PERSONALITY PROFILES

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DATO' MICHELLE YEOH : THE WORLD CLASS ACTRESS

Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng was born in Ipoh, Perak (Malaysia) on August 6, 1962. Her parents is a lawyer and MCA Politician, that is Janet Yeoh and Yeoh Kein Teik. She started to sudy ballet at the age of four years old. At 15 years old, she and her parents moved to England and later she studied at Royal Academy of Dance in England, majoring in Ballet. She later received a B.A degree in Creative Arts with a minor in Drama.

At the age of 21, in 1983, Yeoh won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant. She was also Malaysia's representative at the 1983 Miss World Pageant in London. From there, she appeared in a television commercial with Jackie Chan which caught the attention of a fledgling Hong Kong film production company, D & B Films.

She started her career in Hong Kong with a few commercials for Charle Jourdan, opposite action movie heroes Jackie Chan and Chow Yun Fat before being offered a film contract. In 1988, she retired from acting after marrying Dickson Poon and three years later, the couple divorced and Yeoh returned to acting in 1992. Her first movie after the comeback was "Police Story 3 : Supercorp which was partly shot in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Yeoh started her film career acting in action and martial arts films such as "The Heroic Trio" in 1993, and the Yuen Woo-Ping films, "Tai Chi Master" and "Wing Chun" in 1994. Yeoh has had no formal martial arts training and she relies on her dance training and instructors, and does many of her own stunts. Yeoh learned English and Malay before Cantonese, and cannot read Chinese characters. As she does not speak Mandarin, she learned the lines for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" phonetically.

She starred in the James Bond film, "Tomorrow Never Dies" as Wai Lin in 1997. Thereafter, she was offered the role of Seraph in the two sequels to "The Matrix", but she could not accept due to a scheduling conflict. In 2002, she produced her first English film, "The Touch" through her own production company, Mythical Films.

In 2005, Yeoh starred as the gfraceful Mameha in the film adaptation of "Memoirs of Geisha" and she continued her English-language work in 2007 with "Sunshine". In 2008, Michelle Yeoh also starred in the fantasy action film, "The Mummy : Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" with actors Brendan Fraser and Jet Li.

On 19 April 2001, Yeoh was awarded the Darjah Datuk Paduka Mahkota Perak (DPMP) which carries the title Dato' by Sultan Azlan Shah, the Sultan of Perak. The award was given in conjunction with the Sultan's 73rd birthday celebration.

On 25 November 2002, Yeoh was honoured as the outstanding Young Persons of the World (TOYP) (Cultural Achievement) by JCI (Junior Chamber International).

On 23 April 2007, President Jacques Chirac awarded her Knight of the Legion of Honour of France. She was also nominated at a BAFTA Film Award 2001 as a Best Actress by film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".