Linda Lee Cadwell
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Linda Claire Emery Lee Cadwell (née Emery; born March 21, 1945)[1] is a retired American teacher and writer, the widow of martial artist and actor Bruce Lee (1940Template:Ndash1973), and the mother of actor Brandon Lee (1965Template:Ndash1993) and actress Shannon Lee (born 1969).[2] She is the author of the Bruce Lee biography Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew, upon which the film Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993) is based, as well as the founder, a former trustee of, and an unpaid advisor of the Bruce Lee Foundation.
Life and career
She was born and raised in Everett, Washington,[3] the daughter of Vivian R. (née Hester; 1911–1998)[4] and Everett Emery (1910–1950).[5][6] Her family was Baptist and of Swedish, Irish, and English descent.[7][8]
She met Bruce Lee while she was attending Garfield High School, where Bruce came to give a kung fu demonstration; he was attending the University of Washington at the time. Eventually, she became one of his kung fu students when she was attending the University of Washington, studying to become a doctor.[9]
They married on August 17, 1964. Linda was a few credits short from graduation. They had two children, Brandon Lee and Shannon Lee. Bruce Lee died suddenly on July 20, 1973, of an allergic reaction to an analgesic.[10][11]
Linda married Tom Bleecker in 1988, and they divorced in 1990.
On March 31, 1993, her son Brandon was accidentally shot to death by a prop gun while filming The Crow.[12]
Books
Cadwell wrote the 1975 book Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew (Template:ISBN), on which the 1993 feature film Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story was based. She was portrayed by actress Lauren Holly in the film adaptation.[13] She also wrote the 1989 book The Bruce Lee Story (Template:ISBN).
References
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External links
- Bruce Lee Foundation website
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- 1945 births
- Living people
- American biographers
- American women biographers
- American people of English descent
- American people of Swedish descent
- Garfield High School (Seattle) alumni
- 20th-century American women writers
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- People from Everett, Washington
- Writers from Washington (state)
- American people of Irish descent
- University of Washington College of Education alumni
- Family of Bruce Lee