Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh was born in Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia on August 6th, 1962 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 61, Michelle Yeoh biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng, PSM (born 6 August 1962) is a Malaysian actress.
She rose to fame in 1990 Hong Kong action films, and she is best known internationally for her roles in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and the martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), as well as recent international English films and series. Born in Ipoh, Malaysia, she won the Miss Malaysia pageant of 1983 at the age of 20.
After appearing in a string of Hong Kong action films in which she performed her own stunts, including Yes, Madam (1985) and Holy Weapon (1993), she later achieved fame in the early 1990s.
In her early Hollywood films, she was identified as Michelle Khan.
She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress for her role in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. She has appeared in numerous English, Mandarin, and Cantonese language films.
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), Reign of Assassins (2010), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (2016), Star Trek: Discovery (2017), and The Lady (2011), in which she portrayed Aung San Suu Kyi, she portrayed Aung San Suu Kyi.
Crazy Rich Asians, an American romantic comedy-drama film, starred in her in 2018.
She has appeared in 2019 films Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy and Last Christmas as a co-star. In 2008, Rotten Tomatoes, a film review website, rated her as the best action heroine of all time.
She was selected by People as one of the World's Best Beauty in 1997, and the same publication named her as one of the "35 All-Time Screen Beauties" in 2009, the only Asian actress to be included on the list.
Early life and education
Yeoh was born in Ipoh, Perak, on August 6th, 1962, to a local ethnic Malaysian Chinese family of Hokkien and Cantonese ancestry. Janet Yeoh Kian-teik's parents, as well as the man behind the popular express bus service, Sri Maju, died on November 5, 2014.
Yeoh was keen on dance from an early age, starting ballet at the age of four. She attended Main Convent Ipoh, an all-girls secondary school in Ipoh, as a primary student. At the age of 15, she and her parents migrated to the United Kingdom, where she was enrolled in a boarding school. Yeoh later studied at the Royal Academy of Dance in London, concentrating on ballet. However, a spinal injury kept her from being a professional ballet dancer, so she turned her attention to choreography and other arts. She received a bachelor's degree in creative arts with a minor in drama later on.
Personal life
Yeoh was married to Hong Kong entrepreneur Dickson Poon, who operated Harvey Nichols and Charles Jourdan from 1988 to 1992. Yeoh was engaged to Alan Heldman, an American cardiologist, in 1998. She began dating Jean Todt, then the General Manager and CEO of Scuderia Ferrari, and later the president of the FIA. During an interview with Craig Ferguson on CBS's The Late Late Show, she revealed her commitment to him in July 2008.
Yeoh is a Buddhist. She went to Vietnam in March 2008 to film a documentary for the Asian Injury Prevention Foundation. Yeoh is also a patron of Save China's Tigers project, which pledges to protect the endangered South China tiger.
Career
Yeoh claimed the Miss Malaysia World competition in 1983 at the age of 20. She was Malaysia's representative at the Miss World 1983 pageant in London. She returned to Australia later this year, where she won the Miss International Tourism Quest pageant. Jackie Chan's appearance in a television commercial attracted the attention of a fledgling Hong Kong film production firm, D&B Films.
Yeoh began her film career by appearing in action and martial arts films, where she did the bulk of her own stunts. Yes, Madam (1985), she was granted her third credit, and she was in charge of a central role. In these earlier films, she was credited as Michelle Khan. D&B Films selected this alias because it was thought it would be more marketable to international and western audiences. Yeoh married Dickson Poon, the D&B Group's chairman, in 1987 and retired from acting.
After having divorced Poon, Yeoh returned to acting in Police Story 3: Super Cop (1992). She appeared in The Heroic Trio (1993) and the Yuen Wooping films Tai Chi Master and Wing Chun in 1993 and 1994, respectively.
Michelle Yeoh began her Hollywood career with Tomorrow Never Dies in 1997, and she renamed her stage name back to her name when she started her acting career with Tomorrow Never Dies. She played Wai Lin opposite actor Pierce Brosnan in the 1997 James Bond film. Brosnan was enthralled when she said she was described as a "wonderful actress" who was "serious and committed to her work." In reference to her combat skills, he referred to her as a "female James Bond." She wanted to perform her own stunts but was refused by director Roger Spottiswoode because it was too risky. Nonetheless, she appeared in all of her own combat scenes. Yeoh was then recruited by Ang Lee to appear in the Chinese language martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). The film was shot in various provinces around China. Before learning Cantonese, Yeoh had grown up speaking English and Malay. She spoke little Mandarin and learned the Mandarin lines for Crouching Tiger, the Hidden Dragon's phonetically speaking. The film was a worldwide success, and Yeoh was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role by the British Academy in 2000.
Yeoh created The Touch, her first English film, in 2002, through her own production company, Mythical Films. Yeoh appeared in the film version of Memoirs of a Geisha in 2005, and she continued her English-language work with Sunshine in 2007. Yeoh appeared in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor in 2008, as well as Brendan Fraser and Jet Li.
Yeoh was chosen by Guerlain to be its skincare ambassador in October 2011. Yeoh's job was to help the French cosmetics company's relationship with Asia. She is best known for her appearances in two biopics, apart from action films. She appeared in The Soong Sisters, an award-winning event that took place in 1997. In Luc Besson's The Lady, she portrayed Aung San Suu Kyi. Yeoh was blacklisted by the Burmese government for reportedly supporting The Lady; she was refused admission to Myanmar on June 22 and was arrested on the same day.
Yeoh did not venture into television until 2015, with her first role as Mei Foster, the British Ambassador to Thailand who is covertly a North Korean spy named Li-Na on the fifth season of the Cinemax/Sky series Strike Back. Yeoh appeared in Star Trek: Discovery as Starfleet Captain Philippa Georgiou of the USS Shenzhou in 2016, and recurs as Georgiou's "mirror" doppelganger later in the film.
Eleanor Young, the family matriarch of Jon M. Chu's Crazy Rich Asians, appeared in Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians, opposite Constance Wu and Henry Golding. Carlos Aguilar of TheWrap described her appearance as "convincingly subpoen." In Last Christmas, she appeared in "Santa" as a Christmas themed store owner, opposite Henry Golding and Emilia Clarke. The film was released on November 8, 2019, and it was a box office hit with over $121 million worldwide.
In Marvel Studios' Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, Yeoh played Ying Nan. On September 3, 2021, the film was released in theaters. Yeoh will appear in Ark: The Animated Series, a Studio Wildcard series based on the video game Ark: Survival Evolved, in which she plays Mei-Yin Li, the Beast Queen of the Jungle, was announced at The Game Awards 2020.
Yeoh starred in Everything Everywhere, a science fiction black comedy film that took place in 2022. She portrayed struggling laundromat owner Evelyn Wang, a role that earned her widespread critical acclaim, with IndieWire's David Ehrlich claiming it to be the "best show that Michelle Yeoh has ever given."
Yeoh is expected to appear in the forthcoming Disney+ series American Born Chinese, based on Gene Luen Yang's book of the same name. Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt for Netflix were announced in June 2022 that she would appear in the eight-part series The Brothers Sun for Netflix, and that in August 2022, she would appear in Russo Brothers' The Electric State starring Millie Brown and Chris Pratt.
She is due to appear in a Haunting in Venice directed by Kenneth Branagh.