Linda Chung
Linda Chung, 鍾嘉欣 (Cantonese: Chung Ka-Yan, Mandarin: Chong Jia-Xin), (born April 9, 1984) is one of TVB's most popular and favorable actresses. She was signed to TVB after winning Miss Chinese International in 2004.
Biography
Linda was born in Vancouver, Canada and is the youngest in the family and has one elder brother and one elder sister. She graduated from Templeton Secondary School in 2002 in Vancouver. After, she then studied one year at the University of British Columbia, Canada. In 2004, she joined Miss Chinese International, a beauty contest organized by TVB, and she became the third Vancouverite in 4 years to win Miss Chinese International after Bernice Liu in 2001 and Shirley Zhou in 2002. The 1st and 2nd runner-up in the same year was Mandy Cho (Hong Kong) and Carlene Aguilar (Manila). She was also the winner of Miss Chinese Vancouver 2003, along with Dorothy Chan and Queenie Chung.
Career
Linda's first debut in Virtues of Harmony II shot her straight into popularity with her memorable performance as "Hung Bak Lam" (Michelle) and her pairing with Steven Ma. Linda is known as "Advertisement Queen" in Hong Kong because she has a lot of sponsors and advertisement deals. In her short year in Hong Kong thus far, the success and popularity that she has achieved is phenomenal. Now, she is even a singer in TVB's new album "金牌女兒紅" (All About Women) with her first song "發誓" (Swear).
Linda made her debut performing Sandy Lam's "Honesty" at TVB Extravaganza a few months ago. Her song for this CD is supposedly the theme song to her new series, 搜神傳 (an ancient mythical series about Gods).
Rise to fame
After the airing of the critically acclaimed TVB 40 episode drama series Heart of Greed, Linda's acting skills have been improved dramatically. She has been receiving positive reviews for her acting as the first leading actress "Seung Joi Sum" (常在心） in the drama and the number of her fans have been increasing since the drama's airing.
Linda is now being known as one of the prominent actresses, on a par with TVB A-list actresses Charmaine Sheh, Myolie Wu and Ada Choi that are at least 5 years older than her. However, it is to be said that she is given a myriads of opportunities in such a young age is because she always has less rumors and has a very good attitude in TVB.
Her performance is said to probably surpass Jessica Hsuan, Kenix Kwok, Flora Chan and any of the TVB actressess in the coming years.
Awards
- Miss Chinese Vancouver 2003
- Miss Photogenic (Miss Chinese Vancouver 2003)
- Miss Talent (Miss Chinese Vancouver 2003)
- Miss Snow Beauty (Miss Chinese Vancouver 2003)
- Miss Chinese International 2004
- TVB Anniversary Awards Most Improved Female Actress Award 2006
Filmography
- Virtues Of Harmony II (2004)
- Always Ready (2005)
- The Bitter Bitten (2006)
- Forensic Heroes (2006)
- Heavenly In-Laws (2007)
- Best Bet (2007)
- Heart of Greed (2007)
- Heavenly Gods (2007)
- Love is not all around (2007) (Movie Debut)
- The Gem of Life (2007)
- Forensic Heroes 2 (2007 and 2008)
Commercials
- TVB Miss Vancouver
- TVB Miss Vancouver Special
- PureVision
- Cosmo Slim
- TVB Miss Chinese International
- TVB Miss Chinese International Special
- Cosmetic Electrics
- Always Ready Sales Presentation
- New Earth's Wedding (with Ron Ng)
- Planters' Toothpaste
- TVB Christmas 2006
- Giving Blood Commercial
- The Bitter Bitten Sales Presentation
- Forensic Heroes Sales Presentation
- Marathon Sports
External links
References
- http://www.linda-chung.net/ from Linda Garden. Retrieved on 27 June 2007
- http://www.lindachung.ca/ from Linda's Cottage. Retrieved on 27 June 2007