Michelle yeoh biography imdb

Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng (or just Michelle Yeoh; born 6 August 1962) is a Chinese Malaysianactress of Chinese ancestry.^[2] She became famous by having a number of roles in 1990s Hong Kong action movies.

She is best known for her role as Wai Lin in Tomorrow Never Dies.^[3] Also, she played as Yu Shu Lien in the 2000 movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.^[4]

Her role in the 2022 movie Everything Everywhere All at Once, won her a Golden Globe Award^[5] a Screen Actors Guild Award, and an Academy Award for Best Actress.^[6] She is the first Asian to win the Oscar for Best Actress.^[7][8]

Career

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Yeoh won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant at age 20 in 1983.^[9] She also represented Malaysia at the Queen of the Pacific 1983 beauty pageant.^[9] The pageant was held in Australia.

She won.^[9]

Yeoh started her career acting in martial arts and act