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Born | Linda Carol Seki
[1] September 13, 1951 [2] |
Died | December 17, 1987[2] | (aged 36)
Nationality | American [2] |
Other names | Sandy Stram, Linda Chang [2] |
Linda Wong (born Linda Carol Seki; [1] September 13, 1951 – December 17, 1987) was an American pornographic actress, [2] and one of the first Asian Americans to become a star in the American adult film industry. [3] In 1999, she was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame. [4] She was Japanese by ethnicity. [5]
Wong was raised in San Francisco, California. She was a former homecoming queen, [6] and later went to college to earn a degree in dance. [7] She worked as a ballerina and was married for a time to an attorney. [7]
Wong began nude modeling and after appearing in Hustler magazine, was approached to do adult films. [7] 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 [8] for a short time under the name "Linda Ching".
In 1981, she decided to retire. [8] She returned four years later [8] to star in The Erotic World of Linda Wong. She was planning yet another comeback in 1987 when she died of a drug overdose. [6] [8]
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. [9]
In 2011, Complex magazine ranked her at #25 in their list of "The Top 50 Hottest Asian Porn Stars of All Time." [6]