Linda Lee Cadwell
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Linda Lee Cadwell (born 21 March 1945), a.k.a. Linda Emery, is a teacher and the widow of martial arts master and actor Bruce Lee, founder of Jeet Kune Do. She was born and grew up in Seattle, Washington, USA. She is of Swedish and German descent.
She met Bruce Lee while in high school. He was attending the University of Washington at the time. Eventually, she became one of his Kung Fu students. As a pre-medical student, she attended the University of Washington, the same university Bruce Lee went to as a philosophy major.
She continued to take Kung Fu lessons from him while attending college. They married on August 17, 1964, a few credits short of graduation from the University of Washington. They had two children together, Brandon Lee and Shannon Lee. Bruce Lee had opened his own Kung Fu school at the time and was teaching Jeet Kune Do. Bruce Lee suddenly died on July 20, 1973 of a cerebral edema.
She was then briefly married to Tom Bleecker, beginning in 1988, but they divorced in 1990. She married Bruce Cadwell in 1991 and is still married to him today.
Her son Brandon Lee, an actor like his father, died in a fatal shooting accident on a movie set while filming The Crow on March 31, 1993, nearly 20 years after his father's death. The circumstances behind his death as well as his father's caused some fans to believe he had actually been murdered and some to believe his death was part of a curse on the Lee family.
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Linda wrote the 1975 book Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew (ISBN 0-446-89407-9), on which the 1993 feature film Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story was based.
