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Linda Chung Ka-yan (; born on 9 April 1984) is a Chinese-Canadian actress, singer and songwriter. She signed a long-term contract with
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in 2004 after winning the
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. Chung was always Non-official Best Actress during the years in TVB. Chung ended her contract with TVB in early 2018. As a singer, Chung has released four studio albums, '' Dinner for One, World for Two'' (2008), ''My Love Story'' (2009), '' My Private Selection'' (2011), and ''Love Love Love'' (2012). Chung is currently a
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KOL.


Early life

Chung was born in Maple Ridge and raised in
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with an older brother and sister. After graduation from Vancouver's
Templeton Secondary School Templeton Secondary School is a public secondary school located in the Grandview-Woodland neighbourhood on the East Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Its student teams won the SmartAsk competition in 2004, the junior ''Reach For The Top'' pro ...
, Chung studied education at the
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for two years. Beginning her public life in 2002, Chung won the title of Miss Crystal Cover Girl, a beauty-talent contest organised and hosted annually by Crystal Mall, an Asian-themed shopping centre located in the Metrotown area of
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. In 2003, Chung won the title of
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, along with three other awards at the same event, earning her the chance to participate, and eventually winning Miss Chinese International at the
Miss Chinese International Pageant 2004 Miss Chinese International Pageant 2004, the 16th Miss Chinese International Pageant, was held on January 17, 2004 in Hong Kong. The pageant was organized and televised by TVB in Hong Kong. At the end of the pageant, Miss Chinese International 2 ...
, hosted in Hong Kong. She was praised by
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for her sweet face and voice the day before this pageant. Chung became the third contestant from Vancouver in four years to win the title of this annually-held event.


TV career


2004–2005: Entry and initial success

After winning the Miss Chinese International Pageant, Chung was signed under
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. Chung made her acting debut in the series ''
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'', the modern spin-off of the sitcom, ''
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''. Her performance was somewhat popular in the year, garnering positive reviews from the public. She was nominated for the Most Improved Female Actress award at the 2004's
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for the first time. Chung also participated in several advertisements and music videos within her first year in the industry. This initial success led
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to name her as one of the "Twelve New Stars." Other industry professionals also gave praise to Chung during this initial period such as
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.


2006–2008: Breakthrough and A-grade actress

In 2006, after starring in '' Always Ready'', ''
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'' and ''
Forensic Heroes ''Forensic Heroes'' (Traditional Chinese: 法證先鋒) is a TVB modern suspense series broadcast in June 2006 starring Bobby Au-Yeung, Frankie Lam, Yoyo Mung, Linda Chung, Raymond Cho & Florence Kwok in the first installment of the '' Foren ...
'', Chung won her first major award "Most Improved Female Actress. Chung's breakthrough role came in 2007, where she played a character named Sheung Joy Sum (lit. meaning: always at heart) in a popular series of that year, '' Heart of Greed''. Chung received much praise from audiences and several famous people. A couple of scenes involving her character generated the highest peaks for the drama's ratings, one was when her character exposed that Alfred Ching Leung deceived her, garnering a 39-point rating; another was when Tong Chi On proposed marriage to her, garnering a 48-point rating. This role gave her a nomination for Best Actress and My Most Favourite Female Character Role for the second year in a row. During the shooting of '' A Journey Called Life'', Chung received much praise from co-star Steven Ma, for her beauty, good manner, and ripe acting. The two have worked together in a previous collaboration of ''
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''. Among the five series that were released in 2008, Chung received most recognition for her acting in '' A Journey Called Life''. She received praises from
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as well as the public. At the 41st TVB Anniversary Awards (2008), Chung was nominated in the top 5 of the Best Actress award for her role in this series. She was also nominated for the top 5 Most Favorite Female Character Award for Legend of the Demigods, her first leading role in a period drama. Chung then acted as Yu So Sum in ''
Moonlight Resonance ''Moonlight Resonance'' (Traditional Chinese: 溏心風暴之家好月圓) is a 2008 grand production HDTV drama by TVB. It is a spiritual sequel to 2007's award-winning series, ''Heart of Greed'' featuring most of the original cast members. Th ...
'' and received some recognitions for this role. A scene in the drama, telling her fierce exchange with Yan Hung, garnered a 50-point rating, making it the most-watched scene in all
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series to-date. Chung also received praises from Ha Yu,
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when she was acting this role.


2009–2010: Success in comedy and villain works

In 2009, Chung performed in ''
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'', ''
A Watchdog's Tale ''A Watchdog's Tale'' (Traditional Chinese: 老友狗狗, literally ''Friends of Dogs''), is a 2010 TVB modern drama series. It stars Linda Chung and Steven Ma as the main leads, with Kent Cheng, Natalie Tong, Raymond Wong and Maggie Shiu as t ...
'', ''
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'', as well as ''
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''. At the 42nd TVB Anniversary Awards (2009), Chung was nominated top 5 in the Best Supporting Actress for her role in ''
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'' and this role received praise from
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. In 2010, Chung had four series,
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released in 2009 actually, but the series got the highest audience rating in the first season in 2010 and top five series in audience rating in the whole year. In ''
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'', Chung got another breakthrough while she was acting a likeness of the masculine role. At the 2010 TVB Anniversary Awards, Chung was nominated top 5 in the Best Actress award for her role in ''Ghost Writer'' and also nominated top 5 in the Most Favourite Female Character Role award for her role in ''
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''. ''
Twilight Investigation ''Twilight Investigation'' () is a 2010 TVB modern drama series. Synopsis Former police officer Yip Kwok Cheung (Bill Chan) has set up a private detective agency. Members of the team have their own strengths. Gei On Gui ( Wong Hei) (known best as ...
'' was another series in the year, her acting has got approbated yet.


2011–2012: Outstanding years

While Chung was filming the ancient costume drama "
River of Wine ''River of Wine'' is a 2011 Hong Kong period drama television series produced by Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) under executive producer Wong Wai-sing. It stars Bowie Lam, Linda Chung and Sunny Chan as the main leads, with Elena Kong, Nan ...
" in December 2010, she received praise from
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as for her weeping scene. Chung was also captured by media to be the "successor of fa-dan" and one of the "Best new-coming fa-dan" with
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as the first-class performance of Chung in several series before the day. In 2011, Chung was the second female lead in "
Yes, Sir. Sorry, Sir! ''Yes, Sir. Sorry, Sir!'' (Cantonese: 點解阿Sir係阿Sir), is a 2011 Hong Kong television drama starring Moses Chan, Linda Chung, Tavia Yeung and Ron Ng. Produced by Lau Kar Ho. ''Yes Sir. Sorry, Sir!'' is a TVB production. "阿Sir" is a ...
." She had just played her character Miss Koo from the 8th episode till the end. Although she only had unrequited love for one of the male lead in the series (
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), she became the focus for the audience and internet users by the three sections of Miss Koo. First, she appeared as a cool bowling coach initially. Next, Miss Koo seems to be a melting glacier as she was affected by Law Sir (
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's character), this made the audience pay enthusiastic attention on their sweet and emotional scenes. When it was nearly came to an end, Law Sir's undercover identity was finally revealed, Miss Koo was collapsed since she has been deceived by Law Sir and her sister (
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's character). This also left a deep impression in the audiences' mind. The audiences had massive praises for her performance and agreed that she was perfectly capable of competing in Best Actress category for this role at the year-end awards ceremony, despite being second female lead. It was rare that the major newspapers also reported the above matter at the same time. She was not only supported by Chan and Yeung, but she also supported by Queenie Chu, Cilla Kung and
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. On the whole, Chung received full of praise and Miss Koo is one of the representative work for Linda Chung. With Chung's amazing performances till mid 2011,
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"Best Actress"
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, Hong Kong Film director
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, Hong Kong CR1 DJ, Tvb actress Helen Ma,
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praised support for her either to be the next "Best Actress" or to get an award in
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, or to be the first-actress. Finally, she was nominated for Top 5 Best Actress and Most Favourite Female Character Role award for her role in "
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." She got the My Most Supportive Performance award from ''
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Anniversary Awards'' in 2011 for Miss Koo in '' Yes Sir, Sorry Sir'' according to voting from audience. However, Miss Koo lost out the Most Favourite Female Character Role award at the 2011
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, and
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was criticised as later the actual results of the online voting actually proved her the rightful winner of the Most Favourite Female Character Role award, instead of
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. Fans were also outraged that she left the 2011
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empty handed. Chung started to be the Non-official Best Actress. Chung filmed " L'Escargot" in 2010 and it was finally aired in 2012. Her character was involved in a complicated love triangle with
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's characters. She herself spoke about the many new challenges she faced while portraying her character. In addition, her relation line with Tse has gained her more public exposure and was the topic of popular discussion. Her show was praised by
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and Hinson Chou. On 19 March 2012, her new series
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aired and her character Ko Yu-chu spread fun to the public. Her professional attitude and acting were praised by
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and Steven Ma, especially Ma mentioned she was still maintaining the purity of heart and having progress in her acting continually. She and Steven Ma collaborated five times in TVB, was a terrific couple on screen. Her third series
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was aired on TVB from 30 Apr to 8 June 2012, portraying her as an ancient version of Ms. Cool.
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wondered Chung do not know dancing as he had watched she played hula hoop, he mentioned Chung was so hard-working and serious in practising dancing. Bobby said Chung was only alike a little girl in their first starring "
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", however, she is completely changed and honed during these years, either acting or in life. He stated her purity have not changed over the years.
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also mentioned the purity of Chung. Her fourth series ''Witness Insecurity'' was aired from 2 to 27 July 2012, making her the actress with the highest exposure rate for the first half of the year, having four series already out and probably nothing left for the rest of the year. Many viewers criticised about the way TVB was showing her series too close to one another. However, Witness Insecurity garnered high TVB viewership ratings, which turned out to be unexpected by TVB. On the ending note, the sad ending for this series also received a huge outcry from viewers, most reflected they preferred a good ending and requested for a re-make of the ending. Not only Chung's acting was praised by public, but she and her co-star
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were gaining high popularity to be the new screen couple. She was praised by
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, co-star
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and film director
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Chung was again owning great support from public will by Witness Insecurity this year. Jason Chan, Michael Dao,
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support Chung to gain an "Best Actress" Award for the year. However, she lost the nomination of My favorite female character role in TVB Awards Anniversary Ceremony 2012 without any reason. The award was given to
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at last. Although Chung can gain the nomination and get into top 5 of Best Actress, TVB still received a lot of complaints about Chung not having a nomination of My favorite female character role and it was the second time caused Chung to be the Non-official Best Actress. Moreover, the public voting also proved Chung and
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as the rightful winner of the actress awards. In the series Missing You, Chung was leading other new actors and actresses such as Jason Chan,
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, Lin Xia Wei, and Calvin Chan.
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was the only senior actor there.


2013–2014: Stepped to the peak

In 2013, Chung won the champion of "Ten TV entertainer" by public voting in the Next TV Publishing Ceremony 2013. She has already gained top ten of the TV entertainer for six years consecutively, which proofing her popularity and outstanding performance in the past years. Chung also won the Most Popular Actress in the largest film forum "Vietnam DMA awards ceremony" of the Year Award in two consecutive years in Vietnam. In May, Chung participated in the variety show " Office of Practical Jokes", which presided by
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, acting a plot to treat the world top magician. Her outstanding performance from intimidating by hamsters to injuring magician and Lee, gained much appreciated by the public, and again having widespread media coverage and discussion of internet forums. Not only presided Lee, but many professionals also praised her acting in the plot, such that
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,
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,
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, Bob Lam, Ding Tze Ko,
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,
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, Chung was labelled as the "Best Actress" by the public audiences again and this is the third time for Chung to be the Non-official Best Actress. Chung starred in 2013 TVB's grand productions 30 episodes '' Brother's Keeper'', co-starring with
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. She acted as a fashion designer Rachel Cheuk. The series spans from 1991 to 2013. Chung and her co-star
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became a screen couple as their co-operation gaining high popularity in the public. Chung gained support by co-star
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, Joe Ma,
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, Joey Man,
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, Niki Chow,
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, and so on, to get the "Best Actress" that year. On 1 December 2013, Chung finally got her first Best Actress in "TVB Awards Ceremony 2013 Malaysia Star Ceremony", as the award is 100% by public voting. Chung was not only gained the "Best Actress", but she also gained the My Favorite TV Role, became the first 1980s artist to win the "Best Actress" title. In 2014, Chung filmed TVB Gold New Year 2014 micro film "A Time of Love", starring with South Korea actor
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. Their segment was the most popular episode in the whole set although broadcast on Saturday, gained up to 28 points in rating. On 26 March, the
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invited Chung to a one-hour lecture of "Meet the Professional Series III: Road to Leading Actress – Linda Chung" as the theme for sharing with students about the choice of life, transformation, and practice the ideal. Chung is the first Hong Kong TV actress to be a lecturer who was invited to the university. Her series for 2014 were Tiger Cubs II and All That Is Bitter Is Sweet.


