Linda Lee Cadwell
Linda Claire Emery Lee Cadwell is a retired American teacher and writer, the widow of martial artist and actor Bruce Lee, and the mother of actor Brandon Lee and actress Shannon Lee. 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] 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, the daughter of Vivian R. and Everett Emery. Her family was Baptist and of Swedish, Irish, and English descent.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.
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.
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.