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Linda Wong
BornLinda Carol Seki
(1951-09-13)September 13, 1951
San Francisco, California, U.S.
DiedDecember 17, 1987(1987-12-17) (aged 36)
NationalityAmerican
Other namesSandy Stram, Linda Chang

Linda Wong (born Linda Carol Seki; September 13, 1951 – December 17, 1987) was an American pornographic actress, and one of the first Asian Americans to become a star in the American adult film industry. In 1999, she was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame. She was Japanese by ethnicity.

Early life

Wong was raised in San Francisco, California. She was a former homecoming queen, and later went to college to earn a degree in dance. She worked as a ballerina and was married for a time to an attorney.

Career

Wong began nude modeling and after appearing in Hustler magazine, was approached to do adult films. She first broke into the adult film business in 1976 with Oriental Babysitter and The Jade Pussycat, in which she co-starred with Georgina Spelvin and John Holmes. According to Playboy's October 1977 pictorial "Ladies of Joy" and Playboy's 1980 Girls of Playboy 4, she worked as a masseuse in Las Vegas for a short time under the name "Linda Ching".

In 1981, she decided to retire. She returned four years later to star in The Erotic World of Linda Wong. She was planning yet another comeback in 1987 when she died of a drug overdose.

Spouses

Brian Ching (September 14, 1969 - December 1972) (divorced) Cid Spader Mad Jack(? - December 17, 1987) (her death)

Death

Wong died of an accidental drug overdose in 1987 in a motel in Petaluma, California. At the time of her death she was out on bail after having spent two months in jail on a drug charge (she had been arrested trying to buy codeine with a forged prescription). She was facing at least a year in prison when she overdosed in a motel room in Petaluma, CA.

Awards

In 2011, Complex magazine ranked her at #25 in their list of "The Top 50 Hottest Asian Porn Stars of All Time."

Partial filmography

  • Oriental Babysitter (1976)
  • China Lust (1976)
  • China DeSade (1977)
  • Baby Face (1977)
  • The Jade Pussycat (1977)
  • Stormy (1980)
  • Swedish Erotica 10 (1981)

See also

References

  1. ^ Linda Wong at IMDb
  2. ^ "Linda Wong". IAFD. Archived from the original on 2016-01-16. Retrieved 2015-06-06.
  3. Shimizu, Celine Parreñas (2007). The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene. Duke University Press. pp. 153–159. ISBN 978-0-8223-4033-1.
  4. "Masseuse 3 and Café Flesh 2 Top XRCO Awards". AVN. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
  5. "Linda Wong". Porn.com.
  6. ^ Gabriel Alvarez (2011-09-19). "The Top 50 Hottest Asian Porn Stars of All Time". Complex. Retrieved 2013-08-02.
  7. ^ Emmers, Robert H. (2 September 1977). "Porn fun?". The Billings Gazette. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  8. ^ Where is Linda Wong? Dead from an Accidental Drug Overdose, Archived at: Archived January 7, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  9. "Linda Wong - Biography". IMDb.

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