- Yeoh condemned East Week," a racy Hong Kong tabloid on Friday for publishing a topless photograph of a local actress taken when she had reportedly been kidnapped 12 years ago. (November 2, 2002)
- (1997) Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World.
- A 1983 Miss Malaysia, she got her start in acting in a commercial with Jackie Chan.
- As a beginner in Hong Kong, she could not read Cantonese and could not speak it very well, so she hid behind her action long enough to learn the language.
- Fought her way to the top in the male-dominated genre of Hong Kong action films, where she has been known for years as the queen of martial arts.
- Her Cantonese name was Yeung Ji-king.
- Michelle studied in Malaysia while she was growing up and she received her Bachelor's degree in Dance and Drama from London's Royal Academy of Dance.
- One of the only female stars whom Jackie Chan lets do her own stunts.
- Was among the eight jury members joining jury president David Lynch to judge the 2002 Festival de Cannes.
- She has torn ligaments, cracked ribs, and dislocated a shoulder in addition to a messed up neck vertebrae. Strangely however, she has never actually broken a bone. She has been blacklisted by all of the insurance companies in Hong Kong because of this.
- She is the highest paid and most popular Asian female action star.
- Surname, Yeoh is pronounced you.
- She did not speak Mandrin, and the script of WO HU CANG LONG (2000) was presented to her phonetically with help from Mandrin-speaking crew members - her Malaysian accent can be heard throughout.
- Yeoh tore her ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) during the shooting of an early fighting sequence in WO HU CANG LONG and had to be flown to America for knee surgery. She returned to the set at different times to film non-action scenes until the knee had recovered.
- She did almost all her own stunts in TOMORROW NEVER DIES (1997).
- Was nominated for Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1998 for SONG JIA HUANG CHAO and for Best New Performer in 1986 for HUANG GU SHI JIE. She also was nominated for MTV Movie Award for Best Fight in 1998 for TOMORROW NEVER DIES.
- Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role at BAFTA Awards for CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (2001)
- Nominated for Best Fight at MTV Movie Awards for TOMORROW NEVER DIES (1998)
Quotes- "The most important thing is that you have really good friends and family, and when you go back to them, it's like 'what?'. You carry on as who you are."
Awards- MTV Style Awards (in Shanghai): Actress of the Year (2003)
- ShoWest Convention: ShoWest Award - International Star of the Year (2001)
- Asian American International Film Festival: Asian Media Award (1998)
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