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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
Philanthropist and Carnet Jewellery founder Michelle Ong has been creating wearable art for her discerning clients since 1998. Photo: Handout
Style Edit

Style Edit: Carnet Jewellery founder Michelle Ong crafts timeless wearable art

Celebrities have graced the silver screen and red carpet in Carnet’s natural diamond pieces, while Ong herself is also a philanthropist and founded the Hong Kong charity First Initiative Foundation.

Chinese language cinema

Chinese social media reacts to news of Ne Zha 2’s English version

Hong Kong

How Girls with Guns movies made stars of Michelle Yeoh and Maggie Cheung

Editor's Letter

This week in PostMag: Girls with Guns and the peak of Japanese luxury

Dive into Hong Kong action films of yesteryear, take a moped ride through rural Guizhou and bask in the simple refinement of ‘Jaxury’.

The cover of this week’s Post Magazine print edition. Illustration: Naomi Chan
Chinese culture

How mahjong helped a Chinese-American connect more deeply to her roots

Mahjong became a big part of Nicole Wong’s life after learning it in her 20s. Now she’s written a book on its rules across the Asian diaspora.

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Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Recap | Hong Kong cinema legends and greats open up about their careers

What’s it like working with Michelle Yeoh, Chow Yun-fat, Jackie Chan, Dwayne Johnson, John Woo and Wong Kar-wai? These film and TV legends tell all.

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The Philippines

Duterte’s arrest sparks Philippine disinformation frenzy targeting ICC judges

Duterte’s ICC arrest sparked a wave of disinformation, with fake news and fabricated quotes flooding Philippine social media, potentially affecting his interim release.

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A supporter of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte displays his portrait as they gather in front of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, The Netherlands, on March 14. Photo: EPA-EFE
American cinema

Michelle Yeoh on her ‘liberating’ role in Star Trek: Section 31

Star Trek: Discovery spin-off film sees Oscar winner reprise her dual role as the virtuous Captain Georgiou and ruthless Empress Georgiou.

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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

From star’s candid reflections on infertility to North Korea’s potential troop deployment in Ukraine, read more of our latest news from Asia.

Michelle Yeoh, offering candid reflections on infertility and acceptance, said she has no regrets. Photo: AP
Malaysia

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

Yeoh’s candid reflection on infertility and acceptance offers a poignant perspective on navigating life’s challenges, and she has no regrets.

Michelle Yeoh arrives at the 10th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony on April 13 at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. Photo: AP
Heidi Klum

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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.

Sammo Hung at an interview with the Post in Hong Kong, in March, 2024. The martial arts film icon reflected on his glittering career, which he spent ‘guessing what would become successful’. Photo: Xiaomei Chen. Hair: Perry @ GHD Styling Team. Makeup: Guerlain Makeup Team
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

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

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.

Freed CIA spy John Downey walks from mainland China into Hong Kong in 1973, a moment recalled by China scholar Jerome Cohen in one of our most popular long reads of 2023. See which other Post Magazine stories engaged readers most in 2023. Photo: ISD
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.

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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Sammo Hung in “Ip Man 2” (2010).
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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