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| Birth Name(s) : Yeoh Choo-Kheng |
Date of Birth: August 6, 1962 |
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Full Michelle Yeoh Biography
Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Mooba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does all of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. She became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She has been offered a role in a sequel to Matrix, The (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in Touch, The (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.Born as Yang Zi |
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Additional Michelle Yeoh Biography
Born in Ipoh, Malaysia, she is based in Hong Kong and was chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World in 1997.
Michelle Yeoh was born to an ethnic Chinese family in Ipoh, Malaysia on August 6, 1962. She was very sporty when she was young and had a passion in dance. She started to study ballet at the age of four years old. At the age 15, her parents accompanied her to England and enrolled her at a boarding school there. Later Yeoh entered London Royal Academy of Dance, majoring in Ballet. But a spinal injury ended her dream of being a prima ballerina, and she consequently had to switch her focus away from dance to choreography and other arts. She later received a B.A. degree in Creative Arts with a minor in Drama.
It was at the age of 21 when Yeoh became the winner of the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant in 1983. She was also Malaysia's representative at the 1983 Miss World pageant in London. From there, she appeared in a television commercial with Jackie Chan which caught the attention of a fledgling film production company called D&B Films.
Yeoh's career in Hong Kong started with a few commercials for Charles Jourdan, opposite action movie heroes Jackie Chan and Chow Yun-Fat before being offered a film contract. The Charles Jourdan brand was handled by D&B Group in Hong Kong, run by Yeoh's future husband, Dickson Poon. In 1988, she retired after marrying Poon. Three years later, the couple divorced, and Yeoh returned to acting in 1992. Her first movie after the comeback was Police Story 3, which was partly shot in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Yeoh started her film career acting in action and martial arts movies such as The Heroic Trio in 1993, and the Yuen Woo-ping films Tai Chi Master and Wing Chun in 1994. Yeoh has had no formal martial arts training and she relies on her dance training and instructors, and does many of her own stunts.
Yeoh learned English and Malay before Cantonese, and cannot read Chinese characters. As she does not speak Mandarin, she learned the lines for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon phonetically.
Like many other Hong Kong stars, Yeoh has attempted to break into Hollywood. She starred in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies as Wai Lin (1997) and the popular Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). Thereafter, she was offered the role of Seraph in the two sequels to The Matrix, and she could not accept due to a scheduling conflict (the Matrix writers then changed Seraph into a male character and cast Collin Chou in the role). In 2002, she produced her first English movie, The Touch through her own production company, Mythical Films.
In 2005, Yeoh starred as the graceful Mameha in the film adapation of Memoirs of a Geisha, and she continued her English-language work in 2007 with Sunshine.
Her current boyfriend is French CEO of Scuderia Ferrari, Jean Todt. Rumors spread by the Asian press about an upcoming marriage have been denied by Yeoh.
On April 19, 2001, Yeoh was awarded the Darjah Datuk Paduka Mahkota Perak (DPMP), which carries the title Dato' by Sultan Azlan Shah, the Sultan of Perak, her home state, in recognition of the fame she brought to the state. The award was given in conjunction with the Sultan's 73rd birthday celebrations. Dato is an honorary Malaysian title somewhat like a British knighthood, and it lies below the ranks of Dato' Seri, Tan Sri and Tun.
On November 25, 2002, Michelle Yeoh was honored as The Outstanding Young Persons of the World (TOYP) (Cultural Achievement) by JCI (Junior Chamber International).
On 23 April 2007 President Jacques Chirac awarded her Knight of the Legion of Honour of France. The decoration was presented to her in a ceremony in Kuala Lumpur on 3 October 2007. |
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