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).
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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Avatar 5
Character:Dr. Karina Mogue
Release Date:17/12/2031
Avatar 4
Character:Dr. Karina Mogue
Release Date:19/12/2029
Making Wicked: For Good
Character:Self
Release Date:30/12/2025
Wicked: For Good
Character:Madame Morrible
Release Date:19/11/2025
Wicked: For Good - A Sneak Peek
Character:Self
Release Date:07/11/2025
Wicked: One Wonderful Night
Character:Self
Release Date:06/11/2025
Inside the Worlds of Epic Universe
Character:Self
Release Date:20/08/2025
Star Trek: Section 31
Character:Philippa Georgiou
Release Date:15/01/2025
Making Wicked
Character:Self
Release Date:31/12/2024
Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked
Character:Self
Release Date:16/11/2024
Wicked
Character:Madame Morrible
Release Date:16/10/2024
The Bridge
Character:Self
Release Date:27/05/2024
The Tiger's Apprentice
Character:Loo (voice)
Release Date:16/02/2024
Murder Death & Haunting
Character:Self
Release Date:04/12/2023
A Haunting in Venice
Character:Joyce Reynolds
Release Date:13/09/2023
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Character:Airazor (voice)
Release Date:06/06/2023
The New Face of Hollywood – A Soul of a Nation Presentation
Character:Self
Release Date:26/05/2023
Making The Witcher: Blood Origin
Character:
Release Date:25/12/2022
Jean Todt: The Method
Character:Self
Release Date:13/11/2022
The School for Good and Evil
Character:Professor Anemone
Release Date:19/10/2022
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
Character:Yuki (voice)
Release Date:14/07/2022
Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Everything Everywhere All at Once
Character:Self
Release Date:05/07/2022
Minions: The Rise of Gru
Character:Master Chow (voice)
Release Date:29/06/2022
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Character:Evelyn Wang
Release Date:24/03/2022
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Character:Ying Nan
Release Date:01/09/2021
Gunpowder Milkshake
Character:Florence
Release Date:14/07/2021
Boss Level
Character:Dai Feng
Release Date:19/02/2021
Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times
Character:Self
Release Date:19/09/2020
The Hidden Kingdoms of China
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:22/02/2020
Last Christmas
Character:Santa
Release Date:07/11/2019
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:14/08/2019
Master Z: Ip Man Legacy
Character:Tso Ngan Kwan
Release Date:20/12/2018
Crazy Rich Asians
Character:Eleanor Young
Release Date:15/08/2018
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Character:Aleta Ogord
Release Date:19/04/2017
Morgan
Character:Dr. Lui Cheng
Release Date:01/09/2016
Mechanic: Resurrection
Character:Mei
Release Date:25/08/2016
Dragon Girls!
Character:Herself
Release Date:03/07/2016
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny
Character:Yu Shu Lien
Release Date:18/02/2016
Marco Polo: One Hundred Eyes
Character:Lotus
Release Date:26/12/2015
Final Recipe
Character:Julia
Release Date:10/10/2013
The Lady
Character:Aung San Suu Kyi
Release Date:30/11/2011
Fucking Kassovitz
Character:Self
Release Date:16/11/2011
Kung Fu Panda 2
Character:The Soothsayer (voice)
Release Date:25/05/2011
Reign of Assassins
Character:Zeng Jing
Release Date:01/09/2010
Rose, c'est Paris
Character:self
Release Date:05/05/2010
True Legend
Character:Dr. Yu
Release Date:09/02/2010
Among the Great Apes with Michelle Yeoh
Character:Self / Narrator
Release Date:09/12/2009
Far North
Character:Saiva
Release Date:09/10/2008
Babylon A.D.
