Michelle Yeoh
Acting
Biography
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.
Born: August 6, 1962
Place of Birth: Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia
Known For
Filmography
as Dr. Karina Mogue
as Dr. Karina Mogue
as Madame Morrible
as Self
as Philippa Georgiou
as Self
as Madame Morrible
as Self
as Mei-Yin Li (voice)
as Loo (voice)
as Eileen 'Mama' Sun
as Joyce Reynolds
as Airazor (voice)
as Guanyin Pusa
as Scían
as Self
as Professor Anemone
as Yuki (voice)
as Master Chow (voice)
as Evelyn Wang
as Ying Nan
as Florence
as Self
as Dai Feng
as Narrator (voice)
as Santa
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Tso Ngan Kwan
as Yin Rong (Lady Yin)
as Philippa Georgiou
as Eleanor Young
as Captain Philippa Georgiou
as Emperor Philippa Georgiou
as Aleta Ogord
as Dr. Lui Cheng
as Mei
as Herself
as Yu Shu Lien
as Lotus
as Lotus
as Julia
as Aung San Suu Kyi
as Self
as The Soothsayer (voice)
as Zeng Jing
as Mei Foster
as self
as Dr. Yu
as Self / Narrator
as Saiva
as Sister Rebeka
as Zi Yuan
as Mrs. Wang
as Corazon
as Self
as Miss Yang
as Mameha
as Self - Guest
as Lulu Wong
as Pak Yin Fay
as Yu Sau Lien (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) (archive footage)
as Yu Shu Lien
as Michelle
as Self
as Self - 008
as Wai Lin
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Soong Ai Ling / Madam Kung
as Ah Kam
as Self
as Self
as Ah King
as Ying
as Yim Wing Chun
as Snow
as Jessica Yang Jian Wa
as Ching, Invisible Woman
as Mon Ching Sze / To Col Ching
as Ching, The Invisible Woman
as Lady Ko
as Captain Jessica Yang
as Michelle Yeung Ling
as Ming
as Madam Michelle Yip
as Senior Inspector Ng
as Judo Instructor
as Ms. Yeung
as Self - Presenter
as Self
as Self
as Self - Presenter
as Self - Nominee
as 赵艳红