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Linda Wang (I) More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth
Queens, New York, USA

Birth Name
Linda Hsien Wang

Height
5' 7" (1.70 m)

Trivia

Modeled for Pantene Pro V Shampoo (World-Wide) [1994-1996]

Appeared on over 20 Book Covers for Scholastic children's Books.

Spokesperson for the national video "The National Captioning Institute for the Hearing Impairment." [1991-1992]

Miss teen Pola Asia 1991. [1991]

Attended New York University. NY, New York.

As a teen, she was chosen in the last group of 8 actors to studied with the late New York famed Acting coach Herbert Berghof (Co- founder with wife Actress Uta Hagen of the HB Studio, Greenwich Village, New York City). [1988-1990]

At age 16 she graduated from New York's prestigious art performing high school "The High School of Art and Design" in Manhattan. (New York City, New York).

Can read and write Chinese fluently.

At age 7, modeled for "Kodak Films."

Volunteered Member For The Yearly "Kids For Kids" New York City Pediatric AIDS foundation. [1997-2001]

Attended two years at The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, New York City, New York.

In 2006 her hands was selected as the brand new "Hand Model" for Mattel Toy's "Scrabble" Game World-Wide box cover.

She is a huge fan of Chinese mega star Brigitte Lin with whom she met on a film set as a little girl at her grandmother's backyard in the "Young Ming Mountains" in the city of Taipei in Taiwan.

She was the first Chinese American to appear on the guest float at The 56th Annual Compton city Christmas Parade in Los Angeles, CA.

In 2007 due to her extensive charity works at various cities in the past, she was selected as the first Chinese American to appear on the float at the 56th Annual Compton City Christmas Parade in Compton City, California.


Personal Quotes

"I don't feel comfortable with people who can't see beyond the tip of their nose." - E! Online

"I am a proud Chinese American that was 'Made in Taiwan.'" -- JADE Magazine interview (2001)

"I think once you're a New Yorker, no one can take that away from you." -- Queens Tribune Magazine interview.

"A man with a pulse!" - On what she look for in a man.

[On if she were given one wish in this world, what would that be:] "End racism. I think it would definitely resolve many problems around the world towards yesterday, today and tomorrow."


Where Are They Now

(January 2004) Resides in Los Angeles, CA.

(February 2005) Paris, France.

(June 2006) Los Angeles, California


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