2015–2018: End works in TVB

Chung's only series for 2015 is
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, co-starred with
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, Liza Wang, Alex Fong among others, while she was busy with work in the music industry.
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and Liza Wang had highly praised towards Chung about her attitude and performance in
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. David Siu mentioned Chung has potential on acting in an interview. He likes Chung acted from basic til qualified right now, sometimes provided new elements in her performance as well.
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also mentioned Chung acting well, especially in the variety show Office of Practical Jokes, Chow informed Chung continue to maintain these standards in her acting. Gloria Tang mentioned she wish to depend on the target of Chung, about her standard of acting and her attitude. In addition, Chung was supported by
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, Liza Wang and Gloria Tang to earn "Best Actress" in TVB Anniversary Ceremony. Chung won Mainland China's Favourite TVB Actress as the result was 100% totally vote by mainland netizens in TVB Anniversary Ceremony. She got the fourth time to be the Non-official Best Actress in 2015 due to the online voting for "Best Actress" in oncc. In 2016, Chung starred in the drama ''
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'' alongside
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, and made a brief appearance in the sequel of her 2013 series '' Brother's Keeper'', ''
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''. Several juniors mentioned Chung acts well and is a good role model in TV and entertainment industry, such as Gloria Tang Pui Yee,
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, Adrien Yau,
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, Carlos Chan, Kayan Yau, and Malaysian Singer Melody Tan. In 2018, she made a guest appearance in '' Another Era'', starring opposite
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, Lam said Chung became mature than
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12 years before. On 7 March 2018, her pregnancy wasn't the only thing that Chung announced on social media recently, as she also revealed that she would no longer be a part of TVB. She shared the news in the same post that was published last weekend, stated that she has decided to leave TVB after 13 years with the company. She wrote, "I remember being only 19 when I joined Miss Chinese International and not understanding anything, no self-confidence, and was very shy. TVB was my shelter. They taught me many things and gave me the opportunity to grow and develop myself, help me discover who I am, my talent, and my mission. They gave me the courage to show my true self to the public." Linda also mentioned several names that she is in gratitude for, including TVB Executive Virginia Lok whom she described as a mother figure who protected her, and Catherine Tsang, who gave Linda her first break. She also thanked Voice Entertainment's Herman Ho, for helping her achieve her dream of becoming a singer, and TVB Executive Sandy Yue, who gave her the opportunity to gain more experience from doing variety shows."Finally, thank you very much for all the other executives of TVB's top management. Without your hard work and support, I will not be at where I am today. I am forever grateful! We may be saying goodbye now, but I do feel like we are going to meet again soon," she added.


2019-Present: Open-ended

In 2020, Chung returned to TVB and filmed the medical drama Kids' Lives Matter. The drama was broadcast in 2021.
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stated Chung was a hardworking girl when they starred in ''Forensic Heroes'', they had a lot more chemistry after these years. Again, she received attention and was highly praised by netizens for her performance, for which she became the strongest contender for the ''Best Actress'' award. With her role in this drama, she won the Best TVB Actress in Malaysia award, and is placed among the top 5 nominees for both the Best Actress and Most Popular Female Character. Many netizens, including
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and
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, complained the final result in ''TVB anniversary award 2021'', especially mentioned Best Actress should return to Chung. She also nominates Best Actress in non-official TV awards and as the champion for long, but she became the first runner-up by 24.92% and 14,576 votes at the last minute. The year caused Chung the fifth time to be the Non-official Best Actress. In 2022, Chung mentioned she won't return to TVB in the future on the stage of ''TVB anniversary award 2021'', she also added her feelings in
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channel. However, Chung mentioned she loves
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newcomers
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consecutively in public instead of
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newcomers, especially Anson Lo and
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. She also stated she may accept any offers in future years at public event, including ViuTV.


Film career


2007: Newcomer

When Chung filmed her first film, ''
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'', alongside Alex Fong, Stephy Tang and
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in 2007, she was praised by its director
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. She was nominated for "Best New Performer" for her role Ching Ching and won the Silver Award. Chung has already succeeded in entering the films industry, the same year as
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2008–2010: Leading

Chung first became the leading actress in the film ''Playboy Cops'' in 2008. She received praises in the last scenes. She acted as a guest star in the similar movie of ''
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'', '' L for Love, L for Lies'', where she also got praise from the performance. Her latest film in 2010 is '' 72 Tenants of Prosperity''. Chung received praise from
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for her hard work and purity, and also especially receive praises from
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"Best Actress"
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for her effort, positive personality, hard work and improvement in this movie. As Chung charmingly interprets in
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series,
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commended Chung calling her the best young actress who come from TV station and one of the best actress in Hong Kong.


