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	Michelle Yeoh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dato' Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng (Chinese: 楊紫瓊; pinyin: Yáng Zǐqióng; born August 6, 1962) is a Hong Kong-based actress and dancer, sometimes billed as "Michelle Khan".
		Yeoh is a Chinese Malaysian born in Ipoh, Malaysia.
		Yeoh stated that she was happy with the relationship as it was and that she would "inform everyone if she got married in the future." Todt and Yeoh met in June 2004 in a promotional event organized by Ferrari in Shanghai, China.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michelle_Yeoh (1025 words)

	Michelle Yeoh
		Yeoh returned to Malaysia in 1983 when a back injury ended her dancing career.
		Yeoh immediately became one of Hong Kong's biggest female action stars and was soon appearing in films at a dizzying rate.
		In 1998 MGM studios were in talks to have Yeoh return in her role for the next James Bond film, or perhaps develop a solo film instead.
	www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=6249 (528 words)

	Michelle Yeoh Photos - Michelle Yeoh News - Michelle Yeoh Information
		Michelle is a Malaysian born actress with training in classical dance and ballet.
		Michelle Yeoh: The reason why I decided to wait two years after the Bond movie, and to work with Ang Lee in a martial arts movie, is because I really believe that this genre deserves more respect and dignity than it's ever been given.
		Michelle was a Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2002.
	www.tv.com /michelle-yeoh/person/226446/summary.html (283 words)

	Michelle Yeoh
		Although unfamiliar with martial arts, Yeoh's former ballet training and an ravenous enthusiasm for proving her mettle, earned her the respect of filmmakers and the viewing public while she quickly learned the moves necessary to do just that.
		Possessing incredible drive and talent, Michelle Yeoh has rightly earned the respect of legions of fans who see in her a rare combination of grace, strength, beauty, and a ferocious tenacity to reach for the highest level of excellence within herself.
		Yeoh's latest film, The Touch in which she stars and produces was filmed in various parts of Asia and will be released sometime in 2002.
	www.kungfucinema.com /people/michelle_yeoh_choo-kheng.htm (764 words)

	DVD Review - Michelle Yeoh
		To Michelle it is very important to be comfortable with the people she works with, especially given the grade of danger she is putting herself into with the various martial arts and stunt sequences.
		Michelle Yeoh’s career is steadily going forward despite the time-outs she deliberately takes to make room for her family.
		Michelle Yeoh is clearly one of the most personable superstars around and on many occasions during this interview she was able to make it clear that she feels that her success is that of hard work and full commitment, things that do not come easily.
	www.dvdreview.com /html/dvd_review_-_michelle_yeoh.html (3881 words)

	Interview - Michelle Yeoh for "Memoirs of a Geisha"
		New York City, NY She may be one of China's biggest stars, but Michelle Yeoh, former Bond girl, is going onwards and upwards as one of the stars of Memoirs of a Geisha.
		While in the midst of her beauty queen chores, Yeoh took a vacation in Hong Kong where she was approached by D and B Films to make a commercial with action-comedy star Jackie Chan.
		Yeoh's dedication and willingness to work through pain and injuries quickly won her the respect of HK action producers, directors and stunt men.
	www.darkhorizons.com /news05/geisha3.php (3504 words)

	Michelle Yeoh Web Theatre: Michelle Yeoh Biography
		Michelle then started her ballet training when she was at the age of four years.
		When Michelle returned to Malaysia for the summer vacation in 1983, she did not have advance knowledge that her mother had entered her for the national beauty contest (by way of submitting photos of her for the perusal of the competition judges).
		Michelle's character is not the central focus, but "it is Yeoh who quietly holds the screen with her warmth, grace, and wit," as said in a film review.
	michelleyeoh.info /Bio/bio.html (3434 words)

	Asia Studios > Michelle Yeoh Interview
		Michelle Yeoh: You know for me, when I am doing a film, that character is me. The things that are being shown on film are supposed to be me and I truly enjoy doing that, because outside of that situation you can't do it in real life.
		Michelle Yeoh: You know, it's very hard to compare them because when you are looking at a Bond movie, you are talking about a $100 million production, and at that time when we made "Supercop" it was probably a $20 maybe $15 million production.
		Michelle Yeoh: (Laughs) When you have explosions, the fear happens because you are not in control of that stunt.
	www.asiastudios.com /interviews/members/michelleyeoh.html (4424 words)

	Michelle Yeoh - Biography
		Michelle, who was a tomboy and an athlete as a young girl, became a dancer and even received her Bachelor's Degree in dance and drama from London's Royal Academy of Dance.
		Michelle began appealing to a wide array of fans, men and women alike, and she quickly became a premiere action star in Asia.
		Michelle had a bit part in Clint Eastwood's film In The Line Of Duty and Magnificent Warriors, which ultimately increased her already established prestige as a martial artist and actress.
	www.biggeststars.com /StarBiography.do?id=723 (1227 words)

