Michelle Yeoh, who received the Best Actress award at the 95th Academy Awards, was born on August 6, 1962, in Ipoh, Malaysia. Her parents are Janet Yeoh and Yeoh Kian Teik, a couple who immigrated from China, and the actress is originally Chinese.
Born in Malaysia in 1962, the real name of the actress is Michelle Choo-Kheng Yeoh. Michelle Yeoh, who studied ballet since the age of 4, attended the Royal Academy in London. After a short-lived career in dance, she won the title of Miss Malaysia in the beauty pageant she participated in in the 1980s.
In 1984, she appeared in front of the camera with Jackie Chan for the first time in a commercial. Her film career in the Far East began in 1985.
Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng (6 August 1962) is a Malaysian actress. Credited as Michelle Khan in her early films in Hong Kong, she rose to fame in the 1990s after starring in Hong Kong action films where she performed her own stunts. These roles include Yes, Madam (1985); Magnificent Warriors (1987); Police Story 3: Supercop (1992); The Heroic Trio (1993); and Holy Weapon (1993).
She became known to Western audiences only in the 1990s. She starred in the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and the Tiger and the Dragon (2000). Michelle Yeoh, who attracted the attention of directors and producers with her performance in action films, even though she did not receive professional fighting training with her experience from her dancing career, went on to star in such films as Daylight (2007), The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008), The Lady (2011), Kaplan and She appeared in prominent productions such as Dragon 2 (2016), Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (2017), Master Z: The Legacy of Ip Man (2018) and Gunpowder Cocktail (2021).
The successful actress, who won an Oscar for Best Actress for her role as Evelyn Wang in the film Everything Everywhere at the Same Time (2022), was listed as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world by People magazine in 1997.
In 2022, she was declared one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine.
Michelle Yeoh married businessman Dickson Poon in 1988. The couple's marriage ended in 1991.
Her worldwide popularity made her the first choice for Guerlain, a traditional French cosmetics company, to become their skincare ambassador in 2011. She made her television breakthrough in 2015 as Mei Foster/Li-Na in the final season of 'Strike Back'. In 2016, Yeoh played the character Lotus in the TV series 'Marco Polo'. She also starred in many films during this period, such as 'Mechanic: Resurrection' (2016) and 'Morgan' (2016).