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Michelle Yeoh
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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 (…
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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 Lee's 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 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) and the television series Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2020). 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 Tiger's 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 All-Time Screen Beauties". In 2022, Time named her one of the world's 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 CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Michelle Yeoh's Filmography
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Avatar 5
as Dr. Karina Mogue
Avatar 4
as Dr. Karina Mogue
The Surgeon
as Dr. Eliza Lin
It's My Time
as Zhao Yanhong
Sandiwara
as The Critic / The Hawker / The Waitress / The Vlogger / The Singer
Making Wicked: For Good
as Self
Wicked: For Good
as Madame Morrible
Wicked: For Good - A Sneak Peek
as Self
Wicked: One Wonderful Night
as Self
Inside the Worlds of Epic Universe
as Self
Star Trek: Section 31
as Philippa Georgiou
Making Wicked
as Self
Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked
as Self
Wicked
as Madame Morrible
The Bridge
as Self
The Tiger's Apprentice
as Loo (voice)
A Haunting in Venice
as Joyce Reynolds
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
as Airazor (voice)
Guy, à la poursuite de la 4e étoile
as Self
The New Face of Hollywood – A Soul of a Nation Presentation
as Self
Making The Witcher: Blood Origin
Jean Todt: The Method
as Self
The School for Good and Evil
as Professor Anemone
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
as Yuki (voice)
Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Everything Everywhere All at Once
as Self
Minions: The Rise of Gru
as Master Chow (voice)
Everything Everywhere All at Once
as Evelyn Wang
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
as Ying Nan
Gunpowder Milkshake
as Florence
Boss Level
as Dai Feng
Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times
as Self
The Hidden Kingdoms of China
as Narrator (voice)
Last Christmas
as Santa
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
as Self (archive footage)
Master Z: Ip Man Legacy
as Tso Ngan Kwan
Crazy Rich Asians
as Eleanor Young
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
as Aleta Ogord
Morgan
as Dr. Lui Cheng
Mechanic: Resurrection
as Mei
Dragon Girls!
as Herself
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny
as Yu Shu Lien
Marco Polo: One Hundred Eyes
as Lotus
Final Recipe
as Julia
The Lady
as Aung San Suu Kyi
Fucking Kassovitz
as Self
Kung Fu Panda 2
as Soothsayer (voice)
Reign of Assassins
as Zeng Jing
Rose, c'est Paris
as self
True Legend
as Dr. Yu
Among the Great Apes with Michelle Yeoh
as Self / Narrator
Far North
as Saiva
Babylon A.D.
as Sister Rebeka
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
as Zi Yuan
The Children of Huang Shi
as Mrs. Wang
No Poster
Purple Mountain
Sunshine
as Corazon
Fearless
as Miss Yang
Memoirs of a Geisha
as Mameha
Silver Hawk
as Lulu Wong
Hong Kong Stories
as Self
Bond Girls Are Forever
as Herself
The Touch
as Pak Yin Fay
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
as Yu Sau Lien (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) (archive footage)
Grit & Polish: Heroines from Hong Kong
as Self
No Poster
A Conversation with Michelle Yeoh
as Self
The Making of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'
as Self
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
as Yu Shu Lien
Moonlight Express
as Michelle
Jackie Chan: My Story
as Self - 008
Highly Classified: The World of 007
as Self
Tomorrow Never Dies
as Wai Lin
The Secrets of 007
as Self
The Soong Sisters
as Soong Ai Ling / Madam Kung
The Stunt Woman
as Ah Kam
Shaolin Popey II: Messy Temple
as Ah King
Wonder Seven
as Ying
Wing Chun
as Yim Wing Chun
Tai-Chi Master
as Snow
Supercop 2
as Jessica Yang Jian Wa
Heroic Trio 2: Executioners
as Ching, Invisible Woman
Holy Weapon
as Mon Ching Sze / To Col Ching
The Heroic Trio
as Ching, The Invisible Woman
Butterfly and Sword
as Lady Ko
Police Story 3: Super Cop
as Captain Jessica Yang
Easy Money
as Michelle Yeung Ling
Magnificent Warriors
as Ming
Royal Warriors
as Michelle Yip
Yes, Madam!
as Senior Inspector Ng
Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars
as Judo Instructor
The Owl vs Bombo
as Ms. Yeung
The Legend of Nezha
as Yin Rong (Lady Yin)
No Poster