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Aug 06, 1962 Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia 61 years old
Malaysian actress of Chinese ethnicity
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Michelle Yeoh - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Michelle Yeoh
- Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng, PSM, (; born 6 August 1962) is a Malaysian actress.
- She rose to fame in 1990s Hong Kong action films, and is best known internationally for her roles in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), and martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), along with recent international English films and series. Born in Ipoh, Malaysia, she won the Miss Malaysia pageant of 1983 at the age of 20.
- She later achieved fame in the early 1990s after starring in a series of Hong Kong action films in which she performed her own stunts, such as Yes, Madam (1985), Police Story 3: Supercop (1992) and Holy Weapon (1993).
- She was credited as Michelle Khan in her early Hollywood films.
- She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress for her work in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. She has appeared in many English, Mandarin and Cantonese language films.
- Her other works include Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), Reign of Assassins (2010), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (2016), Star Trek: Discovery (2017) and The Lady (2011), in which she portrayed Aung San Suu Kyi.
- In 2018, she starred in the American romantic comedy-drama film, Crazy Rich Asians.
- She has also co-starred in 2019 films Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy and Last Christmas. 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"—the only Asian actress to make the list.
