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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 6, 1962
Place of Birth
Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia
Also Known As
- Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng
- Michelle Khan
- Ziqiong Yang
- Chi-King Yeung
- Yeoh Choo-kheng
- Michelle Kheng
- Michelle Yaoh
- Yang Zi-Qiong
Michelle Yeoh
3.9 Popularity
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.
Known For
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Dr. Karina Mogue
Avatar 5
2031
0.0
Dr. Karina Mogue
Avatar 4
2029
6.8
Madame Morrible
Wicked: For Good
2025
10.0
Self
Wicked: For Good - A Sneak Peek
2025
8.4
Self
Wicked: One Wonderful Night
2025
0.0
Self
Inside the Worlds of Epic Universe
2025
4.8
Philippa Georgiou
Star Trek: Section 31
2025
8.0
Self
Making Wicked
2024
7.5
Self
Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked
2024
6.9
Madame Morrible
Wicked
2024
Credits
Avatar 5
as Dr. Karina Mogue
2031
0.0
Avatar 4
as Dr. Karina Mogue
2029
0.0
Wicked: For Good
as Madame Morrible
2025
6.8
Wicked: For Good - A Sneak Peek
as Self
2025
10.0
Wicked: One Wonderful Night
as Self
2025
8.4
Inside the Worlds of Epic Universe
as Self
2025
0.0
Star Trek: Section 31
as Philippa Georgiou
2025
4.8
Making Wicked
as Self
2024
8.0
Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked
as Self
2024
7.5
Wicked
as Madame Morrible
2024
6.9
The Bridge
as Self
2024
0.0
ARK: The Animated Series
as Mei-Yin Li (voice)
2024
8.3
The Tiger's Apprentice
as Loo (voice)
2024
7.3
The Brothers Sun
as Eileen 'Mama' Sun
2024
7.6
A Haunting in Venice
as Joyce Reynolds
2023
6.6
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
as Airazor (voice)
2023
7.2
The New Face of Hollywood – A Soul of a Nation Presentation
as Self
2023
0.0
American Born Chinese
as Guanyin Pusa
2023
6.6
The Witcher: Blood Origin
as Scían
2022
6.6
Making The Witcher: Blood Origin
2022
4.0
Jean Todt: The Method
as Self
2022
7.0
The School for Good and Evil
as Professor Anemone
2022
7.0
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
as Yuki (voice)
2022
6.7
Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Everything Everywhere All at Once
as Self
2022
10.0
Minions: The Rise of Gru
as Master Chow (voice)
2022
7.3
Everything Everywhere All at Once
as Evelyn Wang
2022
7.7
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
as Ying Nan
2021
7.5
Gunpowder Milkshake
as Florence
2021
6.3
Marvel Studios Assembled
as Self
2021
7.2
Boss Level
as Dai Feng
2021
6.9
Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times
as Self
2020
10.0
The Hidden Kingdoms of China
as Narrator (voice)
2020
9.3
Last Christmas
as Santa
2019
7.2
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
6.3
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
as Self (archive footage)
2019
6.7
The Ready Room
as Self
2019
4.0
Master Z: Ip Man Legacy
as Tso Ngan Kwan
2018
6.5
The Legend of Nezha
as Yin Rong (Lady Yin)
2018
8.0
Star Trek: Short Treks
as Philippa Georgiou
2018
6.3
Crazy Rich Asians
as Eleanor Young
2018
7.1
My Legacy and I
2018
0.0
Star Trek: Discovery
as Captain Philippa Georgiou
2017
7.0
Star Trek: Discovery
as Emperor Philippa Georgiou
2017
7.0
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
as Aleta Ogord
2017
7.6
Morgan
as Dr. Lui Cheng
2016
5.8
鲁豫有约一日行
2016
4.0
Mechanic: Resurrection
as Mei
2016
6.0
Dragon Girls!
