Michelle Yeoh

Known for ActingBorn 1962-08-06 (age 64)Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Wicked: For Good - A Sneak Peek

Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Everything Everywhere All at Once

Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times

Among the Great Apes with Michelle Yeoh

Hong Kong Stories

The Hidden Kingdoms of China

Wicked: One Wonderful Night

Epic Ride: The Story of Universal Theme Parks

The Bridge

Making Wicked

ARK: The Animated Series

Everything Everywhere All at Once

The Secrets of 007

The Brothers Sun

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked

Memoirs of a Geisha

Fearless

Strike Back

Fucking Kassovitz

Marco Polo

The Tiger's Apprentice

Minions: The Rise of Gru

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Marvel Studios Assembled

Marco Polo: One Hundred Eyes

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

Last Christmas

The Graham Norton Show

Jean Todt: The Method

The School for Good and Evil

Crazy Rich Asians

Kung Fu Panda 2

The Stunt Woman

Wicked

Tai-Chi Master

Yes, Madam!

Boss Level

Star Trek: Discovery

Sunshine

Final Recipe

Highly Classified: The World of 007

After Trek

Reign of Assassins

Dragon Girls!

American Born Chinese

Wing Chun