Linda Chung Ka-yan (Chinese: 鍾嘉欣; pinyin: Zhōng Jiāxīn; born on 9 April 1984) is a Hong Kong-Canadian actress, singer and songwriter.

[2][3] After graduation from Vancouver's Templeton Secondary School, Chung studied education at the University of British Columbia for two years.

[20] In 2006, after starring in Always Ready, The Biter Bitten and Forensic Heroes, Chung won her first major award "Most Improved Female Actress.

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.

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.

In 2009, Chung performed in Ghost Writer, A Watchdog's Tale, Twilight Investigation, as well as Can't Buy Me Love.

[43][44][45][46][47] 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.

Although she only had unrequited love for one of the male lead in the series (Moses Chan), she became the focus for the audience and internet users by the three sections of Miss Koo.

Next, Miss Koo seems to be a melting glacier as she was affected by Law Sir (Moses Chan's character), this made the audience pay enthusiastic attention on their sweet and emotional scenes.

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.

[64] On 19 March 2012, her new series Daddy Good Deeds aired and her character Ko Yu-chu spread fun to the public.

Her third series House of Harmony and Vengeance was aired on TVB from 30 Apr to 8 June 2012, portraying her as an ancient version of Ms.

Bobby said Chung was only alike a little girl in their first starring "Forensic Heroes", however, she is completely changed and honed during these years, either acting or in life.

Not only Chung's acting was praised by public, but she and her co-star Bosco Wong were gaining high popularity to be the new screen couple.

She was praised by Paul Chun, co-star Bosco Wong and film director Patrick Kong[69] Chung was again owning great support from public will by Witness Insecurity this year.

[70][71] Jason Chan, Michael Dao,[72] Charmaine Li support Chung to gain an "Best Actress" Award for the year.

In May, Chung participated in the variety show "Office of Practical Jokes", which presided by Johnson Lee, 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.

[76] Not only presided Lee, but many professionals also praised her acting in the plot, such that Gem Tang, Patrick Kong,[77] Sharon Chan,[78] Kitty Yuen,[79] Bob Lam, Ding Tze Ko,[80] Yoyo Mung,[81] Albert Au,[82] 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 gained support by co-star Ruco Chan,[83] Joe Ma,[84] Fala Chen,[85] Joey Man,[86] Tavia Yeung,[87] Niki Chow, Kate Tsui, Myolie Wu, and so on, to get the "Best Actress" that year.

Chung's only series for 2015 is Limelight Years, co-starred with Damian Lau, Liza Wang, Alex Fong among others, while she was busy with work in the music industry.

In addition, Chung was supported by Wayne Lai,[95] Liza Wang and Gloria Tang to earn "Best Actress" in TVB Anniversary Ceremony.

Several juniors mentioned Chung acts well and is a good role model in TV and entertainment industry, such as Gloria Tang Pui Yee,[98] Hana Kuk,[99] Adrien Yau,[100]Jackson Wang,[101] Carlos Chan,[102] Kayan Yau,[103] and Malaysian Singer Melody Tan.

[105] 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 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.

Florence Kwok stated Chung was a hardworking girl when they starred in Forensic Heroes, they had a lot more chemistry after these years.

Many netizens, including Hong Kong, Malaysia and Mainland,[107] complained the final result in TVB anniversary award 2021, especially mentioned Best Actress should return to Chung.

[127][128] 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.

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.

She invited 3 guests such as Janice M. Vidal, newcomer Ally Tse, and especially top female singer Kelly Chen.