Michelle yeoh

Although everyone believes that she is Chinese, the truth is that the beautiful oriental actress Michelle Yeoh was born in the Malaysian city of Ipoh, Perak, on August 6, 1962, and her real name is Choo-Kheng Yeoh. Of course, her ethnic origins are Chinese, but the truth is that before learning to speak Cantonese, the girl launched herself with Malay and English. Well, one was the language of the country where she was born, and the other was necessary in the London environment to which she moved with her family when she was a teenager. Her purpose was none other than to study this art at the Royal Academy of Dance, which she had been practicing since she was little; but an injury prevented her from advancing as much as she would have wanted in the dancing world, which perhaps made her pay more attention to her dramatic training. Back in her country, she became Miss Malaysia at the age of 21. but she could not become Miss World, although she did not lack merits; and when she moved to Melbourne, Australia, she too was awarded a title for her splendid appearance, that of Miss Moomba.

His choreographic training suited him to debut in commercials in the company of ineffable Hong Kong actors such as Jackie Chan and Chow Yun-fat , known for his martial arts movies. It was 1984 and the Hong Kong company D&B saw that they had a pearl in their hands that they had to cultivate, so after some hesitation in her stage name –she appeared credited as Michelle Khan–, in the end she became Michelle Yeoh for the movies, that is, he kept his last name with the classic Anglo-Saxon name. Among Yeoh’s early films are The Return of the Brawlers (1985) and Royal Warriors .(1986). The actress met her husband, businessman Dickson Poon, in D&B, and in fact abandoned his fledgling career to get married in 1988. But after the divorce, Yeoh resumed his trade, and he would do so with better fortune than he had achieved up to that moment. . Thus, she had an important role alongside Jackie Chan and Maggie Cheung in Supercop (1992). With Tony Leung , another prestigious actor, she did the following year Invincible Sword. Interestingly, the actress never received any formal training in martial arts, which hasn’t stopped her from having a name that’s easily associated with the genre. In fact, Michelle drags the fame of personally doing all the risky scenes in her movies. One of Yeoh’s most interesting and unknown titles in the West is The Soong Sisters (1997), an intelligent look at the history of China in the 20th century through the authentic avatars of three sisters.

The jump to Western cinema came from the hand of 007, with Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), with a Bond warrior girl to take up arms, from the Chinese army. Praise rained down on Yeoh from the hand of her licensed-to-kill agent, as Pierce Brosnan said of her that she was “serious and committed to her work.” Of course, she could not do the risky scenes as she used to, it seems that the studio raised their hands to their heads when she proposed the idea, so that she had to settle for “distributing firewood” in the fights.

It is clear that the most important title of Yeoh’s career is called Tiger & Dragon (2000), a film of the wuxia genre, in which China, Taiwan and Hong Kong worked side by side. Ang Lee was behind this kind of magical slant-eyed western, belonging to the so-called wuxia genre, so popular in the Far East, but which managed to become popular all over the world thanks to such a hypnotic film. In addition to Yeoh’s, who was nominated for many awards, including the Bafta, the names of his co-stars Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun-Fat also began to sound.

However, and despite what one might believe, Yeoh’s career from that moment on was not like a rocket. El talismán (2002) had an international cast behind it and the director of photography for Tigre & Dragón , Peter Pau , but it was certainly not the same. In the end, the actress in the West became a reference for when eastern actresses with skills for the action genre were needed. So she played Japanese in Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), based on the popular best-seller by Arthur Golden , where her Chinese “colleagues” Zhang Ziyi and Gong Li were not missing ; Rob Marshall ‘s neat filmIt didn’t spark the same interest as the original, but it was a prestigious title.

It is necessary to admit that it is a pity to observe the uneven quality of the tapes in which Yeoh has intervened. In 2007 he shot Sunshine under the orders of Danny Boyle , a science fiction film that is not among the best of the British director. And for Asif Kapadia he made Far North , a strange and icy tale.

After signing up for commercial success in 2008 with success in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor , the franchise starring Brendan Fraser , and with less impact in Babylon , together with the “brownhead” Vin Diesel , he took part in a dramatic film that takes place in China, The children of Huang Shi , during the years of the Japanese occupation, around an orphanage. In 2010 he has filmed in China, but without being disgusted by Hollywood cinema, since he has lent his voice to the animated film Kung Fu Panda 2 . Who could put her back in the limelight is Luc Besson , who is going to direct her in The Lady, biopic about the Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi.