Biography Dato Michelle Yeoh

Yeoh was innate(p) to a Malaysian Chinese family in Ipoh, Malaysia. Her parents are Janet Yeoh and Yeoh Kian Geik, a lawyer and MCA politician. 2 She is a Hokkien. 6 She was keen on dance from an early age, beginning concert dance at the age of four. At the age of 15, she moved with her parents to England, where she was enrolled in a boarding school. Yeoh later studied at the Royal Academy of saltation in London, majoring in ballet. However, a spinal injury prevented her from becoming a professional ballet dancer, and she transferred her attention to choreography and other arts.She later veritable a B. A. degree in Creative Arts with a tike in Drama. In 1983, at the age of 20, Yeoh won the Miss Malaysia smash vaunt. 1 She represented Malaysia at the Queen of the Pacific 1983 beauty pageant which was held in Australia and won the crown. She was also Malaysias representative at the 1983 Miss World pageant in London. From there, she appeared in a television commercial with Jackie C han which caught the attention of a fledgling Hong Kong film production company, D&B Films.Yeoh started her film life history acting in motion and martial arts films such as Yes, Madam in 1985, after which she did most of her own stunts. 7 The D&B Group in Hong Kong was run by Dickson Poon. Yeoh married Poon in 1987 and retired from acting. by and by the couple divorced in 1992, Yeoh returned to acting. 1Yeohs coiffureance in Police tier 3 Super Cop sealed her comeback. She acted in The Heroic trine in 1993, and the Yuen Woo-ping films Tai Chi Master and Wing Chun in 1994. Yeoh erudite side of meat and Malay before Cantonese.She learned the lines for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon phonetically. She asterisked in the pack Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies as Wai Lin (1997). Natasha Henstridge was rumoured to be cast in the lead Bond girl enjoyment but eventually Yeoh was confirmed. 8 Brosnan was impressed, describing her as a wonderful actress who was serious and act about her work. 9 He referred to her as a fe potent James Bond in reference to her combat abilities. She wanted again to perform her own stunts but was prevented because director Roger Spottiswoode considered it too dangerous.Still she performed all of her own fighting scenes. 1011 Thereafter, she was offered the role of Seraph in the two sequels to The Matrix, but she could not accept receivable to a scheduling conflict (the Matrix writers then changed Seraph into a male character and cast Collin Chou in the role). 12 In 2002, she produced her first English film, The Touch through her own production company, Mythical Films. In 2005, Yeoh starred as the graceful Mameha in the film adaptation of Memoirs of a Geisha, and she proceed her English-language work in 2007 with Sunshine.In 2008, Michelle Yeoh also starred in fantasy action film The Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor with Brendan Fraser and Jet Li. 13 Yeoh at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2011. In 2010, she starred in R eign of Assassins. In October 2011, she was chosen by Guerlain to be its skincare ambassador. 14 Yeoh go out play a role in strengthening the French cosmetics companys human relationship with Asia. 15 Apart from action films, she is famous for playing nationalists in two biopics. In 1997, she played Soong Ai-ling in the award winning The Soong Sisters. In 2011, she portrayed Aung San Suu Kyi in Luc Bessons The Lady.