Character:Sister Rebeka
Release Date:20/08/2008
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Character:Zi Yuan
Release Date:01/07/2008
The Children of Huang Shi
Character:Mrs. Wang
Release Date:03/04/2008
Purple Mountain
Character:
Release Date:01/01/2008
Sunshine
Character:Corazon
Release Date:05/04/2007
Fearless
Character:Miss Yang
Release Date:26/01/2006
Memoirs of a Geisha
Character:Mameha
Release Date:06/12/2005
Silver Hawk
Character:Lulu Wong
Release Date:15/01/2004
Hong Kong Stories
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/2003
The Touch
Character:Pak Yin Fay
Release Date:01/08/2002
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
Character:Yu Sau Lien (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) (archive footage)
Release Date:16/04/2002
Grit & Polish: Heroines from Hong Kong
Character:Self
Release Date:01/10/2001
The Making of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'
Character:Self
Release Date:08/12/2000
A Conversation with Michelle Yeoh
Character:Self
Release Date:08/12/2000
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Character:Yu Shu Lien
Release Date:06/07/2000
Moonlight Express
Character:Michelle
Release Date:01/04/1999
Jackie Chan: My Story
Character:Self - 008
Release Date:17/07/1998
Highly Classified: The World of 007
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1998
Tomorrow Never Dies
Character:Wai Lin
Release Date:11/12/1997
The Secrets of 007
Character:Self
Release Date:04/12/1997
The Soong Sisters
Character:Soong Ai Ling / Madam Kung
Release Date:01/05/1997
The Stunt Woman
Character:Ah Kam
Release Date:10/10/1996
Shaolin Popey II: Messy Temple
Character:Ah King
Release Date:04/12/1994
Wonder Seven
Character:Ying
Release Date:01/04/1994
Wing Chun
Character:Yim Wing Chun
Release Date:24/03/1994
Tai-Chi Master
Character:Snow
Release Date:18/11/1993
Supercop 2
Character:Jessica Yang Jian Wa
Release Date:21/10/1993
Heroic Trio 2: Executioners
Character:Ching, Invisible Woman
Release Date:30/09/1993
Holy Weapon
Character:Mon Ching Sze / To Col Ching
Release Date:03/06/1993
The Heroic Trio
Character:Ching, The Invisible Woman
Release Date:12/02/1993
Butterfly and Sword
Character:Lady Ko
Release Date:16/01/1993
Police Story 3: Super Cop
Character:Captain Jessica Yang
Release Date:04/07/1992
Easy Money
Character:Michelle Yeung Ling
Release Date:20/08/1987
Magnificent Warriors
Character:Ming
Release Date:16/04/1987
Royal Warriors
Character:Madam Michelle Yip
Release Date:26/06/1986
Yes, Madam!
Character:Senior Inspector Ng
Release Date:30/11/1985
Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars
Character:Judo Instructor
Release Date:15/08/1985
The Owl vs Bombo
Character:Ms. Yeung
Release Date:12/12/1984
Television Appearances
ARK: The Animated Series
Character:Mei-Yin Li (voice)
The Brothers Sun
Character:Eileen 'Mama' Sun
American Born Chinese
Character:Guanyin Pusa
The Witcher: Blood Origin
Character:Scían
Marvel Studios Assembled
Character:Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Character:Self
The Ready Room
Character:Self
Star Trek: Short Treks
Character:Philippa Georgiou
My Legacy and I
Character:
Star Trek: Discovery
Character:Captain Philippa Georgiou
Star Trek: Discovery
Character:Emperor Philippa Georgiou
鲁豫有约一日行
Character:
Trump Card
Character:
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Character:
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Character:Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Character:Self
Marco Polo
Character:Lotus
Chef Nic
Character:
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Character:Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Character:Self - Guest
Strike Back
Character:Mei Foster
The Graham Norton Show
Character:Self
Dancing with the Stars
Character:Self - Guest
Vivement dimanche
Character:Self
The View
Character:Self - Guest
The Daily Show
Character:Self
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Character:Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Character:Self - Guest
The Oscars
Character:Self - Presenter
The Oscars
Character:Self
Today
Character:Self
Golden Globe Awards
Character:Self - Presenter
Golden Globe Awards
Character:Self - Nominee
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