Michelle Yeoh
Age: N/A | From: Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng , Michelle Khan , Ziqiong Yang , Chi-King Yeung , Yeoh Choo-kheng , Мішель Йєо , Michelle Kheng , Michelle Yaoh , Yang Zi-Qiong , میشل یئو , میشل یو
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 80
TV Involvements: 11
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
(2023) Airazor (voice)
Star Trek: Discovery
(2017) Emperor Philippa Georgiou
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
(2021) Ying Nan
Everything Everywhere All at Once
(2022) Evelyn Wang
The Witcher: Blood Origin
(2022) Scían
Wicked
(2024) Madame Morrible
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
(2017) Aleta Ogord
ARK: The Animated Series
(2024) Mei-Yin Li (voice)Acting
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2031 | Dr. Karina Mogue | |
| 2029 | Dr. Karina Mogue | |
| 2025 | Madame Morrible | |
| 2024 | Self | |
| Madame Morrible | ||
| Self | ||
| Loo (voice) | ||
| Mei-Yin Li (voice) | ||
| Eileen 'Mama' Sun | ||
| 2023 | Joyce Reynolds | |
| Airazor (voice) | ||
| Self | ||
| Guanyin Pusa | ||
| 2022 | Scían | |
| N/A | ||
| Self | ||
| Professor Anemone | ||
| Yuki (voice) | ||
| Self | ||
| Master Chow (voice) | ||
| Evelyn Wang | ||
| 2021 | Ying Nan | |
| Florence | ||
| Self | ||
| Dai Feng | ||
| 2020 | Self | |
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 2019 | Santa | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| Self | ||
| 2018 | Tso Ngan Kwan | |
| Philippa Georgiou | ||
| Eleanor Sung-Young | ||
| N/A | ||
| 2017 | Captain Philippa Georgiou | |
| Emperor Philippa Georgiou | ||
| Aleta Ogord | ||
| 2016 | Dr. Lui Cheng | |
| N/A | ||
| Mei | ||
| Herself | ||
| Yu Shu Lien | ||
| N/A | ||
| 2015 | Lotus | |
| N/A | ||
| 2014 | Lotus | |
| N/A | ||
| Self | ||
| 2013 | Julia | |
| 2011 | Aung San Suu Kyi | |
| Self | ||
| The Soothsayer (voice) | ||
| 2010 | Zeng Jing | |
| Mei Foster | ||
| self | ||
| Dr. Yu | ||
| 2009 | Self / Narrator | |
| 2008 | Saiva | |
| Sister Rebeka | ||
| Zi Yuan | ||
| Mrs. Wang | ||
| N/A | ||
| 2007 | Corazon | |
| Self | ||
| 2006 | Miss Yang | |
| 2005 | Mameha | |
| 2004 | Lulu Wong | |
| 2003 | Self | |
| 2002 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Wai Lin (archive footage) (uncredited) | ||
| Wai Lin, 'Tomorrow Never Dies' (archive footage) | ||
| Pak Yin Fay | ||
| Yu Sau Lien (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) (archive footage) | ||
| 2001 | Self | |
| 2000 | Yu Shu Lien | |
| 1999 | (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Michelle | ||
| 1998 | Self | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| Self (008) | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1997 | Wai Lin | |
| Self | ||
| Self - Guest | ||
| Soong Ai-ling / Madam Kung | ||
| 1996 | Ah Kam | |
| Self (Archive Footage) | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| 1994 | Ah King | |
| Ying | ||
| Yim Wing Chun | ||
| 1993 | Snow | |
| Jessica Yang Jian Wa | ||
| Sandy Ching, Invisible Girl | ||
| Mon Ching Sze / To Col Ching | ||
| Ching, The Invisible Woman | ||
| Lady Ko | ||
| 1992 | Captain Jessica Yang | |
| 1987 | Michelle Yeung Ling | |
| Ming | ||
| 1986 | Madam Michelle Yip | |
| 1985 | Senior Inspector Ng | |
| Judo Instructor | ||
| 1984 | Ms. Yeung | |
| 1953 | Self - Presenter | |
| Self | ||
| 1952 | Self | |
| 1944 | Self - Presenter | |
| Yin Rong (Lady Yin) | ||
| Emperor Philippa Georgiou | ||
| Eleanor Sung-Young | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 申艳红 | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Crew
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Thanks | |
| 1998 | Thanks | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Executive Producer | |
| 2009 | Producer | |
| 2004 | Producer | |
| 2002 | Producer | |
| Executive Producer | ||
| Producer | ||
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |