Michelle Yeoh biography and movies
Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Moomba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on-set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes.She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does most of her own stunts and has been injured many times. Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon and retired from acting. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to Poon's daughter. When she returned to acting, she became very popular to Chinese audiences and she became known to western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) aka Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' directed by Ang Lee. She turned down a role in a sequel to The Matrix (1999).She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in The Touch (2002), an English language film she is both starring in and producing. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new filmmaking talent. She also wants to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.

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Rate: 5.3 Babylon A.D.

Year: 2008

Genres: Adventure, Thriller, Action

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz

Artists: Assistant to High Priestess, Souleymane Dicko, Fight Promoter, Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Lambert Wilson, Mark Strong, Charlotte Rampling, Joel Kirby, Jan Unger, Karl, Gary Cowan, Neolite Executive, Radek Bruna, Kid with Tattoos, David Belle, Abraham Belaga


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Rate: 5.3 Babylon A.D.

Year: 2008

Genres: Adventure, Thriller, Action

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz

Artists: Charlotte Rampling, Mark Strong, Joel Kirby, Souleymane Dicko, David Belle, Kid with Tattoos, Radek Bruna, Karl, Lambert Wilson, Michelle Yeoh, Vin Diesel, Jan Unger, Neolite Executive, Gary Cowan, Assistant to High Priestess, Abraham Belaga, Fight Promoter


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Rate: 6.9 The Children Of Huang Shi

Year: 2008

Genres: War, Drama

Director: Roger Spottiswoode

Artists: Matt Walker, Anastasia Kolpakova, Imai Hideaki, Lin Ji, Guang Li, Michelle Yeoh, Radha Mitchell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Yuelong Fang, Ruixiang Zhu, Xing Mang, Hostile Kempetai Officer, Shinichi Takashima, Sciichiro Hashimoto, Ping Su


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Rate: 5.3 Babylon A.D.

Year: 2008

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz

Artists: Lambert Wilson, Mark Strong, Vin Diesel, Charlotte Rampling, Michelle Yeoh


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Rate: 5.3 Babylon A.D.

Year: 2008

Genres: Sci-Fi, Adventure, Action, Thriller

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz

Artists: Michelle Yeoh, Charlotte Rampling, Vin Diesel, Mark Strong, Lambert Wilson


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Rate: 5.3 Babylon A.D.

Year: 2008

Genres: Thriller, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz

Artists: Michelle Yeoh, Charlotte Rampling, Lambert Wilson, Mark Strong, Vin Diesel


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Rate: 5.3 Babylon A.D.

Year: 2008

Genres: Thriller, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Action

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz

Artists: Lambert Wilson, Mark Strong, Vin Diesel, Charlotte Rampling, Michelle Yeoh


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Rate: 9.7 The Children Of Huang Shi

Year: 2008

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Roger Spottiswoode

Artists: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Yun-Fat Chow, Radha Mitchell, Michelle Yeoh, Guang Li


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Rate: 9.7 The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor

Year: 2008

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Director: Rob Cohen

Artists: Jet Li, Brendan Fraser, Michelle Yeoh, John Hannah, Maria Bello


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Rate: 9.7 Babylon A.D.

Year: 2008

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz

Artists: Mark Strong, Lambert Wilson, Mélanie Thierry, Michelle Yeoh, Vin Diesel


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Rate: 9.7 Babylon A.D.

Year: 2008

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz

Artists: Michelle Yeoh, Mélanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Vin Diesel, Mark Strong


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Rate: 9.7 Babylon A.D.

Year: 2008

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz

Artists: Lambert Wilson, Mélanie Thierry, Michelle Yeoh, Mark Strong, Vin Diesel


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Rate: 9.7 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Year: 2000

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Ang Lee

Artists: Sihung Lung, Chen Chang, Ziyi Zhang, Michelle Yeoh, Yun-Fat Chow


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Rate: 6.4 007 Tomorrow Never Dies

Year: 1997

Genres: Thriller, Adventure, Action

Director: Roger Spottiswoode

Artists: Michelle Yeoh, Jonathan Pryce, Pierce Brosnan, Teri Hatcher, Ricky Jay


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Rate: 6.4 Tomorrow Never Dies

Year: 1997

Genres: Adventure, Thriller, Action

Director: Roger Spottiswoode

Artists: Ricky Jay, Teri Hatcher, Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh


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