Linda Wang

Linda Wang

Birth : , Queens, New York, USA

History

Linda Hsien Wang is an American actress. She traces her ancestry to Shanghai and Shandong, she was raised in Queens, New York. Also known as Linda Wang, Linda H. Wang and Wáng Xiànlíng (王憲苓). Linda Wang's Hollywood film career includes a heartbreaking role in Neal Hollander's controversial film Birds of Passage as "Fu Ling" opposite Stacy Keach. The film was banned in certain locations in China due to the One-Child Policy story line, and was instead filmed on location in the Philippines and South China sea. She also starred with actor Ernie Rivera in the Indie film Red Betta, directed by Allena Rennee. Additional notable appearances were in The Violent Kind, Scarred City, Dead Air, Dark City and What Ever Happened to Mason Reese? which was directed by Brett Ratner. Her off-screen film credit was in the 2008 comedy Tropic Thunder. Wang had previously worked as a Chinese script translator for the producer and writer David Milch on several episodes of his HBO hit television show Deadwood. She had openly expressed her regrets for not standing up for her rights for screen credit for her work on Deadwood to Milch. Linda Wang played an evil villain named Contessa Dell"Oro, a non-Asian role, as the leader of an army of commandos who plot to destroy all human life on earth with the devastating X-bomb Nuclear Missile in a dark comedy called Blonde Squad. Linda Wang was in the film Low Down, which won Best Cinematography Award in the US Dramatic category at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014. Low Down was also at the November 2015 Lineup of the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival. The prestigious award is considered the Chinese Oscar. Linda Wang recently was just in a feature film My Favorite Five with Steven Williams, Rochelle Aytes and Brian White directed by Paul Hannah currently on Netflix, CENTRICTV and BET. Recently, Linda Wang was in a film "Girls on Film" in collaboration with as Kodak. Shot on Kodak 35mm and 16mm motion picture film and the new KODAK Super 8 Camera, stars Suki Waterhouse, Poppy Jamie, Linda Wang and Anya Varda which was filmed in Los Angeles, CA. Suki Waterhouse, Poppy Jamie, Linda Wang, Anya Varda all used their first name in the film.

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Linda Wang
Linda Wang

Movies

Bliss
Bliss
Streetwalker #4
A mind-bending love story following Greg who, after recently being divorced and then fired, meets the mysterious Isabel, a woman living on the streets and convinced that the polluted, broken world around them is just a computer simulation. Doubtful at first, Greg eventually discovers there may be some truth to Isabel’s wild conspiracy.
Danny Collins
Danny Collins
Asian Fan #2 (uncredited)
An ageing hard-living 1970s rock star decides to change his life when he discovers a 40-year-old undelivered letter written to him by John Lennon.
My Favorite Five
My Favorite Five
Chinese Interpreter
Hailey is a conceited, professional woman and self-proclaimed serial dater with no interest in marriage. She believes no one man can possess all five of her most coveted qualities. Through her job, she encounters Christopher, a handsome businessman who has sworn off women. Can he crack through her personal code?
Blonde Squad
Blonde Squad
Contessa Dell'Oro
They're beautiful, they're brilliant, and they can kick your butt. Jill Masters is the toughest one that will take no prisoners. Brandi Nash is the hot, sexy, and the lethal one that uses her beauty to get what she wants. Sabrina Steele is the smartest brilliant leader of Blonde Squad. Last but not least is Jane Bond, the classy bad to the bone rookie who is hard-as-nails. They work for a man named Colonel Thorpe the head of D.I.C.E. from Langley Washington DC. The Blonde Squad are sent into action when the devious mastermind Contessa Dell"Oro, the evil leader of the Frogmen plot to destroy the world in 48 hours with her new X-bomb Nuclear Missile if the world leaders do not reach her demands on time. She will wipe out each country with everything in it every hour.
Serenity
Serenity
Chinese Snake Dancer (uncredited)
When the renegade crew of Serenity agrees to hide a fugitive on their ship, they find themselves in an action-packed battle between the relentless military might of a totalitarian regime who will destroy anything – or anyone – to get the girl back and the bloodthirsty creatures who roam the uncharted areas of space. But... the greatest danger of all may be on their ship.
Birds of Passage
Birds of Passage
Fu
A quest for freedom in the South China Sea. Victims of China’s “One-Child” policy, 100 orphans, all girls, are shepherded by a determined activist, Mrs. Brown (Charlotte De Turckheim) onto a tramp freighter for a harrowing escape from the Chinese authorities.
Dead Air
Dead Air
Cindy
A distraught disc jockey seeks out a mystery caller who may be the killer of his girlfriend.
The Last Aristocrats
The Last Aristocrats
Waitress
In 1948, four young girls, daughters of Shanghai's elite, attending college in America find themselves unable to return after the Communists take Shanghai.