Michelle Yeoh
Actor, Film actor
1962 –
Who is Michelle Yeoh?
Tan Sri Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng, is a Malaysian actress, best known for performing her own stunts in the Hong Kong action films that brought her to fame in the early 1990s. Born in Ipoh, Malaysia, she was chosen by People as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" in 1997.
She is best known in the Western world for her roles in the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, playing Wai Lin, and the multiple Academy Award-winning Chinese-language martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in 2000. In 2008, the film critic website Rotten Tomatoes ranked her the greatest action heroine of all time. In 2009, she was listed by People magazine – as the only Asian actress – as one of the "35 All-Time Screen Beauties".
She is credited as Michelle Khan in some of her earlier films. This alias was chosen by the D&B studio who thought it might be more marketable to international and western audiences. Yeoh later preferred using her real name.
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- Born
- Aug 6, 1962
Ipoh - Also known as
- Michelle Khan
- Ziqiong Yang
- Yang Zi Chong
- Chi-King Yeung
- Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng
- Yeoh Chu-Kheng
- Yáng Zǐqióng
- Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng
- 楊紫瓊
- Tan Sri Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng
- Parents
- Spouses
- Dickson Poon
(1988/02 - 1992) - Jean Todt
(2004 - )
- Dickson Poon
- Religion
- Buddhism
- Ethnicity
- Malaysian Chinese
- Nationality
- Malaysia
- Profession
- Education
- Royal Academy
- Royal Academy of Dance
- Lived in
- Perak
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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