Michelle Yeoh

Pipped for an Oscars win and dazzling audiences in Everything Everywhere All at Once, we reveal all the details about Michelle Yeoh, her partner and whether ...

- Yeoh studied ballet at the Royal Academy of Dance in London, moving to England aged 15. Emily Stedman is the Features Editor for GoodTo covering all things TV, entertainment, royal, lifestyle, health and wellbeing. - Aged 21, Michelle Yeoh was crowned Miss Malaysia in a national beauty pageant in 1983. Fast forward to the 2023 awards season and Michelle has already made a splash. Michelle Yeoh grew to prominence for her roles in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies. The two were at a car unveiling event for Ferrari and Yeoh and Todt were made to pose together for photos. "A guy was trying to clear the stage and was being rude, so Jean went up to him and talked him down," she said. And if I’m being honest with myself, I didn't want for us to be bitter 10 years down the road. The Oscar-nominated actress revealed that being unable to have children was what prompted her divorce from ex-husband Dickson Poon. "I didn’t want anybody to say, 'he’s there because he’s the producer,'" she recollected to "He’s about my height, and the fact that he could talk down someone bigger than him was my first impression of him – and a good one." Michelle Yeoh is engaged to long-term partner Jean Todt.

Over a career spanning four decades, Michelle Yeoh has been disarming audiences with her physical prowess as a martial artist and her emotive talent as an ...

Her character Eleanor Young is the sophisticated and tough-as-nails mom to main character Nick (Henry Golding), whose choice of girlfriend, Rachel (Constance Wu), Eleanor is less than thrilled with. Yeoh joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the most graceful of styles, playing a mystical warrior who showed just how much of a dance martial-arts combat can really be. Yeoh portrayed a mother not to be played with in this 2018 film, the first major Hollywood movie to feature a majority Asian cast in 25 years (coming after “The Joy Luck Club” in 1993). Directed by Luc Besson and costarring David Thewlis, the film is also a touching love story, earning Yeoh a best actress nomination for a Satellite Award. Yeoh played one of the most powerful Bond women, an equal to 007 in terms of smarts and strength. Yeoh shows off her martial-arts skills in this Hong Kong action-comedy opposite Jackie Chan, which received a dubbed release in the US.

Playing a middle-aged Chinese immigrant woman jumping through the multiverse while trying to fix her taxes, Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh's talent in the ...

The portrayal of Asian women in movies has long been distorted and detrimental to Asian American women's self-image. Michelle Yeoh's character in ...

(1998). 3). In one of these multiverses is a glamorous, movie-star Evelyn, stepping out of a limousine, with a glimpse of—wink wink—a Crazy Rich Asians poster in the background (a film in which Yeoh starred). Cultural Diversity and Mental Health, 4(3), 185–202. [stressed](https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/basics/stress) and utterly unglamorous, dressed in frumpy, mismatched clothes and wearing no make-up, and Yeoh, the actress, allows herself to look this way for much of the movie. Evelyn is raising a highly acculturated daughter and has to explain her daughter—and herself—to a very traditional, disapproving parent. An Asian woman who’s traveled a few paths and left some untaken, like Evelyn, like many of us, who has arrived at the one she has chosen to embrace. While the sheer number of nominations of Asian performers is astonishing, it is Michelle Yeoh’s visibility and role in Everything Everywhere All at Once that is truly game-changing. Hollywood has done its part in perpetuating demeaning stereotypes, either portraying Asian women as prostitutes, madams, dragon ladies, or not at all, rendering diverse and realistic representations largely absent on the big screen. On Sunday, the Oscars makes history by having four Asian or Asian American actors up for awards in marquee categories: Michelle Yeoh for Best Actress, Ke Huy Quan for Best Supporting Actor, and Stephanie Hsu and Hong Chau for Best Supporting Actress. Since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, hate crimes against Asian Americans have risen by about 150 percent. I mean, who has five-plus hours to devote to watching a lot of beautiful, privileged, and, still, overwhelmingly White people congratulate themselves and others just like them?

If Asian superstar Michelle Yeoh makes history by winning an Oscar, Hollywood has much more to gain.

Ms Diana bristled at the suggestion by some online that the prominence of Asian-centric productions has been more about diversity and token representation than actual merit: "Why do they have to be mutually exclusive? Visibly emotional, she told the audience at the SAG Awards: "This is not just for me. It has to be addressed at the level of hiring. "Hollywood is finally catching up with the rest of the world," says Diana Othman, a Singaporean movie aficionado who watches more than 100 new films each year. The problem isn't going to be solved by window dressing at awards shows. Reports suggest this could be because of a strong domestic industry as well as lagging interest in Hollywood blockbusters. The largely Asian and Asian-American cast of the breakout sci-fi comedy - Hong included - has earned a long list of accolades already. The film has 11 nominations, and four of those nominees are of Asian descent. It has certainly been building up since the Oscar success of Bong Joon-ho's darkly satirical Parasite and Lee Isaac Chung's haunting Minari. So audiences everywhere have turned to streaming platforms like Netflix, Amazon and Apple TV, which are offering fresh and original content. She hailed Yeoh's nomination in what she called one of the "whitest" Oscar categories. This year, the Indian action epic RRR has also made waves.

She was able to launch her acting career in Hong Kong martial arts films, in which she did most of her own stunts. She landed her first leading role with 1985's ...

Oscar nominee Michelle Yeoh discusses the movies that influenced her on Deadline's video series The Film That Lit My Fuse.

