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Michelle Yeoh

Malaysian actress known for her versatile roles and stunt work in action films.

Michelle Yeoh is one of 1237 people in the A–Z index, listed under M.

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Michelle Yeoh is best known for Performing her own stunts in Hong Kong action and martial arts films and winning an Academy Award for acting. On Dead or Alive, Michelle Yeoh is listed in the Bond Actors and Villains category, where you can test yourself on similar names. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Michelle Yeoh is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

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Known for: Performing her own stunts in Hong Kong action and martial arts films and winning an Academy Award for acting.
Listed under: Bond Actors and Villains

About Michelle Yeoh

Credited as Michelle Khan in her early films, she rose to fame in the 1980s and 1990s after starring in Hong Kong action and martial arts films where she performed her own stunts. These roles included Yes, Madam (1985), Magnificent Warriors (1987), Police Story 3: Supercop (1992), The Heroic Trio and Tai Chi Master (both 1993), and Wing Chun (1994). Her Hollywood career progressed with roles in Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), Sunshine (2007), and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008). In 2011, she portrayed Aung San Suu Kyi in the British biographical film The Lady (2011). For her starring role as Evelyn Quan Wang in Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first Asian to win the category. The film review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes ranked her the greatest action heroine of all time in 2008. In 1997, she 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." In 2022, Time named her one of the world's 100 most influential people on its annual listicle and its Icon of the Year. In 2024, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Michelle Yeoh is known for Performing her own stunts in Hong Kong action and martial arts films and winning an Academy Award for acting.

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