Michelle Yeoh (Actor)

Reviews of Michelle Yeoh Movies

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Movies starring Michelle Yeoh have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 62%.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - released in 2000 - is Michelle Yeoh's highest rated movie, with a score of 83% based on 729 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Michelle Yeoh is The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor - released in 2008 - with a score of 41% based on 884 reviews.

Actor Biography

Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng is a Hong Kong-based Malaysian 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, 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.

She is credited as Michelle Khan in some of her earlier films. This alias was chosen by the D&B studio who thought it might be more marketable to international and western audiences. Yeoh later preferred using her real name.

Michelle Yeoh has acted in films with Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Benedict Wong, Maggie Cheung and Sam Wong Ming-Sing.

Michelle Yeoh has worked with these film directors: Yuen Woo-Ping, Jackie Chan, Paul Feig and Jon M. Chu.