Linda Lee Cadwell is an American teacher. Linda Lee Cadwell is the widow of martial arts master and actor Bruce Lee. She met Bruce while she was attending Garfield High School, where Bruce came to give a Kung Fu demonstration. Eventually, she became one of his Kung Fu students.
Linda Cadwell continued to take Kung Fu lessons from him while attending college. They married on August 17, 1964. They had two children together, Brandon and Shannon. Her son, died in a fatal shooting accident on a movie set while filming The Crow on March 31, 1993.
Linda Cadwell has continued to promote Bruce’s martial art Jeet Kune Do. Cadwell retired in 2001, and her daughter Shannon, together with son-in-law Ian Keasler, run the Bruce Lee Foundation.