Music career


2008–2009: First attempt at success

In addition to acting, Chung used to receive praise in some live show for her singing. Chung has sung the theme songs for some of the series that she has starred in then, including her first personal song "Swear" for
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, Best Bet, A Journey Called Life,
A Watchdog's Tale ''A Watchdog's Tale'' (Traditional Chinese: 老友狗狗, literally ''Friends of Dogs''), is a 2010 TVB modern drama series. It stars Linda Chung and Steven Ma as the main leads, with Kent Cheng, Natalie Tong, Raymond Wong and Maggie Shiu as t ...
and the subtheme for Heart of Greed. Chung has also sung the children's songs, which were welcomed by children. In May 2008, Chung signed a deal with Star Entertainment which launched her into a successful music career. Her first album was released on 20 August. Her album " Dinner for One, World for Two" achieved Gold Status in Hong Kong based on the number of sales and she earned the title of "The Best Selling Female Bewcomer" in the year. This album garnered her several awards at the end of 2008, including "Gold Newcomer Awards" and "Most liked Female Newcomer." Her first plugged song was "World for Two." Her second plugged song "I'm actually unhappy" got a high click rating in YouTube. Due to its success, Star Entertainment released a second version of her album, ''Dinner for One, World for Two Reloaded'', which included more songs and more bonus material. Her second album, '' My Love Story'', was released on 12 November 2009 and has since been classified gold. The songs of "Thinking of you day and night", "One Day" and "Life and Death for Love" were all owe to her works on melody. Among these three songs, "Thinking of you day and night" was the first plugged song and was much more conspicuous. Chung won awards in different music platforms based on this song. "Fighting in the light and shadows" was the second plugged song. She has since collaborated with another Star Entertainment singer, Stephanie Cheng. "Ngoi Dak Hei (Ai De Qi)" is the product of their co-operation. This song reached the champion on TVB's JSG Solid Gold programme.


2010–2011: Approved works

Her new song "If You Want Me" has just released in January 2011. Chung was praised by CR2 DJ Vani Wong, Alton Yu and
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for her outstanding performance. Apart from the above, she received much praises from three DJ who are in the CR2 "The Playtoy Mansion" program and she was also praised by
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and Siu Yi in the CR2 "Good Morning King" program in February, for her "Jade Girl" image which is not only an image in the entertainment industry, but she also behaves in reality. In 2011, her third album, '' My Private Selection'', was released on 25 March. The album was qualitatively new songs plus choiceness. It was not only recorded her first plugged song "If you want me", but it also recorded another four new recording songs "Luo Suo", "De Xian Zhao Ni", "I'll Be Waiting For You", "Ngoi Dak Hei (Ai De Qi) solo version" and her thirteen choiceness songs from '' Dinner for One, World for Two'' debut album and ''My Love Story''.


2012–present: Stepped to B-grade singer

In 2012, Chung released her 4th studio album ''Love Love Love''. This album has been certified Gold and sold out quickly. The album reached the #1 in sales chart and entered the sales chart of the LP Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong for more than 5 weeks, gaining #2 for 2 weeks. Her first plug ''Vaccine'' reached #1 of JSG chart and her second plug ''You are my other half'' reached #1 of 3 musical chart, including
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, MRHNA and JSG. She is the first and only
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Canadian pop singer who got three No. 1 in the four major musical charts in the nearest 12 years. Stars Shine, Chung's music company, compiled and released a second edition of the album, removing one song and including the theme song of her currently airing series '' Missing You''. Chung gained her first "Female Singer Award" in MRHNA Musical Ceremony 2012, which continued gained the same award in 2013.


First solo concert

In August 2013, Chung held her first solo concert dated 22 and 23 August. It was held at Kowloon Bay Trade & Exhibition Centre. Her concert gained a full house. During the concert she received massive warmth and support from her fans. She invited 3 guests such as Janice M. Vidal, newcomer Ally Tse, and especially top female singer
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. When Kelly Chen sang with Chung, it gained a climax of the whole concert. When Chung sang "Friendship is just that simple" and played with her piano, the concert was going to another climax. In December 2014, Chung held "Most Blessing" Live Concert in Malaysia 2014 on 20 December at Arena of Stars. She invited Kristal Tin and Alex Fong as guest performers. The concert achieved a great success.


