Michelle Yeoh

essential information

Early experience

On August 6, 1962, Michelle Yeoh was born into a Chinese family in Ipoh, Malaysia, with a superior family environment. Michelle Yeoh began to learn ballet at the age of four. She often performed on the stage and aspired to become Margo fangting. Michelle Yeoh also studied painting and piano. She was also interested in sports, especially swimming and badminton. As a teenager, she represented Malaysia in diving competitions. Besides, Michelle Yeoh also likes mountain skiing and horse riding.

In 1977, Michelle Yeoh followed her parents to England, where she was sent to a boarding school. He later majored in ballet at the Royal Academy of dance in London. Later, due to spinal injury, he was unable to become a professional ballerina and transferred to dance and art minor.

In 1982, Michelle Yeoh received her degree in creative arts and minor arts. After receiving her bachelor's degree, she continued to study in the UK.

In 1983, Michelle Yeoh, who graduated from the Royal Dance Academy and returned to Malaysia, participated in the selection of Miss Malaysia and won the championship. In the same year, she was elected "Miss Melbourne" in Melbourne, Australia.

Acting experience

In 1984, Michelle Yeoh and Jackie Chan shot an advertisement for the guy Laroche watch. Later, they shot another advertisement for the guy Laroche watch with Chow Yun fat. In February of the same year, Michelle Yeoh signed a contract to become an actor of Debao film company, which was founded by Pan Disheng and Hong Jinbao. After arriving in Hong Kong, Michelle Yeoh began to learn Cantonese. Later, she learned Putonghua because of her shooting needs. In the same year, Michelle Yeoh took part in her first film and co starred with Hong Jinbao, Lin Zixiang and ye Dexian in owl and Dumbo. In the play, she played a weak teacher who was always bullied by her classmates. In order to play the first action film "Royal elder martial sister", Michelle Yeoh went to Hong's class to practice martial arts for half a year, practicing martial arts, playing sandbags and kicking every day.

In 1985, Michelle Yeoh starred in her second film, the Royal elder martial sister, where she personally performed dangerous actions such as wearing glass. With this film, Michelle Yeoh nominated the Best Newcomer Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards.

In 1986, in order to help Michelle Yeoh open up the Asian market, Debao film company invited Japanese movie star Hiroyuki Shinda to play together with Michelle Yeoh in the sequel "Royal warrior".

In February 1988, Michelle Yeoh married pan Disheng, a Hong Kong tycoon, after she finished making the movie "Tongtian robber".

In 1991, after her divorce, Michelle Yeoh came back to make a film again, shooting "Police Story 3, super police", and personally completed the difficult actions in the film.

In 1993, Michelle Yeoh released six action films, including the science fiction action film "three swordsmen of the Orient" and its sequel "biography of modern heroes" with Anita Mui and Maggie Cheung, the work "butterfly sword of new meteor" co starring with Tony Leung and Donnie Yen, the film "Yongchun" co starring with Donnie Yen and Xu Shaoqiang, and the film "Yongchun" co starring with Jet Li and Qian Xiaohao He played Taijiquan themed film "taijizhang Sanfeng" and martial arts comedy "martial arts seven princesses" by his partners Zhang Weijian and Liu Songren.

In 1995, when shooting the movie a Jin's story, directed by Xu Anhua, which shows his martial arts career, he jumped from an 18 meter bridge and broke his cervical spine, seriously injured. At the end of the film, the subtitle "pay homage to Michelle Yeoh and the martial arts teacher who has contributed to Hong Kong Films" is printed.

In 1997, when shooting the western classic 007 film Empire tomorrow, the bond girl no longer acts as bond's foil, doll and vase like role of desire. She is bond's partner. Together, they defeated the conspiracy of media tycoons to create war in the South China Sea and created a new international image of Chinese women. In the same year, Michelle Yeoh filmed the Song Dynasty directed by Zhang wanting, and nominated the best supporting actress in the Hong Kong Film Awards. On April 1, 1999, the movie star moon fairy tale was released.

In 2000, after her role in Ang Lee's Oscar winning film Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon, 38 year old Michelle Yeoh began her transformation and took over such literary works as Memoirs of a geisha and children of Huangshi.

In 2001, he cooperated with Zhong Zaisi to form a mythology film company, starring in and supervising the production of the film "Legend of heaven".

In 2004, Michelle Yeoh starred in "Eagle woman" released, the first scene of the film is Michelle Yeoh riding a heavy motorcycle over the Great Wall. In the same year, Michelle Yeoh accepted John Woo's proposal to shift her focus to the United States.

In 2005, Michelle Yeoh cooperated with Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi in the Japanese themed film "Memoirs of a Geisha", which is a literary film supervised by Spielberg.

In 2007, Michelle Yeoh co starred with Batman Scarecrow Sirian Murphy and US captain Chris Evans in the science fiction action movie "solar Holocaust," in which she played an astronaut. In addition, Michelle Yeoh made the documentary film "far north" and brought it to the Venice Film Festival.

In 2008, Michelle Yeoh partnered Chow Yun fat in the Hollywood movie children of Yellowstone, Jet Li in Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, and van diesel in Babylon chronicle.

In 2010, Michelle Yeoh and John Woo collaborated to shoot "sword rain", which is another martial arts film after "Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon".

In 2011, Michelle Yeoh voiced Yang Xiangu in Kung Fu Panda 2 and was interviewed by Aung San Suu Kyi for her starring role in Aung San Suu Kyi.

In 2012, he supervised the production of the documentary "green footprint" and won the "outstanding Asian Film Awards" the following year.

In 2014, Michelle Yeoh and Donnie Yen co filmed crouching tiger, Hidden Dragon 2 directed by Yuan Heping, which is the third time that she and Donnie Yen have cooperated.

In 2015, he joined Netflix as a circulation character in the second season of its original series Marco Polo.

In 2016, he starred in the 3D myth comedy "the East China Sea". In April of the same year, it appeared on the cover of tmagazine.

On December 21, 2018, his special action movie "Ye Wen waizhuan: Zhang Tianzhi" was released.

In 2019, he will star in the second season of Star Trek derivative series Star Trek: discovery. In the same year, he confirmed his role in the movie Avatar 2, playing Dr. Karina Mogg.

In 2020, he joined the dubbing lineup of paramount's cartoon "the apprentice of the tiger". Starring in the action film gunpowder milkshake, which will be released in 2021.

Personal life

family

Michelle Yeoh's mother, Tan Huizhen, father, Yang Jiande and younger brother, Yang Nanri. His grandfather Yang Jinkun founded Malaysia JINDA bus company in the 1930s. His father Yang Jiande studied law in London when he was young. After returning from his studies, he worked as a professional lawyer while helping his father run the company. Later, he was canonized as Datuk. He served as chairman of Malaysia industrial and Commercial Sports leisure club and consultant of thunderbolt Fujian Association. He was also active in Malaysia, He is one of the party elders. In November 2014, Michelle Yeoh's father, Yang Jiande, died at the age of 89. Talking about her father's life, Michelle Yeoh praised her father as a good father. She never asked her children to follow his steps and work as a lawyer like him. Instead, she gave her children great freedom. Her father had a great influence on Michelle. She said, "my father is the most important man in my life!"

love

In 1984, Michelle Yeoh met pan Disheng, a Hong Kong businessman, through her friend's introduction. In 1985, they fell in love. In February 1988, Michelle Yeoh and pan Disheng got married. At the same time, they quit the film industry at Pan's request. In November 1991, the two divorced peacefully due to incompatibility.

In 1995, Michelle Yeoh fell in love with Yang Bingliang, and their relationship was exposed when she was injured and admitted to hospital in October 1995 when she filmed a Jin's story. In 1997, Michelle Yeoh went to Hollywood to shoot the Empire of tomorrow. The two broke up because they got together less and left more.

In June 1999, Michelle Yeoh was engaged to Alan, an American cardiologist who graduated from Harvard Medical School. However, because Alan asked Michelle Yeoh to quit the film industry and live in the United States, Michelle Yeoh voluntarily terminated her engagement in January 2000 after repeated consideration.

In 2000, Michelle Yeoh got to know Zhong Zaisi, President of Huanya film company, and later developed into a lover. The mythological film company they run together produced "Legend of the heavenly vein" and "Flying Eagle", and broke up in 2004.

Michelle Yeoh and Todt have been dating since 2004. The next year, she was photographed with a blue diamond ring on her ring finger. The man admitted that she was engaged. However, Michelle Yeoh did not respond positively. She did not say that she would marry Todt until 2013. On February 28, 2015, Michelle Yeoh and her fiance Jean Todt revealed that the wedding date will be 2015 when they both attended the Roberto Cavalli autumn and winter 2015 fashion show in Milan.

On June 20, 2015, Michelle Yeoh and FIA president FIA fiance Jean Todd showed up in a fairly F4 car race, and then hugged Schumacher's son for a photo.

friendship

Michelle Yeoh and her good friend Anita Mui worked together in the three heroes of the Orient, and they are also close friends on screen. Michelle Yeoh and Anita Mui got to know each other through their mutual friend Liu Peiji. They are similar in character and are as good as old friends at first sight. They sing together. When Michelle Yeoh can't understand the simplified subtitles under KTV, Anita Mui translates sentence by sentence in her ear, so that Michelle Yeoh can enjoy singing aloud. They danced together, from late night to early morning, hot to dawn. Michelle Yeoh refuses to see a doctor. Anita Mui forces her to have an examination. Before Anita Mui hesitated to go for treatment, Michelle Yeoh, who was filming in Beijing, said

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