Michelle Yeoh

Acting · 4.0 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: August 6, 1962
From: Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia

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.

Works

92 films

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

20177.6

Everything Everywhere All at Once

20227.7

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

20237.2

Wicked

20246.9

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

20217.5

Wicked: For Good

20256.6

Minions: The Rise of Gru

20227.3

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

20085.5

Kung Fu Panda 2

20117.1

Boss Level

20216.9

A Haunting in Venice

20236.6

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

20007.4

Mechanic: Resurrection

20166.1

Tomorrow Never Dies

19976.4

Crazy Rich Asians

20187.0

The Tiger's Apprentice

20247.2

Sunshine

20077.0

The School for Good and Evil

20227.0

Memoirs of a Geisha

20057.6

Babylon A.D.

20085.7

Gunpowder Milkshake

20216.3

Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank

20226.6

Police Story 3: Super Cop

19926.9

Fearless

20067.5

Last Christmas

20197.2

Master Z: Ip Man Legacy

20186.5

Avatar 4

2029

Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars

19856.5

Star Trek: Section 31

20254.7

Tai-Chi Master

19937.2

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny

20166.1

Morgan

20165.8

Wing Chun

19946.9

True Legend

20106.6

Reign of Assassins

20106.9

Royal Warriors

19867.0

The Lady

20116.8

It's My Time

20266.0

Avatar 5

2031

Yes, Madam!

19857.2

Dragon Girls!

20167.5

Wicked: One Wonderful Night

20258.2

The Heroic Trio

19936.7

Shaolin Popey II: Messy Temple

19945.6

Jackie Chan: My Story

19986.3

Supercop 2

19935.7

Sandiwara

20266.2

Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks

20196.8

The Touch

20025.1

Heroic Trio 2: Executioners

19935.9

Silver Hawk

20045.5

Moonlight Express

19996.8

Butterfly and Sword

19935.7

The Children of Huang Shi

20086.6

Ultimate Fights from the Movies

20025.0

Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked

20247.5

The Bridge

2024

Bond Girls Are Forever

20025.7

The Soong Sisters

19976.6

Marco Polo: One Hundred Eyes

20157.3

The Stunt Woman

19967.2

The Owl vs Bombo

19845.5

Wonder Seven

19946.4

Highly Classified: The World of 007

19987.0

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

202210.0

Inside the Worlds of Epic Universe

2025

Magnificent Warriors

19876.6

Final Recipe

20136.9

Far North

20086.0

Rose, c'est Paris

20104.7

The Legend of Nezha

20268.0

The Mother

2026

Fucking Kassovitz

20117.4

Holy Weapon

19936.5

Grit & Polish: Heroines from Hong Kong

2001

The Secrets of 007

19977.9

Making Wicked: For Good

2025

Wicked: For Good - A Sneak Peek

202510.0

Making Wicked

20248.0

Easy Money

19875.6

Purple Mountain

2008

Jean Todt: The Method

20227.0

The Surgeon

2026

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

2023

Hong Kong Stories

200310.0

Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times

202010.0

The Hidden Kingdoms of China

20209.4

Making The Witcher: Blood Origin

20224.0

A Conversation with Michelle Yeoh

2000

The Making of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'

2000

Among the Great Apes with Michelle Yeoh

200910.0

American Born Chinese: Stunts Featurette

2023