Linda Wong (pornographic actress)
{{short description|American pornographic actress}}
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| birth_name = Linda Carol Seki{{Imdb name|name=Linda Wong|id=0939223}}
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| birth_place = San Francisco, California, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|mf=yes|1987|12|17|1951|09|13}}
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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.{{cite book|last=Shimizu|first=Celine Parreñas|title=The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene|year=2007|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BToxwPEf814C&q=%22Linda+Wong%22&pg=PA154 |publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-4033-1 |pages=153–159}} In 1999, she was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame.{{cite web|url=http://business.avn.com/articles/video/Masseuse-3-and-Caf-Flesh-2-Top-XRCO-Awards-36335.html |title=Masseuse 3 and Café Flesh 2 Top XRCO Awards|work=AVN|accessdate=6 June 2015}} She was Japanese by ethnicity.{{cite web|title=Linda Wong|website=Porn.com|url=https://www.porn.com/pornstars/linda-wong-24977}}
Early life
Wong was raised in San Francisco, California. She was a former homecoming queen,{{cite magazine|url=http://www.complex.com/girls/2011/09/the-top-50-hottest-asian-porn-stars-of-all-time/Linda-Wong |title=The Top 50 Hottest Asian Porn Stars of All Time|accessdate=2013-08-02|author=Gabriel Alvarez|date=2011-09-19|magazine=Complex}} and later went to college to earn a degree in dance.{{cite news |last1=Emmers |first1=Robert H. |title=Porn fun? |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29896385/ |accessdate=27 March 2019 |publisher=The Billings Gazette |date=2 September 1977}} 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[http://pornstarupdates.wordpress.com/2007/09/24/where-is-linda-wong-dead-from-an-accidental-drug-overdose/ Where is Linda Wong? Dead from an Accidental Drug Overdose], Archived at: {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100107025528/http://pornstarupdates.wordpress.com/2007/09/24/where-is-linda-wong-dead-from-an-accidental-drug-overdose/ |date=January 7, 2010 }} 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)
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).{{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0939223/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm | title=Linda Wong - Biography | website=IMDb }} 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
- https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0939223/bio/
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External links
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20171017081828/http://www.lindawongxxx.com/ Linda Wong Online FanClub]
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Category:American pornographic film actresses
Category:American pornographic film actors of Japanese descent
Category:Drug-related deaths in California