Michelle Yeoh

Michelle Yeoh (楊紫瓊) is a Malaysian actress. In 1983 she won the Miss Malaysia World beauty contest. She was Malaysia's representative at the Miss World 1983 pageant in London, where she placed eighteenth. She made her acting debut in 1984 with the film The Owl vs Bombo. In 1987, Yeoh married her first husband Dickson Poon, a co-founder of D&B Films, and decided to retire from acting. After five years of marriage, Yeoh divorced Poon and returned to acting with Police Story 3: Super Cop (1992). Yeoh initially used the pseudonym Michelle Khan, a stage name selected by D&B Films for its potential appeal to international and Western audiences. She changed her stage name back to Michelle Yeoh when she started her Hollywood career with the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies. In 2004, Yeoh met Jean Todt, a French motor racing executive, in Shanghai during a publicity event for Ferrari. They became engaged later that same year. They got married in 2023.