Personal life

In 2014, Chung was invited to speak at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She spoke about her battle with depression after joining the entertainment industry. At the start of her career, Linda faced severe pressure from a heavy workload and suffered loneliness from being far away from home. She said: "I didn’t know anything so I had a lot of pressure. I was also afraid to talk to someone about it, especially those close to me. During that time, I would cry as soon as I returned home." She eventually worked through the hard times and gained her emotional strength. As part of TVB, Chung was "the youngest A-grade actress, and the highest paid TVB actress, earning around HK$120,000 per event, until 2015. Chung is also a devoted Christian and
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is her ex-boyfriend. Chung married
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Jeremy Leung in fall 2015. Despite the age gap, Chung stated that their relationship developed due to similar interests and understanding of one another. When paparazzi asked Chung's parents if they approve of their son in law, Chung's parents responded confidently with an approval. Chung announced her pregnancy on Mother's Day 2016. She revealed on 27 August 2016 that she had given birth to a daughter named Kelly Leung. She announced the birth of her second child, Jared Leung, on 6 September 2018. On 10 April 2022, Chung announced on Instagram that she was pregnant with the couple’s third child.


Filmography


Television dramas


TVB Sales Presentation

*The following series only appeared in TVB Sales Presentation or Chung not starred in final piece


Films


Dubbing


Variety shows


Music Video


Discography


Albums


Studio albums


Compilation albums


Split albums


Singles


Charted singles


TV & animated singles


Compositions


Covers


Commercial Singles


Tours

*Linda Chung Love Love Love Concert 2013 in Hong Kong *Linda Chung Love Concert 2014 in Malaysia


Books

*Photo-book - happiness (幸·福) in 2013


Commercial Adverts


TVB Official Adverts


Awards


Major music awards statistics


2021

*TVB Anniversary Awards 2021 - Favourite TVB Actress in Malaysia (Kid's Lives Matter)


2015

*Starhub TVB Awards 2015 – My Favourite TVB Female TV Character ( Tiger Cubs II) *Starhub TVB Awards 2015 – Bottomslim The Perfect Figure Award


2014

*Starhub TVB Awards 2014 – My Favourite TVB Female TV Character ( All That Is Bitter Is Sweet) *Starhub TVB Awards 2014 – Red Carpet Star


2013

*Astro TVB Star Awards 2013 – My Favourite TVB Actress in a Leading Role ( Brother's Keeper) *Starhub TVB Awards 2013 – My Favourite TVB Female TV Character ( Witness Insecurity) *Starhub TVB Awards 2013 – Everlasting Glow Award *Starhub TVB Awards 2013 – Red Carpet Star


2012

*My AOD Favourite Award – Top 15 Character Ranked No. 3 * Starhub TVB Award 2012 – Perfect Smile Award. * Starhub TVB Award 2012 – My Favorite TVB Onscreen Couple ( Yes Sir, Sorry Sir) * Starhub TVB Award 2012 – My Favorite TVB Female Character ( L'Escargot) * Vietnam DMA Presentation Ceremony 2011 – Most Popular Female Actress (Hong Kong) *
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Awards 2012 – Ranked No. 5 Song Award *
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Awards 2012 – Toshiba Award


2011

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Anniversary Awards 2011 – My Most Supportive Performance ( Yes Sir, Sorry Sir) *
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Malaysia My Favourite TVB Series Presentation 2011 – Top 10 My Favourite Character *
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Awards 2011 – Ranked No. 6 Song Award * JSG First Round Music Awards 2011 – Song Award (If You Want Me) * JSG Music Awards 2010 – Best Duet – Bronze (with Stephanie Cheng)


