Award 2008-(Female) Linda Chung
JSG Music Awards 2008 - Best Female Newcomer 2008 - Silver
(雪碧榜) Award Ceremony 2008 - Newcomer Awards 2008
SINA Music Awards 2008 - My Favourite Female Newcomer 2008 - Gold
RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards - Best Female newcomer (outstanding award)
Astro Awards 2008 - Favorite Onscreen Couple 2008 (with Raymond Lam)
Astro Awards 2008 - My Favorite Character 2008 - Sheung Joy Sum
IFPIHong Kong CD Sales Presentation 2008 - Most Sales Hong Kong Female newcomer
Next TV Awards 2009 - Ranked #6
Yes!Idol Award Presentation 2009 - 2009 Yes Idol
Yes!Idol Award Presentation 2009 - Karaoke Female Idol
JSG third round Music Awards - song award (Missing you day and night)
Metro Radio Hits 2009 Awards - Best Karaoke Song (Missing you day and night)
Metro Radio Hits 2009 Awards - Best Metro Radio Hits Best Second Year Singer (Female)
JSG Music Awards 2009 - Best Performance Award - Bronze
JSG Music Awards 2009 - Best Duet - Bronze (with Phillip Wei)
SINA Music Awards - Top 20 song (Missing you day and night)
(雪碧榜) Award Ceremony - Most improved award
Next TV Awards 2010 - Ranked #6
Next TV Awards 2010 - Polo Santa Roberta Award
JSG first round Music Awards 2010 - song award
JSG first round Music Awards 2010 - song award (with Stephanie Cheng)
My AODMalaysia My favourite TVB series Presentation 2010 - Top ten my favourite character
JSG Music Awards 2010 - Best Duet - Bronze (with Stephanie Cheng)
References
External links
Linda Chung Official Website
Linda Cottage
Official TVB Blog of Linda Chung
Blog at Alive not dead
Linda Chung on Sina Twitter
Miss Chinese International Profile
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Category:1984 births
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Category:Miss Chinese International winners
Category:People from Vancouver
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Category:University of British Columbia alumni
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