She starred in the blockbuster Crazy Rich Asians, and is starring in a quartet of Avatar sequels from James Cameron. The film has delivered on every level, and Yeoh is a front runner for the Best Actress Award, one of 11 Oscars the film is in contention for this weekend. This is actually a reprise of a segment we did in anticipation of Everything, Everywhere, All At Once’s launch at SXSW last March.

It's no question that Michelle Yeoh is one of the main stars this award season. The seasoned actress' undeniable charm has her fans eagerly awaiting her ...

Playing a middle-aged Chinese immigrant woman jumping through the multiverse while trying to fix her taxes, Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh's talent in the ...

In Yes, Madam! Michelle Yeoh tackled her first on-screen starring role and her first go at death-defying stunts.

There can be a case to be had that Yes, Madam!, in some form, might be on superstar Evelyn’s resume. One of the oddities to Yes, Madam!, is the eerie synth cue from Halloween (1978), a link connecting Yeoh and Jamie Lee Curtis before their time with IRS audits and hot dog fingers of Everything Everywhere All At Once. The real Michelle Yeoh would branch off, going on to play in She looks forward to going on a date early on, that is until it ends very badly and forces her into the hunt for the microfilm. A sense of justice needs to be restored, and a violent one at that. When it comes to the pairing of Ng and Morris, it hits the usual beats of buddy cop movies. “The film was released on a Thursday at midnight in front of a bellwether crowd that could make or break its reputation. Ng is not just a cop, she’s got a life outside of work, something she directly tells her superior who tries to keep her on a shift. is a cult classic and at times, kind of oddball, even setting up a link between Jamie Lee Curtis and Yeoh long before they would share the screen in Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022). is switched out for the name In The Line of Duty II The Super Cops -- although this one is very much the first installment. (1985) is Yeoh like you’ve never seen before, a [ferocious force](https://collider.com/michelle-yeoh-badass-non-action-roles/) of fist and fury. [Michelle Yeoh](https://collider.com/tag/michelle-yeoh/) warned in her 2023 Golden Globes speech when the damn orchestra tries to cut her off.

Michelle Yeoh's performance in “Everything Everywhere All at Once” might win her the Best Actress Oscar on Sunday. Catch up on the talented actor's work ...

“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” popularized the idea that kicks and punches can have the grace of ballet, and that the kung fu genre can carry serious weight. The weirdness of “Everything Everywhere All at Once” has nothing on this film. Michelle Yeoh’s performance in “Everything Everywhere All at Once” has won her high praise – and it might win her the Best Actress Oscar on Sunday.

It may have swept awards season so far, but the Daniels' absurdist comedy-drama is still an underdog in this race. Annabel Nugent makes the case that it's a ...

Yeoh is one of the most recognisable Asian actors in the world, but EEAO is the first time the actor has topped a Hollywood call sheet. In a way, EEAO is a victim of its own success. Even recently, as the crazy rich mum in Crazy Rich Asians, she doesn’t have a hair out of place. It’s fair to say, then, that EEAO is worlds away from the sort of prestige drama that usually gets the Academy going. And for once, the same can be said of much of its competition. They made good on that buzz this year, as the film swept awards season in remarkable fashion, turning out a slew of heartwarming acceptance speeches that have gone viral every time.

Ahead of tomorrow night's Academy Awards, we look back at the best actress contender's long, varied career, from Tomorrow Never Dies and Crouching Tiger to ...

[Sunshine](https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/sunshine-2007) (2007) and the little-seen but eerily atmospheric Arctic love triangle [Far North](https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/far-north-2007) (2008). [Tomorrow Never Dies](https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/tomorrow-never-dies) (1997). But the whopping success of [Crazy Rich Asians](https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/crazy-rich-asians) (2018), and her regal, amusingly deadpan presence in it, seemed to remind casting agents of Yeoh’s power – alongside, perhaps, an imperious recurring role in TV’s [Star Trek: Discovery](https://www.justwatch.com/uk/tv-series/star-trek-discovery), which endeared her to a whole new fanbase of geeks. [Reign of Assassins](https://www.itv.com/watch/reign-of-assassins/10a3148) (currently free on ITVX), an absolutely relentless, Ming dynasty-set, woman-against-the-world romp co-directed by John Woo. [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon](https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon) (2000) took Yeoh’s fighting moves to balletic heights while giving her big, soulful romantic notes to play. Luc Besson improbably gave her a shot at prestige glory with the Aung San Suu Kyi biopic [The Lady](https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/the-lady) (2011), but despite Yeoh’s earnest efforts, the film was a dreary – and now woefully outdated – misfire. Sixteen years later, minus her co-stars, she reprised her role in the hokey Netflix sequel [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny](https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80039717). [Everything Everywhere All at Once](https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/everything-everywhere-all-at-once) has become the unassailable best picture frontrunner. A few years later, she more than held her own opposite Jackie Chan in the similarly fast, furious [Police Story 3: Supercop](https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/police-story-3-super-cop) (Prime), a hit that triggered a run of nine Yeoh roles in two years, all absent from the legal streaming realm. [The Stunt Woman](https://tv.apple.com/gb/movie/ah-kam/umc.cmc.6adkqbq09y2crkznuwlo44vyn?playableId=tvs.sbd.9001%3A1543719091) (1996; Apple TV) is the most interesting and instructive of her early vehicles, however. The veteran Malaysian-born star is in a neck-and-neck race for best actress with [Cate Blanchett](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/feb/12/cate-blanchett-tar-interview-todd-field-oscars), gathering momentum on a tide of industry affection and decades-long notability. [In the Line of Duty II: The Super Cops](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Line-Duty-II-Super-Cops/dp/B0B5ZT6SHK), with Yeoh credited by her earlier moniker Michelle Khan.