Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng PSM is a Malaysian actress who was born on 6 August 1962. In the beginning, she appeared as Michelle Khan in her Hong Kong films, she gained popularity in the 1990s as a star of action films in which she executed her stunts.
Yeoh had a voice role in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023). Further, she appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021). Yeoh played a supporting role in the romantic comedies Crazy Rich Asians (2018) and Last Christmas (2019).
Quick Info
| REAL NAME | Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng |
| NICKNAME | Michelle Yeoh |
| BORN | 6 August 1962 |
| AGE | 61 years old (2023) |
| BIRTHPLACE | Ipoh, Perak |
| NATIONALITY | Malaysian |
| PROFESSION | Actor |
| NET WORTH | $40 million |
| SPOUSE | Jean Todt |
| HEIGHT | 5 feet 4 inches (164cm) |
How was the early life of Michelle Yeoh?
Janet Yeoh and Yeoh Kian-teik welcomed Yeoh into the world on August 6, 1962, in Ipoh, Perak. Her father founded “Sri Maju” in 1975 and was a senator for Malaysia from 1959 to 1969. Despite having Cantonese and Hokkien ancestry, she was able to understand some Malaysian Cantonese and spoke English as a child.
When Yeoh was 4 years old, she was interested in ballet dance. She attended the all-girls secondary school at Main Convent Ipoh. Yeoh moved to the UK with her parents when she was 15. She began her ballet dancing training thereafter enrolling in The Hammond School in Chester. In 1983, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Manchester Metropolitan University.
Michelle Yeoh Personal Life
From 1988 to 1992, Yeoh was married to Dickson Poon, a well-known Hong Kong businessman who owned companies like Harvey Nichols and Charles Jourdan. She began dating Jean Todt in 2004. On July 26, 2004, the couple got engaged. She and Todt currently reside in Geneva, Switzerland as of 2019. They revealed that Yeoh and Todt got married in Geneva on July 27, 2023.
Michelle Yeoh is well-known for her dedication to social causes and her charitable endeavors. She has worked to raise awareness of issues like poverty, education, and environmental conservation while working as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Programme.
Yeoh has also participated in campaigns to promote gender equality and end violence against women. She is a human rights advocate.
Michelle Yeoh career
Yeoh started her acting career in Hong Kong in the middle of the 1980s. Yeoh made appearances in action movies that highlighted her martial arts skills. Her on-screen charisma and athleticism made her one of the industry’s most sought-after actresses in a short time. In the 1992 James Bond movie “Tomorrow Never Dies”, Yeoh played the Chinese secret agent Wai Lin.
Yeoh debuted in the Memoirs of a Geisha movie in 2005 as Mameha, and she continued to the English language in 2007 with Sunshine. Yeoh costarred with Brendan Fraser and Jet Li in the fantasy action movie The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor in 2008. She played Aung San Suu Kyi in Luc Besson’s 2011 film The Lady.
Yeoh played family matriarch Eleanor Young in Jon M. Chu’s Crazy Rich Asians (2018), which starred Constance Wu and Henry Golding and was a film adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s book of the same name. Carlos Aguilar of TheWrap described her performance as “convincingly subdued”. She played “Santa,” the owner of a Christmas-themed store, in the 2019 film Last Christmas.
In Destin Daniel Cretton’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, a Marvel Studios production, Yeoh appeared as Ying Nan. September 3, 2021, was the day the movie was released in theaters. Yeoh’s role as the lead actor in Ark: The Animated Series was made public at the 2020 Game Awards.
How much is Michelle Yeoh worth?
Michelle Yeoh is a popular Malaysian actress who has a net worth of $40 million US dollars. Michelle Yeoh attended the Royal Academy of Dance in London. She won the Queen of the Pacific pageant and the Miss Malaysia competition when she was 20 years old. Yeoh participated in the Miss World competition in London the same year but didn’t win.
Yeoh possesses an amazing collection of real estate, including some of the priciest residences in the world, including ones in Malaysia, Hong Kong, and London. Michelle is a car passionate who owns an amazing collection of vehicles that includes a Ferrari 488 valued at over $284,700 and a Maserati Levante worth over $80,000.
