Michelle Yeoh

Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng is a Malaysian actress who rose to fame with frequent roles in 1990s Hong Kong action films and is best known internationally for her roles in the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies and the Chinese language martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). 
She portrays Karina Mogue, the scientist who helped Parker Selfridge in Avatar 3.
==Biography==
She was born in Ipoh, Malaysia, to a local Malaysian Chinese family of mixed Hokkien and Cantonese descent. Her parents are Janet Yeoh and Yeoh Kian Teik, a lawyer and MCA politician.
She was keen on dance from an early age, beginning ballet at the age of four. At the age of 15, she moved with her parents to the United Kingdom, where she was enrolled in a boarding school. Yeoh later studied at the Royal Academy of Dance in London, majoring in ballet. However, a spinal injury prevented her from becoming a professional ballet dancer, and she transferred her attention to choreography and other arts. She later received a BA degree in Creative Arts with a minor in Drama. 
==Filmography==
*Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)
*Air Force (2014)
*Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
*Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)
*Wicked: Part One (2024)
*Avatar 3 (2025)
*Avatar 4 (2029)
*Avatar 5 (2031)
== Trivia ==
* Michelle Yeoh and Kate Winslet were the only actresses in Avatar that won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
*Michelle Yeoh and Avatar 3 co-star David Thewlis played a married couple in The Lady, as Aung San Suu Kyi and Michael Aris.
Category:Actors