Michelle Yeoh

Yeoh Choo Kheng PSM SPMP Chinese 楊紫瓊 born 6 August 1962 known professionally as Michelle Yeoh joʊ is a Malaysian actress In a career spanning over four decades Yeoh has appeared in projects encompassing a wide array of genres and received various accolades including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award in addition to nominations for two British Academy Film Awards Credited as Michelle Khan in her early films she rose to fame in the 1980s and 1990s after starring in Hong Kong action and martial arts films where she performed her stunts These roles included Yes Madam 1985 Magnificent Warriors 1987 Police Story 3 Super Cop 1992 The Heroic Trio Tai Chi Master both 1993 and Wing Chun 1994 After moving to the United States Yeoh gained international recognition for starring in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies 1997 and in Ang Lees wuxia martial arts film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon 2000 the latter gained her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Her Hollywood career progressed with roles in Memoirs of a Geisha 2005 Sunshine 2007 and The Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 2008 She continued to appear in Hong Kong and Chinese cinema starring in True Legend 2010 Reign of Assassins 2010 Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Sword of Destiny 2016 and Master Z Ip Man Legacy 2018 In 2011 she portrayed Aung San Suu Kyi in the British biographical film The Lady Yeoh played supporting roles in the romantic comedies Crazy Rich Asians 2018 and Last Christmas 2019 as well as in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film ShangChi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 2021 and the television series Star Trek Discovery 20172020 Her voice acting work has included Kung Fu Panda 2 2011 Minions The Rise of Gru Paws of Fury The Legend of Hank both 2022 Transformers Rise of the Beasts 2023 and The Tigers Apprentice 2024 For her starring role as Evelyn Quan Wang in Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022 she won the Academy Award for Best Actress becoming the first Asian to win the category and the first Malaysian to win an Academy Award She has since featured in the mystery film A Haunting in Venice 2023 and the musical fantasy film Wicked 2024 The film review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes ranked her the greatest action heroine of all time in 2008 In 1997 she was chosen by People as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World and in 2009 the same magazine listed her as one of the 35 AllTime Screen Beauties In 2022 Time named her one of the worlds 100 most influential people on its annual listicle and its Icon of the Year In 2024 she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom Description above from the Wikipedia article Michelle Yeoh licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia