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Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh
The latest news on Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian actress, including film and celebrity news.
Born
6 Aug 1962
Industry
Entertainment, Film
Job Title
Actor
last updated:
4 December, 2024
Cynthia Rothrock (left) and Michelle Yeoh in a still from Yes, Madam! (1985), made by D&B Films, a studio founded by watch retailer Dickson Poon, who would go on to marry Yeoh. Photo: Handout
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

The rise and fall of Hong Kong’s ‘middle class’ film studio

D&B films, started by watch retailer Dickson Poon, launched Michelle Yeoh’s action-movie career and was known for its ‘middle class values’.

SCMP Highlights

Recap | Michelle Yeoh opens up, Thai monkeys run riot: 5 latest Asia news stories

Malaysia

Michelle Yeoh says not being able to have kids ‘biggest sadness’ of her life

Heidi Klum

Recap | Want to bump into Beyoncé, Beckham, William and Kate, Rihanna or Clooney? Celebrity vacation spots revealed!

Discover the top holiday destinations in Europe, Asia and around the world where Hollywood A-listers, superstar singers and all the top celebrities like to take their vacations.

Heidi Klum and Tom Kaulitz, pictured here at Paris Fashion Week in September, are known for enjoying breaks in Caribbean island getaways such as St Barts or Turks and Caicos. Photo: Getty
United States

Biden honours Malaysia’s Michelle Yeoh with top US civilian award

The list of 19 Medal of Freedom honorees pays homage to ‘firsts’ in their field, including the Everything Everywhere All at Once star, the first Asian to win the Oscar for Best Actress.

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Profile

Hong Kong martial arts film icon Sammo Hung on his stellar career

Martial arts film icon and the 2024 Hong Kong Film Awards’ Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Sammo Hung talks about his movies, stars like Donnie Yen, Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan – and eating.

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Asian cinema

What we know about Michelle Yeoh’s marriage to Hong Kong magnate Dickson Poon

The EEAAO star almost gave up acting for her first husband – and eventually wed motorsports mogul Jean Todt last year – but remains close to Hong Kong’s powerful Poon family

Oscar-winning actress Michelle Yeoh married Hong Kong tycoon Dickson Poon in 1988; what do we know about the pair’s relationship? Photo: SCMP Archive
American cinema

Review | The Tiger’s Apprentice: Michelle Yeoh, Henry Golding can’t save messy story

Directed by Raman Hui and starring the voices of Michelle Yeoh, Henry Golding and Brandon Soo Hoo, The Tiger’s Apprentice is a messy, unfocused animation that cherry-picks from Chinese mythology.

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Netflix

Review | The Brothers Sun: Michelle Yeoh anchors Netflix gangster family comedy

Michelle Yeoh plays the mother to Bruce, an aspiring comedian, and, Charles, an enforcer for their father, a triad boss in Taiwan. When Charles joins his mother and sibling in the US, violence ensues.

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Hong Kong society

Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh welcomes ‘grandson Maxime’ into the world

Superstar, who launched her film career in Hong Kong, shares pictures on Instagram of her holding the foot of grandson Maxime.

Michelle Yeoh and husband Jean Todt join his son Nicolas and daughter-in-law Darina after the birth of baby Maxime. Photo: Instagram/nicolastodt
Netflix

Stars of Netflix show ‘The Brothers Sun’ dish on working with Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh

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TV shows and streaming video

How Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh put young co-stars in The Brothers Sun at ease

Upcoming Netflix action drama with Michelle Yeoh, The Brothers Sun, is all about family, according to the Oscar winner’s two younger co-stars. They talk about how her motherly presence eased their nerves.

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Disease

Biohacking, CIA spy in China, Michelle Yeoh’s fashion: 2023’s top long reads

The life of Barney Cheng, fashion designer who’s dressed Michelle Yeoh among others, China’s release of a jailed CIA spy, a biohacker’s extreme regime – long reads in Post Magazine you loved in 2023.

Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

‘This is it’: the 90s film set on which Michelle Yeoh was seriously injured

Ah Kam, a 1996 film by Ann Hui starring Michelle Yeoh and Sammo Hung, combined realistic drama, melodrama and triad action. Seen as experimental, it was overshadowed by an injury Yeoh sustained on set.

