Linda Lee Cadwell
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| Born | Linda Emery March 21, 1945 Everett, Washington, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) | Bruce Lee (1964-1973) Tom Bleecker (1988-1990) Bruce Cadwell (1991-) |
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Linda Lee Cadwell (born March 21, 1945), a.k.a. Linda Emery, is an American teacher and the widow of martial arts master and actor Bruce Lee, founder of Jeet Kune Do. She was born and raised in Seattle, Washington, U.S.. She is of Swedish and English descent.[1] [2]
Linda 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 as a pre-medical student.
She continued to take Kung Fu lessons from him while attending college. They married on August 17, 1964; Linda was a few credits short of graduation from the University of Washington. They had two children together, Brandon Lee and Shannon Lee. Bruce Lee had opened his own Kung Fu school at the time and was teaching Jeet Kune Do. Bruce Lee suddenly died on July 20, 1973 of a cerebral edema.
Linda was remarried to Tom Bleecker in 1988, but they divorced in 1990. She married stockbroker Bruce Cadwell in 1991 and they live in Boise, Idaho. Bleecker published a tell-all book on his version of how Bruce Lee died in 1996. Linda Lee Cadwell attempted to stop its publication, but was unsuccessful.[citation needed]
Her son Brandon Lee, an actor like his father, died in a fatal shooting accident on a movie set while filming The Crow on March 31, 1993, nearly twenty years after his father's death. Linda and Brandon's fiancee, Eliza Hutton, were involved in an out of court settlement with the producers of The Crow in 1993, and were instrumental in having the film released in 1994.
Cadwell has continued to promote Bruce Lee's martial art Jeet Kune Do. She retired in 2001, and her daughter Shannon (who is now in charge of the Lee family estate), together with son-in-law Ian Keasler, run the Bruce Lee Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching Bruce Lee's martial arts style and his writing on philosophy.
[edit] Books
Linda wrote the 1975 book Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew (ISBN 0-446-89407-9), on which the 1993 feature film Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story was based. She was portrayed by actress Lauren Holly in the film adaptation.
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[edit] External links
- Official Web Site of the Lee Family
- Linda Lee Cadwell at the Internet Movie Database
- Brandon and Bruce Lee Forum
- Bruce Lee Web Website in Spanish about Bruce Lee family and Jeet Kune Do.
