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