Michelle Yeoh

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Birth Name: Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng

Age: 61, born 6 August 1962

Country of origin: Malaysia

Currently Residing In: Switzerland

Height: 5' 3"

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Jean Todt

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Description: Academy Award Winner Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng (/ˈjoʊ/ YOH) is a Malaysian actress. Credited as Michelle Khan in her early films, she rose to fame in the 1990s after starring in a series of Hong Kong action films where she performed her own stunts, such as Yes, Madam (1985), Police Story 3: Supercop (1992), and Holy Weapon (1993). She gained international recognition for her roles in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in Ang Lee's martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). The latter role earned her a BAFTA Best Actress nomination. After a career resurgence with a multi-year recurring r Academy Award Winner Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng (/ˈjoʊ/ YOH) is a Malaysian actress.

Credited as Michelle Khan in her early films, she rose to fame in the 1990s after starring in a series of Hong Kong action films where she performed her own stunts, such as Yes, Madam (1985), Police Story 3: Supercop (1992), and Holy Weapon (1993).

She gained international recognition for her roles in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in Ang Lee's martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). The latter role earned her a BAFTA Best Actress nomination.

After a career resurgence with a multi-year recurring role on Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2020), she received widespread praise for her performance as an overwhelmed woman navigating the multiverse in the 2022 science fiction film Everything Everywhere All at Once, winning the Golden Globe Award and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, and becoming the first Malaysian to receive an Academy Award nomination in any category with her nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Yeoh's other works include Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008), Reign of Assassins (2010), Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011), and The Lady (2011), where she portrayed Aung San Suu Kyi.

She played supporting roles in the romantic comedies Crazy Rich Asians (2018) and Last Christmas (2019), and the MCU film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021).

On television, Yeoh recently starred in the fantasy miniseries The Witcher: Blood Origin (2022).

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. ... (more)

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" Yu Shu Lien - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon "Whatever path you decide to take in this life... be true to yourself.""

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Michelle Yeoh - Best Actress in 'Everything Everywhere' - Full Oscar Backstage Pressroom Speech

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" 2023 - NOMINEE Best Actress in a Leading Role MICHELLE YEOH as Evelyn Wang in EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE 2022 | dir: Daniel Scheinert, Dan Kwan "