2010

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My AOD My or MY may refer to: Arts and entertainment * My (radio station), a Malaysian radio station * Little My, a fictional character in the Moomins universe * ''My'' (album), by Edyta Górniak * ''My'' (EP), by Cho Mi-yeon Business * Market ...
Malaysia My Favourite TVB Series Presentation 2010 – My Favourite Character * JSG First Round Music Awards 2010 – Best Duet Song Award (with Stephanie Cheng) * JSG First Round Music Awards 2010 – Song Award *
Next TV Era Television () is a nationwide cable TV network in Taiwan that is operated by ERA Communications Inc., established in October 1996. Era TV Channels Era TV currently operates three commercial cable television channels: *Era News () *Much TV ( ...
Awards 2010 – Polo Santa Roberta Award *
Next TV Era Television () is a nationwide cable TV network in Taiwan that is operated by ERA Communications Inc., established in October 1996. Era TV Channels Era TV currently operates three commercial cable television channels: *Era News () *Much TV ( ...
Awards 2010 – Ranked No. 6 Song Award * () Award Ceremony – Most Improved Singer Award *
Sina Sina may refer to: Relating to China * Chin (China), or Sina (), old Chinese form of the Sanskrit name Cina () ** Shina (word), or Sina ( ja, 支那, links=no), archaic Japanese word for China ** Sinae, Latin name for China Places * Sina, Al ...
Music Awards – Top 20 Song (Missing You Day & Night) * JSG Music Awards 2009 – Best Duet Bronze Award (with Phillip Wei) * JSG Music Awards 2009 – Best Performance Award – Bronze Song Award


2009

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Metro Radio Metro Radio is an Independent Local Radio station based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Hits Radio network. It broadcasts to County Durham, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear. As of September 2022, the ...
Hits 2009 Awards – Best Metro Radio Hits Best Second Year Singer (Female) *
Metro Radio Metro Radio is an Independent Local Radio station based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Hits Radio network. It broadcasts to County Durham, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear. As of September 2022, the ...
Hits 2009 Awards – Best Karaoke Song (Missing You Day & Night) * JSG third round Music Awards – song award (Missing you day and night) * Yes! Idol Award Presentation 2009 – Karaoke Female Idol * Yes! Idol Award Presentation 2009 – 2009 Yes Idol *
Next TV Era Television () is a nationwide cable TV network in Taiwan that is operated by ERA Communications Inc., established in October 1996. Era TV Channels Era TV currently operates three commercial cable television channels: *Era News () *Much TV ( ...
Awards 2009 – Ranked No. 6 Song Award *
IFPI The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. It is a non-profit members' organisation registered in Switzerland and founded in Italy in 1 ...
Hong Kong CD Sales Presentation 2008 – Most Sales Hong Kong Female newcomer * Astro Awards 2008 – My Favorite Character 2008 – Sheung Joy Sum * Astro Awards 2008 – Favorite Onscreen Couple 2008 (with Raymond Lam) *
RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Awards () is one of the main C-pop music award in Hong Kong. The award is sponsored by RTHK. Beginning in 1978, it is the oldest major award in Hong Kong, even earlier than the Jade Solid Gold Top 10 Awards. The cer ...
– Best Female Newcomer Outstanding Award *
Sina Sina may refer to: Relating to China * Chin (China), or Sina (), old Chinese form of the Sanskrit name Cina () ** Shina (word), or Sina ( ja, 支那, links=no), archaic Japanese word for China ** Sinae, Latin name for China Places * Sina, Al ...
Music Awards 2008 – My Favourite Female Newcomer 2008 – Gold * () Award Ceremony 2008 – Newcomer Awards 2008 * JSG Music Awards 2008 – Best Female Newcomer 2008 – Silver


