Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng, PSM is a Malaysian actress who rose to fame in 1990s Hong Kong action films. She is best known internationally for her roles in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies and martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Yeoh was born in Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia to a local ethnic Malaysian Chinese family of Hokkien and Cantonese ancestry.
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Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng, PSM is a Malaysian actress who rose to fame in 1990s Hong Kong action films. She is best known internationally for her roles in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies and martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Yeoh was born in Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia, to a local ethnic Malaysian Chinese family of Hokkien and Cantonese ancestry. In 1983, at the age of 20, Yeoh won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant. She later studied at the UK’s Royal Academy of Dance in London, majoring in ballet. She married Dickson Poon, who headed the D&B Group, in 1987 and retired from acting. In 2018, she starred in the American romantic comedy-drama film, Crazy Rich Asians. She has also co-starred in the 2018 film Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy and the 2019 film Last Christmas. 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 the only Asian of the\”35 All-Time Screen Beauties\”.
She changed her stage name back to Michelle Yeoh when she started her Hollywood career with Tomorrow never Dies in 1997. She then appeared in The Heroic Trio and the Yuen Woo-ping films Tai Chi Master and Wing Chun in 1993 and 1994, respectively. Her other works include Memoirs of a Geisha and Star Trek: Discovery. In 2009, she portrayed Aung San Suu Kyi in The Lady, in which she was also the Malaysian representative at the Miss World 1983 pageant in London. She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress for her work in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. She now lives in Los Angeles and works as a consultant for a film production company. She also has a successful acting career as a director and producer.
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