Michelle Yeoh

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.

Known For

Yu Shu Lien

卧虎藏龍

Corazon

Sunshine

Wai Lin

Tomorrow Never Dies

Zi Yuan

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

Captain Jessica Yang

警察故事 III：超級警察

Snow

太极张三丰

Saiva

Far North

Pak Yin Fay

The Touch

Yim Wing Chun

Wing Chun

Sister Rebeka

Babylon A.D.

Mrs. Wang

黃石的孩子

Lady Ko

新流星蝴蝶劍

Lulu Wong

飞鹰

Soong Ai Ling / Madam Kung

宋家皇朝

Dr. Yu

苏乞儿

Ming

中華戰士

Ching, The Invisible Woman

東方三俠

Zeng Jing

剑雨

Madam Michelle Yip

皇家戰士

Michelle

星月童話

Self - 008

成龍的傳奇

Jessica Yang Jian Wa

超級計劃

Philippa Georgiou

Star Trek: Section 31

Ying

7金剛

Senior Inspector Ng

皇家師姐

The Soothsayer (voice)

Kung Fu Panda 2

Yu Sau Lien (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) (archive footage)

Ultimate Fights from the Movies

Mon Ching Sze / To Col Ching

武俠七公主之天劍絕刀

Ching, Invisible Woman

現代豪俠傳

Aung San Suu Kyi

The Lady

Narrator (voice)

The Hidden Kingdoms of China

Self

The New Face of Hollywood – A Soul of a Nation Presentation

Ah Kam

阿金

Lotus

Marco Polo: One Hundred Eyes

Self (archive footage)

Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks

Ms. Yeung

貓頭鷹與小飛象

Self / Narrator

Among the Great Apes with Michelle Yeoh

Ah King

笑林小子2：新烏龍院

Michelle Yeung Ling

通天大盜

self

Rose, c'est Paris

Yu Shu Lien

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny

Self

Hong Kong Stories

Judo Instructor

夏日福星

Joyce Reynolds

A Haunting in Venice

Airazor (voice)

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

Mei

Mechanic: Resurrection

Self

Jean Todt, la méthode

The Mother

赵艳红

魔方小姐

Self

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

Madame Morrible

Wicked: For Good

Making The Witcher: Blood Origin

Purple Mountain

Self

Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked

Dr. Lui Cheng

Morgan

Self

The Bridge

Yuki (voice)

Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank

Julia

Final Recipe

Tso Ngan Kwan

葉問外傳：張天志

Aleta Ogord

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Eleanor Young

Crazy Rich Asians

Yin Rong (Lady Yin)

大闹东海

Self

Fucking Kassovitz

Evelyn Wang

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Herself

Dragon Girls! Les amazones de la pop culture asiatique

Florence

Gunpowder Milkshake

Santa

Last Christmas

Dai Feng

Boss Level

Self

Grit & Polish: Heroines from Hong Kong

Master Chow (voice)

Minions: The Rise of Gru

Ying Nan

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Mameha

Memoirs of a Geisha

Self

Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times

Loo (voice)

The Tiger's Apprentice

Highly Classified: The World of 007

Self

The Secrets of 007

Miss Yang

霍元甲

Professor Anemone

The School for Good and Evil

Dr. Karina Mogue

Avatar 4

Dr. Karina Mogue

Avatar 5

Madame Morrible

Wicked

Self

Making Wicked

The Surgeon

Self

Inside the Worlds of Epic Universe

Self

The Making of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'

Self

A Conversation with Michelle Yeoh

Self

Wicked: One Wonderful Night