Lin Dai

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Lin Dai
Chinese name	林黛 (Traditional)
Chinese name	林黛 (Simplified)
Birth name	Cheng Yueru (程月如)
Born	December 26, 1934(1934-12-26) Guilin, Guangxi, China
Died	July 17, 1964 (aged 29) Hong Kong
Years active	1953 - 1967
Spouse(s)	Long Shengxun (1961-1964)

Lin Dai (Chinese: 林黛 (born 26 December 1934 in Guilin as 程月如; died 17 July 1964) was a famous Chinese actress of Hong Kong films made in Mandarin during 1950-60s. 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 Lin Dai attended short courses on drama and linguistics at Columbia University, New York in 1958, she met and fell in love with Long Shengxun, a son of 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 sudden and tragic death shocked the Chinese community.