The Straits Times: Actress Michelle Yeoh named Asian Film-maker of the Year at Busan film festival
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Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng Todt is a Malaysian actress. In a career spanning over four decades, she has acted in film and television productions covering a wide range of genres and received various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, along with nominations for two British Academy Film Awards. Credited as Michelle Khan in her early films, she rose to fame in the 1980s and…
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entertainment · Malaysian actress (born 1962) · actor · model · beauty pageant contestant · film actor · film producer · also Michelle Yeoh, Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng, Michelle Khan, Michelle Yeoh Chu-Kheng, Yang Ziqiong, Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng
Born 6 August 1962 · Q214289
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2026· 7 entries
NewsBytes: BIFF: Michelle Yeoh honored as Asian Filmmaker of the Year
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The Korea Herald: Michelle Yeoh named Asian filmmaker of the year at Busan film festival
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Variety: Michelle Yeoh Named Asian Filmmaker of the Year at Busan
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Yahoo News Canada: Thousands of women shared this image of Jamie Lee Curtis and Michelle Yeoh with a powerful message
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Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (2026).
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Yeoh starred in and served as chief producer for the sports drama It's My Time, marking her first Chinese film project since the Academy
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2025· 1 entry
Yeoh joined the English-language cast of the Chinese animated blockbuster Ne Zha 2, voicing a lead character in the version released by A24 and CMC Pictures
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2024· 2 entries
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom (2024).
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Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom
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2023· 4 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2023).
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Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2023).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2023).
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Career landmark: member of the International Olympic Committee (2023).
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2022· 7 entries
Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role (2022).
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Awarded Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Performance for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022).
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Awarded Time 100 (2022).
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Awarded Saturn Awards (2022).
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Awarded Asia's Most Influential Malaysia (2022).
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Told Vanity Fair that Shakespeare and Stephen King were her favourite authors and that Tarzan was her favourite fictional hero
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Time named her one of the world's 100 most influential people on its annual listicle and its Icon of the Year
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2021· 1 entry
Awarded Asia's Most Influential Malaysia (2021).
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2020· 1 entry
Awarded BBC 100 Women (2020).
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2019· 1 entry
Played Christmas themed-store owner "Santa" in Last Christmas, opposite Henry Golding and Emilia Clarke
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2018· 1 entry
Yeoh played family matriarch Eleanor Young in Jon M
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2017· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (2017).
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2016· 1 entry
Yeoh was cast as Starfleet Captain Philippa Georgiou of the starship USS Shenzhou in the series Star Trek: Discovery, and recurs as Georgiou's "mirror" doppelganger later in the series
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2013· 1 entry
Changed to the role of executive producer for the project Pad Yatra: A Green Odyssey
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (2012).
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2011· 2 entries
Portrayed Aung San Suu Kyi in Luc Besson's The Lady
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Portrayed Aung San Suu Kyi in the British biographical film The Lady (2011)
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2008· 1 entry
Yeoh starred in the fantasy action film The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor with Brendan Fraser and Jet Li
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (2007).
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2005· 1 entry
Yeoh starred as Mameha in the film adaptation of Memoirs of a Geisha, and she continued her English-language work in 2007 with Sunshine
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2004· 2 entries
Began dating Jean Todt, then the general manager and CEO of Scuderia Ferrari and later the president of the FIA
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Yeoh met Jean Todt, a French motor racing executive, in Shanghai during a publicity event for Ferrari
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2002· 1 entry
Yeoh produced her first English film, The Touch, through her own production company Mythical Films
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1999· 1 entry
Was a member of the jury at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival
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1997· 2 entries
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
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Yeoh played Soong Ai-ling in the award-winning The Soong Sisters
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1987· 1 entry
Yeoh married her first husband Dickson Poon, a co-founder of D&B Films, and decided to retire from acting
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1983· 1 entry
Twenty-year-old Yeoh won the Miss Malaysia World beauty contest
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1975· 1 entry
A major intercity coach service in Malaysia and Singapore
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1962· 1 entry
Born 1962-08-06.
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