Linda Chung Ka-yan (born on 9 April 1984) is a Hong Kong-Canadian actress, singer and songwriter.
2002
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 Burnaby, British Columbia.
2003
In 2003, Chung won the title of Miss Chinese Vancouver, 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, hosted in Hong Kong.
She was praised by Kelly Chen 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.
After winning the Miss Chinese International Pageant, Chung was signed under TVB.
Chung made her acting debut in the series Virtues of Harmony II, the modern spin-off of the sitcom, Virtues of Harmony.
Her performance was somewhat popular in the year, garnering positive reviews from the public.
2004
She signed a long-term contract with TVB in 2004 after winning the Miss Chinese International.
She was nominated for the Most Improved Female Actress award at the 2004's TVB Anniversary Awards for the first time.
Chung also participated in several advertisements and music videos within her first year in the industry.
This initial success led TVB to name her as one of the "Twelve New Stars."
Other industry professionals also gave praise to Chung during this initial period such as Nancy Sit, Frankie Lam, Kara Hui, Shawn Yue, Chen Kun, Kent Cheng, Sammy Leung, Wong He, Joey Leung and Erica Yuen.
2006
In 2006, after starring in Always Ready, The Biter Bitten and Forensic Heroes, Chung won her first major award "Most Improved Female Actress.
2007
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 Virtues of Harmony II.
2008
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 YouTube KOL.
Chung was born in Maple Ridge and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia with an older brother and sister.
After graduation from Vancouver's Templeton Secondary School, Chung studied education at the University of British Columbia for two years.
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 Sheren Tang 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 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 TVB series to-date.
Chung also received praises from Ha Yu, Michelle Yim and Lee Heung-kam when she was acting this role.
2009
In 2009, Chung performed in Ghost Writer, A Watchdog's Tale, Twilight Investigation, as well as Can't Buy Me Love.
At the 42nd TVB Anniversary Awards (2009), Chung was nominated top 5 in the Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Gem of Life and this role received praise from Ada Choi, Lee San San and Maggie Shiu.
2010
In 2010, Chung had four series, A Watchdog's Tale 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 A Watchdog's Tale, 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 Can't Buy Me Love.
Twilight Investigation was another series in the year, her acting has got approbated yet.
While Chung was filming the ancient costume drama "River of Wine" in December 2010, she received praise from Bowie Lam 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 Myolie Wu, Kate Tsui and Fala Chen as the first-class performance of Chung in several series before the day.