	Michelle Yeoh, Hong Kong's greatest female action star - Rob Larsen : DrunkenFist.com.
		Apparently trying to butter me up by giving me something fun to write about; or maybe just taking advantage of all the good things being said about Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the good people over at the Coolidge are putting together a fun couple of months in their midnight movie slot.
		The first is Michelle Yeoh's portrayal of Yim Wing-Chun (the woman who lent her name to the martial art style that Bruce Lee eventually made famous).
		She was supposed to be playing it close to vest (she's meant to be a pretty serious character), but she took it a little too far.
	www.drunkenfist.com /movies/hong_kong/michelle_yeoh.php (965 words)

	Hong Kong Girls With Guns
		Originally, Michelle was supposed to be doubled by a man for all her action scenes in "Yes, Madam!".
		Michelle had studied to be a ballerina, and her experience in dance proved useful in learning the martial arts skills needed for the screen.
		Michelle's action scenes in "TND" are in the same spirit as the GWG films, as evidenced by her martial arts sequences and the two-fisted sub-machine guns she wields.
	home.att.net /~chanfanatic/gwgmichelleyeoh.htm (911 words)

	Jackie Chan & Yuna
		Michelle se convierte así rápidamente en un Jackie Chan femenino, realizando todas sus escenas de acción y mejorando su kung fu.
		De hecho, al retirarse prematuramente, Michelle Yeoh evita interpretar siempre el papel de chica bonita que lucha, como Cynthia Khan (que la sucederá en la serie In The Line of Duty), que lentamente habría puesto definitivamente fin a carrera cinematográfica.
		Afortunadamente para sus admiradores (que son muy numerosos), en 1992 Michelle Yeoh, tras su divorcio y regresa al cine coprotagonizando Police Story III Supercop junto a Jackie Chan.
	groups.msn.com /JackieChanYuna/michelleyeoh.msnw (701 words)

	Michelle Yeoh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Yeoh's hair-raising high-speed motorcycle jump onto a moving train (she learned how to drive the motorbike the day before the stunt) was bested only by Chan's death-defying leap from a minaret to an airborne rope ladder hanging from a helicopter hundreds of feet above Kuala Lumpur.
		Yeoh was put in traction, and it was feared that she would never walk again.
		Once again, Yeoh's natural charisma, along with her effortless ability to dispatch bands of baddies, threatened to outclass the male lead.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P223709 (849 words)

	Michelle Yeoh @ Filmbug
		Michelle Yeoh was born Yeoh Choo Kheng in Ipoh, Malaysia, where she received primary and secondary education.
		Yeoh enrolled in the Royal Academy of Dance in London, where she attained the Advanced Level degree.
		In 1997, Yeoh co-starred in the box-office hit Tomorrow Never Dies for MGM, which was to become the top-grossing Bond film to date.
	www.filmbug.com /db/1569 (421 words)

	TIMEasia.com \| 'It's Emotional and Dramatic' \| 7/04/2000
		Michelle Yeoh is no stranger to action-packed films, but the going was tough in Ang Lee's surefire hit
		Yeoh: We [my production company] have had a lot of offers, but I decided as an actor that I needed to take on projects that inspire me. The roles didn't get me excited.
		Yeoh: People in front of the camera can be packaged in certain ways.
	www.time.com /time/asia/features/interviews/int.yeoh0704.html (1264 words)

	Michelle Yeoh - News, Pictures, MP3, Videos and Gossip
		'''Dato' Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng''' (; born August 6 1962) is a Hong Kong-based actress and dancer, sometimes billed as "Michelle Khan".
		Michelle's dream of being a prima ballerina was abruptly cut short by a spinal injury which she suffered during a ballet practicing session at her college years.
		Despite having no formal martial arts training, Yeoh is best known for her roles in action and martial arts movies (notably ''The Heroic Trio'' in 1993, and the Yuen Woo-ping films ''The Tai-Chi Master'' and ''Wing Chun'' in 1994).
	www.celebsoup.com /Michelle_Yeoh.html (447 words)

	Michelle Yeoh Web Theatre: Memoirs of a Geisha
		Michelle laughed when a reporter said that among all those Chinese names, she is the only one who definitely will appear on the stage.
		Michelle said she had a scene with Gong Li which was shot on a very cold day.
		Michelle mentioned that during her geisha training, the most difficult part was to learn to play shamisen, a lute like Japanese instrument.
	michelleyeoh.info /Movie/memoirsofageisha.html (15238 words)

	Michelle Yeoh cut from 'Fearless'
		The last time Yeoh appeared in a Jet Li movie was in 1993 when the pair fought side by side in Yuen Wo-ping's The Tai Chi Master.
		In other Michelle Yeoh news, the actress recently expressed interest in returning to the James Bond franchise during the recent premiere of Memoirs of a Geisha in London.
		Yeoh's character in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) was originally planned to reappear in The World is Not Enough (1999), but she turned the role down.
	www.kungfucinema.com /2006/011302.htm (391 words)

	Michelle Yeoh Biography
		Dato' Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng (Chinese pinyin Yáng Ziqióng born August 6, 1962) is a Hong Kong-based actress and dancer, sometimes billed as "Michelle Khan".
		Yeoh is a Malaysian Chinese born in Ipoh, Malaysia.
		Despite having no formal martial arts training, Yeoh is best known for her roles in action and martial arts movies (notably The Heroic Trio in 1993, Tai-Chi Master and Wing Chun in 1994).
	www.netkushi.com /articles/michelle-yeoh.php (927 words)

	Tribute to Michelle Yeoh
		Michelle Yeoh has entertained Hong Kong film fans for over a decade now.
		America has never seen a female action star like Michelle, and so it's anybody's guess on how well she will be recieved by the moviegoing public...I hope that we get to see a lot of her.
		Even Michelle was amazed that she completed that movie in one piece.
	members.tripod.com /~rame/yeoh.html (553 words)

	Salon: "Supercop" as Woman Warrior
		Lithe, ferocious, awesome, Yeoh's performance is both summation and pinnacle of the "Woman Warrior" figure in Hong Kong cinema -- which is itself a continuum of the Chinese myth and folk history that gave it form.
		Born in Malaysia, Yeoh studied ballet in England and later won a Miss Malaysia crown in a beauty pageant.
		In the United States to complete her dubbing and to promote the film, Yeoh is still recovering from an 18-foot fall sustained in her last film, "The Story of Ah Gum, Stuntwoman": "Instead of landing on my feet, I landed on my head.
	www.salon.com /weekly/yeoh960722.html (1420 words)

	MY Favorite Actress
		I know that Michelle is one fine and responsible actress, and that made her MY Favorite.
		Gallery 3 is the library of Michelle Yeoh movie pictures wherein the shots are mostly from movie stills.
		Gallery 5 is a set of Michelle Yeoh photographs taken earlier and before her career.
	www.michelleyeoh.netfirms.com (771 words)

	Michelle Yeoh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Michelle Yeoh (raised as Yeoh Choo-Kheng) was born in Malaysia in 1962.
		As a teenager, she excelled at many sports but her heart was in ballet, which she went to study at the Royal Academy of Dance in London, where she also received a degree in Creative Arts.
		Supercop was a huge success, becoming Asia's top-grossing movie of the year and gaining Yeoh star status all over the world as she held her own (some would even say surpassed) her male co-star.
	www.hkfilm.net /yeoh.htm (490 words)

	AskMen.com - Michelle Yeoh
		Although Michelle Yeoh is a huge star in most Asian countries, she is still not a household name on this continent.
		Michelle Yeoh was born Yeoh Chu-Kheng in Ipoh, Malaysia on August 6, 1962.
		A tomboy and an athlete as a toddler, she became interested in ballet at the age of 4.
	www.askmen.com /women/actress/15_michelle_yeoh.html (425 words)

	Cult Sirens: Michelle Yeoh
		Michelle was born on August 6, 1962, in Ipoh, Malaysia.
		Worth noting is the fact that the company producing the film was controlled by Dickson Poon, with whom Michelle would begin a romantic relationship, as she was convincing herself that she could hold her own in the many fight scenes...
		After too many bruises and fractures, Michelle chose to take it more smoothly from then on and was eventually cast in a purely dramatic role in 1997 for THE SOONG SISTERS, alongside Maggie Cheung and Vivian Wu.
	www.cultsirens.com /yeoh/yeoh.htm (1057 words)

	Michelle Yeoh - Famous Chinese People - Chinese
		Dato' Michelle Yeoh (zh-cpc=楊紫瓊p=Y?ng Zǐqi?ng; born August 6 1962) is a Hong Kong-based actoractress and dancer, sometimes billed as "Michelle Khan".
		Despite having no formal martial arts training, Yeoh is best known for her roles in action and martial arts movies (notably The Heroic Trio 1993, Wing Chun 1994 and Police Story 3).
		In 2001, Yeoh was given the title of dato' by the Sultan of Perak, her native state.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Michelle_Yeoh (351 words)

	INTERVIEW: "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" Star, Michelle Yeoh
		Michelle Yeoh: If you read a lot of Chinese literature, there has always been very strong women figures -- warriors, swordswomen -- who defended honor and loyalty with the men.
		Yeoh: The emotional element, the dramatic side of it.
		Yeoh: I had never any doubt that he could pull this off.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_Yeoh_Michelle_001207.html (634 words)

	Cinema Strikes Back - Covering the World of Film » People: Michelle Yeoh
		Her second lover’s wife (Yeoh) is behind the scenes, pulling the strings.
		Michelle Yeoh briefly talks about “Sunshine”; but mainly about “Memoirs of a Geisha”; and a “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” mention in a brand new interview with Ricky Lo at The Philippine Star.
		I’m a huge fan of Michelle Yeoh and seeing her in a sci-fi film is a pretty intriguing rarity.
	www.cinemastrikesback.com /?cat=128 (1172 words)

	Michelle Yeoh
		She was one of the highest paid actresses at the time.
		The marriage ended after a couple of years, and with "Supercop" starring Chan, Michelle resumed her career.
		Her popularity had begun to fade when she was cast in "Tomorrow Never Dies." Since then, she has appeared mainly in ads, while waiting for her next script.
	www.angelfire.com /film/lwhlee/yeoh.htm (145 words)

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