Linda Wong (pornographic actress)

Linda Wong
Born (1951-09-13)September 13, 1951[1]
San Francisco, California, USA[1]
Died December 7, 1987(1987-12-07) (aged 36)[1]
Nationality American[1]
Other names Sandy Stram, Linda Chang[1]

Linda Wong (September 13, 1951 – December 7, 1987) was an American pornographic actress[1] and one of the first Asians to become a star in the adult film industry.[2] In 1999, she was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame.[3] She was Japanese by ethnicity.[4]

Career

Wong, a former homecoming queen,[5] 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 legal prostitute in Las Vegas[6] for a short time under the name "Linda Ching".

In 1981, she decided to retire.[6] She returned four years later[6] to star in The Erotic World of Linda Wong. She was planning yet another comeback in 1987 when she died of a drug overdose.[5][6]

In 2011, Complex magazine ranked her at #25 in their list of "The Top 50 Hottest Asian Porn Stars of All Time."[5]

Partial filmography

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

See also

References

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