Michelle Yeoh
Acting
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.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
as Evelyn Wang
Age 59 (now 63)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
as Yu Shu Lien
Age 37 (now 63)
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
as Ying Nan
Age 59 (now 63)
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
as Airazor (voice)
Age 60 (now 63)
Police Story 3: Super Cop
as Captain Jessica Yang
Age 29 (now 63)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny
as Yu Shu Lien
Age 53 (now 63)
Star Trek: Discovery
as Emperor Philippa Georgiou
Age 55 (now 63)
Sandiwara
as The Critic / The Hawker / The Waitress / The Vlogger / The Singer
Age 63
Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked
as Self
Age 62 (now 63)
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
as Airazor (voice)
Age 60 (now 63)
The New Face of Hollywood – A Soul of a Nation Presentation
as Self
Age 60 (now 63)
The School for Good and Evil
as Professor Anemone
Age 60 (now 63)
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
as Yuki (voice)
Age 59 (now 63)
Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Everything Everywhere All at Once
as Self
Age 59 (now 63) Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Everything Everywhere All at Once
Thanks
Age 59 (now 63)
Everything Everywhere All at Once
as Evelyn Wang
Age 59 (now 63) Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
as Ying Nan
Age 59 (now 63)
Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times
as Self
Age 58 (now 63)
The Hidden Kingdoms of China
as Narrator (voice)
Age 57 (now 63)
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
as Self (archive footage)
Age 57 (now 63)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
as Aleta Ogord
Age 54 (now 63)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny
as Yu Shu Lien
Age 53 (now 63)
Among the Great Apes with Michelle Yeoh
as Self / Narrator
Age 47 (now 63)
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
as Zi Yuan
Age 45 (now 63)
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
as Yu Sau Lien (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) (archive footage)
Age 39 (now 63)
Grit & Polish: Heroines from Hong Kong
as Self
Age 39 (now 63)
The Making of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'
as Self
Age 38 (now 63) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
as Yu Shu Lien
Age 37 (now 63)
Highly Classified: The World of 007
as Self
Age 35 (now 63)
Heroic Trio 2: Executioners
as Ching, Invisible Woman
Age 31 (now 63)
Police Story 3: Super Cop
as Captain Jessica Yang
Age 29 (now 63)
Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars
as Judo Instructor
Age 23 (now 63)
Epic Ride: The Story of Universal Theme Parks
as Herself
Age 63
ARK: The Animated Series
as Mei-Yin Li (voice)
Age 61 (now 63)
Star Trek: Discovery
as Emperor Philippa Georgiou
Age 55 (now 63) Star Trek: Discovery
as Captain Philippa Georgiou
Age 55 (now 63)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
Age 53 (now 63)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
Age 52 (now 63)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
Age 51 (now 63)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
Age 51 (now 63)
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Also Known As
Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng, Michelle Khan, Ziqiong Yang, Chi-King Yeung, Yeoh Choo-kheng, Michelle Kheng, Michelle Yaoh, Yang Zi-Qiong
IMDB
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