Linda Lin Dai (; 26 December 1934 – 17 July 1964), born Ching Yuetyue (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 Chinese politician Cheng Siyuan.
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 Lung Shun Shing (), 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 to 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 Singing Under the Moon (Cui Cui), 1953 Spring Is in the Air, 1954 Love Is Like A Running Brook, 1956 Golden Lotus (Jin Lian Hua), 1957 Lady in Distress, 1957 Scarlet Doll (Hong Wa), 1958 Laughter and Tears, 1958 Diau Charn (Diao Chan), 1958 Cinderella and Her Little Angels, 1959 The Kingdom and the Beauty (Jiang Shan Mei Ren), 1959 Spring Frolic, 1959 Bachelors Beware, 1960 Les Belles (Qian Jiao Bai Mei), 1961 Love Without End (He Qing Qing), 1961 The Swallow, 1961 Madame White Snake (Bai She Zhuan), 1962 Love Parade, 1963 The Last Woman of Shang, 1964 Beyond the Great Wall, 1964 The Lotus Lamp, 1965 The Blue and the Black (Lan Yu Hei), 1966 The Mirror (Xie hen jing), 1967
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