Dato' Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng (traditional Chinese: 楊紫瓊; simplified Chinese: 杨紫琼; pinyin: Yáng Zǐqióng; Cantonese (Yale romanization): yèuhng jí kìhng; born 6 August 1962) is a BAFTA Award-nominated actress and dancer, well known for performing her own stunts in the action films that brought her to fame in the early 1990s.

Born in Ipoh, Malaysia to a Han Chinese family, 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.

She is best known in the Western world for her roles in the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, playing Wai Lin, and the multiple Academy Award-winning Chinese action film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, for which she was nominated the BAFTA for "Best Actress". In 2008, the film critic website Rotten Tomatoes ranked her the greatest action heroine of all time.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Michelle Yeoh." | Wiki History
NFL: Baltimore 20, Pittsburgh 17 (OT) (26 min)
Nets fire Coach Lawrence Frank (52 min)
NBA: LA Lakers 106, New Jersey 87
COL BKB: Washington 63, Montana 59
NBA: Sacramento 112, New Orleans 96
UPI Sports Calendar for Monday, Nov. 30
NHL: Phoenix 3, Anaheim 2 (OT)
fark
The 40,000 British parents who home-school their children may be required to undergo a criminal...
Woman says a deranged man followed her off the bus and stole her teeth. "He kept thaying how my...
Man arrested running down London street in only his socks, with photo of what a sock might look...
Photoshop this rocket man
New screening system put in place to ease the number of calls received by the Department of Children...
Just another night in Iowa - the corn growin', the birds chirpin', the naked drunken biatch ramming...