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Actress Michelle Yeoh at an interview with the Post about “Ah Kam” in 1996. Photo: SCMP
Hong Kong entertainment

Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh awarded honorary degree in Hong Kong

Actress awarded honorary doctoral degree from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in recognition of her success in film industry, advocacy work.

Thumbs up from Michelle Yeoh as she poses for a picture with fans at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Photo: Edmond So
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Don’t call me gweilo: how Michael Wong got his break in Michelle Yeoh film

Michael Wong’s early films in Hong Kong saw the Chinese-American actor treated like a foreigner, and typecast as a cop after starring as one in the Michelle Yeoh vehicle Royal Warriors.

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Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Michelle Yeoh’s mentor, Jackie Chan’s boss – the many sides to Sammo Hung

Actor, producer, martial artist – Sammo Hung has loomed large in Hong Kong’s film industry since the 1960s. We bet you don’t know about some aspects of his long movie career.

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Fashion

How Taiwanese label Shiatzy Chen became a Paris Fashion Week regular

A regular at Paris Fashion Week for 15 years and loved by Michelle Yeoh, Taiwanese label Shiatzy Chen has been at the forefront of Chinese design since its founding in 1978.

Wang Chen Tsai-Hsia, also known as Madame Wang walks the runway after her show in Paris. Photo: Getty Images
IOC

Malaysia’s Michelle Yeoh joins International Olympic Committee after vote

Malaysian Oscar winner says ‘as a child I never dreamed of being an actress, but of being an Olympian’.

Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Why Michelle Yeoh’s early Hollywood career took a while to take off

Michelle Yeoh is a Hollywood darling now, but Tomorrow Never Dies and Memoirs of a Geisha, two of her early films made in the United States, did not bring the Hong Kong action heroine lasting success there.

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SCMP Highlights

China’s ‘batwoman’ warns of highly likely coronavirus outbreak: 5 weekend reads

From China’s ‘batwoman’ to Michelle Yeoh’s fashion designer, here are stories you may have missed over the weekend.

The Wuhan Institute of Virology in central China’s Hubei province. Photo: AP
Profile

He’s dressed Michelle Yeoh, Deng Xiaoping’s daughters: meet Barney Cheng

Hong Kong fashion designer Barney Cheng tells Kate Whitehead about growing up in a huge family, getting culture shock in a Canadian Christian school, and rubbing shoulders with the fabulously rich.

Hong Kong fashion designer Barnie Cheng with Michelle Yeoh at the 2019 AMFAR Gala. Yeoh is wearing a gown he created especially for her. Photo: Barney Cheng
IOC

Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh may soon take on new role: Olympic committee member

The Everything Everywhere All at Once star was among eight people proposed as new additions to the International Olympic Committee.

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Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Explainer | The time Michelle Yeoh stepped away and Cynthia Khan stepped in

With action stars Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Rothrock unavailable to film In the Line of Duty 3 and In the Line of Duty 4, Cynthia Khan stepped in. Cast as a new character, she made the role her own.

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Hong Kong celebrities and icons

Profile | Isabella Leong was on the cusp of Hollywood. Then she met tycoon Richard Li

Macanese actress Isabella Leong called a halt to her acting career – one that had nearly put her on Hollywood’s map – when she began dating Richard Li, the younger son of Li Ka-shing.

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Isabella Leong Lok-sze promotes her 2014 appearance in a stage play. Photo: Felix Wong
SCMP Highlights

Michelle Yeoh’s marriage, China’s home-grown durians: 6 weekend reads you missed

From Michelle Yeoh’s marriage announcement to China’s take on Barbie, here are some articles you may have missed over the weekend.

Michelle Yeoh married long-time fiancé Jean Todt. Photo: Facebook/Michelle Yeoh

Michelle Yeoh and fiancé Jean Todt finally wed

Hong Kong entertainment

‘We are married’: Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh posts wedding photos online

Actress updates Facebook page with photos of her wedding, including one showing the couple exchanging rings.

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