2008

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Metro Radio Metro Radio is an Independent Local Radio station based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Hits Radio network. It broadcasts to County Durham, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear. As of September 2022, the ...
Hits Music Award Presentation 2008 – Metro Radio Hits King of New Singers Award 2008 – (Female) Linda Chung * Yes! Idol Award Presentation 2008 – Most Rise TV Idol * Yes! Idol Award Presentation 2008 – King of New Singers Award 2008 – (Female) * JSG Third Round Music Awards 2008 – Song Award *
Metro Radio Metro Radio is an Independent Local Radio station based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Hits Radio network. It broadcasts to County Durham, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear. As of September 2022, the ...
Newcomer Presentation 2008 – Best Live Female Performer 2008 *
TVB8 TVB8 was a Mandarin language Mandarin (; ) is a group of Chinese (Sinitic) dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of the phonology of Standard C ...
Music Awards 2008 – Best Newcomer Silver Award 2008 *
Yahoo! Buzz Yahoo! Buzz was a community-based news article website, heavily derived from Digg, that combined the features of social bookmarking and syndication through a user interface that allowed editorial control. Users could publish their own news stories ...
Awards 2008 – Most Rise in Searches Newcomer Artist 2008 *
Metro Radio Metro Radio is an Independent Local Radio station based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Hits Radio network. It broadcasts to County Durham, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear. As of September 2022, the ...
Children's Song Presentation 2008 – Song of the Year *
Metro Radio Metro Radio is an Independent Local Radio station based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Hits Radio network. It broadcasts to County Durham, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear. As of September 2022, the ...
Children' Song Presentation 2008 – Top 10 Song *
TVB Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) is a television broadcasting company based in Hong Kong SAR. The Company operates five free-to-air terrestrial television channels in Hong Kong, with TVB Jade as its main Cantonese language service, and ...
Children's Song Presentation 2008 – Golden Song Award *
TVB Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) is a television broadcasting company based in Hong Kong SAR. The Company operates five free-to-air terrestrial television channels in Hong Kong, with TVB Jade as its main Cantonese language service, and ...
Children's Song Presentation 2008 – Top 10 Song * Hong Kong Film Directors' Society – Silver Song Award *
27th Hong Kong Film Awards Ceremony for the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards was held on 14 April 2008 in the Hong Kong Cultural Centre and hosted by Carol Cheng, Sandra Ng and Sammi Cheng. Winners in nineteen categories were unveiled, with film ''The Warlords'' being the year's ...
– Nomination of Best New Performer *
Next TV Era Television () is a nationwide cable TV network in Taiwan that is operated by ERA Communications Inc., established in October 1996. Era TV Channels Era TV currently operates three commercial cable television channels: *Era News () *Much TV ( ...
Awards 2008 – Ranked No. 9 Song Award


2007

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Metro Radio Metro Radio is an Independent Local Radio station based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Hits Radio network. It broadcasts to County Durham, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear. As of September 2022, the ...
Children's Song Presentation 2007 – Top 10 Song *
TVB Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) is a television broadcasting company based in Hong Kong SAR. The Company operates five free-to-air terrestrial television channels in Hong Kong, with TVB Jade as its main Cantonese language service, and ...
Children's Song Presentation 2007 – Top 10 Song *
Next TV Era Television () is a nationwide cable TV network in Taiwan that is operated by ERA Communications Inc., established in October 1996. Era TV Channels Era TV currently operates three commercial cable television channels: *Era News () *Much TV ( ...
Awards 2007 – Healthiest Star *
Yahoo! Buzz Yahoo! Buzz was a community-based news article website, heavily derived from Digg, that combined the features of social bookmarking and syndication through a user interface that allowed editorial control. Users could publish their own news stories ...
Awards 2007 – Most Rise in Searches TV Artist 2007 *
Next TV Era Television () is a nationwide cable TV network in Taiwan that is operated by ERA Communications Inc., established in October 1996. Era TV Channels Era TV currently operates three commercial cable television channels: *Era News () *Much TV ( ...
Awards 2007 – mYoga Female Artist Award


2006

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TVB Anniversary Awards The TVB Anniversary Awards (), officially known as the TVB Awards Presentation, is an annual awards ceremony honoring TVB's programming achievements in Hong Kong television; despite claims that it is the region's equivalent to the American E ...
2006 – Most Improved Female Actress Award 2006 *
Next TV Era Television () is a nationwide cable TV network in Taiwan that is operated by ERA Communications Inc., established in October 1996. Era TV Channels Era TV currently operates three commercial cable television channels: *Era News () *Much TV ( ...
Awards 2006 – Yumei Award


2005

* Magazine of Week 8 – Most Perfect Smile


2004

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Miss Chinese International Miss Chinese International Pageant (, formerly 國際華裔小姐競選), or MCI () for short, is an annual international beauty pageant, organized and broadcast by TVB, a network television station in Hong Kong. It was established in 1988 and t ...
2004 – Champion


2003

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Miss Chinese Vancouver Miss Chinese Vancouver Pageant (Chinese: 溫哥華華裔小姐競選), also known as MCV and formerly branded as Miss Chinese (Vancouver) Pageant, is an annual beauty pageant organized by Fairchild TV that selects Vancouver's representative for ...
2003 – Champion * Miss Chinese Vancouver 2003 – Miss Photogenic * Miss Chinese Vancouver 2003 – Miss Talent * Miss Chinese Vancouver 2003 – Miss Snow Beauty


2002

* Miss Crystal Cover Girl 2002 – Champion * Miss Crystal Cover Girl 2002 – Best Swimsuit Performance


References


External links


Linda Chung Official WebsiteLinda Chung
on Weibo
Official TVB Blog of Linda Chung
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