as Herself
2016
7.5
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny
as Yu Shu Lien
2016
6.2
Trump Card
2016
6.5
Marco Polo: One Hundred Eyes
as Lotus
2015
7.3
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
6.2
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
4.6
Marco Polo
as Lotus
2014
7.3
Chef Nic
2014
0.0
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
2014
5.3
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
2014
5.9
Final Recipe
as Julia
2013
6.5
The Lady
as Aung San Suu Kyi
2011
6.8
Fucking Kassovitz
as Self
2011
7.5
Kung Fu Panda 2
as The Soothsayer (voice)
2011
7.1
Reign of Assassins
as Zeng Jing
2010
6.9
Strike Back
as Mei Foster
2010
7.4
Rose, c'est Paris
as self
2010
4.8
True Legend
as Dr. Yu
2010
6.6
Among the Great Apes with Michelle Yeoh
as Self / Narrator
2009
10.0
Far North
as Saiva
2008
6.0
Babylon A.D.
as Sister Rebeka
2008
5.7
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
as Zi Yuan
2008
5.5
The Children of Huang Shi
as Mrs. Wang
2008
6.7
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Purple Mountain
2008
0.0
Sunshine
as Corazon
2007
7.0
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
Fearless
as Miss Yang
2006
7.5
Memoirs of a Geisha
as Mameha
2005
7.6
Dancing with the Stars
as Self - Guest
2005
6.1
Silver Hawk
as Lulu Wong
2004
5.4
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Hong Kong Stories
as Self
2003
0.0
The Touch
as Pak Yin Fay
2002
5.0
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
as Yu Sau Lien (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) (archive footage)
2002
4.9
Grit & Polish: Heroines from Hong Kong
as Self
2001
0.0
🎬
The Making of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'
as Self
2000
0.0
🎬
A Conversation with Michelle Yeoh
as Self
2000
0.0
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
as Yu Shu Lien
2000
7.4
Moonlight Express
as Michelle
1999
6.8
Vivement dimanche
as Self
1998
3.0
Jackie Chan: My Story
as Self - 008
1998
6.3
Highly Classified: The World of 007
1998
4.0
Tomorrow Never Dies
as Wai Lin
1997
6.4
The Secrets of 007
as Self
1997
7.9
The View
as Self - Guest
1997
4.3
The Soong Sisters
as Soong Ai Ling / Madam Kung
1997
6.5
The Stunt Woman
as Ah Kam
1996
7.1
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
6.4
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self
1996
3.9
Shaolin Popey II: Messy Temple
as Ah King
1994
4.9
Wonder Seven
as Ying
1994
6.2
Wing Chun
as Yim Wing Chun
1994
6.8
Tai-Chi Master
as Snow
1993
7.2
Supercop 2
as Jessica Yang Jian Wa
1993
5.7
Heroic Trio 2: Executioners
as Ching, Invisible Woman
1993
5.9
Holy Weapon
as Mon Ching Sze / To Col Ching
1993
6.2
The Heroic Trio
as Ching, The Invisible Woman
1993
6.6
Butterfly and Sword
as Lady Ko
1993
5.7
Police Story 3: Super Cop
as Captain Jessica Yang
1992
6.9
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
1988
5.4
Easy Money
as Michelle Yeung Ling
1987
5.0
Magnificent Warriors
as Ming
1987
6.5
Royal Warriors
as Madam Michelle Yip
1986
6.7
Yes, Madam!
as Senior Inspector Ng
1985
7.1
Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars
as Judo Instructor
1985
6.5
The Owl vs Bombo
as Ms. Yeung
1984
4.9
The Oscars
as Self - Presenter
1953
7.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Today
as Self
1952
5.6
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
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The Mother
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0.0
🎬
Blade Runner 2099
as Olwen
N/A
0.0
Lady R
as 赵艳红
N/A
0.0
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The Surgeon
N/A
0.0
🎬
Sandiwara
N/A
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