Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng is a Malaysian actress. Credited as Michelle Khan in her early films in Hong Kong, she rose to fame in the 1990s after starring in Hong Kong action films where she performed her own stunts. These roles include Yes, Madam ; Magnificent Warriors ; Police Story 3: Supercop ; The Heroic Trio ; and Holy Weapon .
After moving to the United States, Yeoh gained international recognition for starring in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies and in Ang Lee's martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon , the latter for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Her career progressed with roles in Memoirs of a Geisha , Sunshine , The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor , Reign of Assassins , Kung Fu Panda 2 , and The Lady , in which she portrayed Aung San Suu Kyi.
Yeoh played supporting roles in the romantic comedies Crazy Rich Asians and Last Christmas , the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings , and had a voice role in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts . She also starred in the television series Star Trek: Discovery , The Witcher: Blood Origin , and American Born Chinese . For her starring role as an overwhelmed mother navigating the multiverse in Everything Everywhere All at Once , 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.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.
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