Dato' Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng (traditional Chinese: 楊紫瓊; simplified Chinese: æ¨ç´«ç¼; pinyin: Yáng ZÇqióng; Cantonese (Yale romanization): yèuhng jà kìhng; born August 6, 1962) is a BAFTA Award-nominated Chinese Malaysian actress and dancer, well known for performing her own stunts in the action films that brought her to fame in the early 1990s.
Born in Ipoh, Malaysia, she is based in Hong Kong and was chosen by People magazine 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 action film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, for which she was nominated the BAFTA for "Best Actress". In 2008, the film critic website Rotten Tomatoes ranked her the greatest action heroine of all time.
She is credited as Michelle King and Michelle Khan in some of her earlier films.
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Dato' Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng (traditional Chinese: 楊紫瓊; simplified Chinese: æ¨ç´«ç¼; pinyin: Yáng ZÇqióng; Cantonese (Yale romanization): yèuhng read more...
Yeoh was previously married to Hong Kong businessman Dickson Poon.
She is rumored to be engaged to former Scuderia Ferrari CEO Jean Todt. Despite frequent rumors in the Asian read more...
On April 19, 2001, Yeoh was awarded the Darjah Datuk Paduka Mahkota Perak (DPMP), which carries the title Dato' by Sultan Azlan Shah, the Sultan of Perak, her home state, in recognition read more...