She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new film-making talent. She trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in The Touch (2002), an English-language film she both starred in and produced. She has her own production company, Mythical Films. She turned down a role in a sequel to The Matrix (1999). She later became known to Western audiences through role in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). When she returned to acting, she became very popular w/ Chinese audiences. Even though they divorced in 1992, she's close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to his daughter. The film stars Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, and Chang Chen. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon & retired from acting. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 4 is a 2000 Chinese-language wuxia martial arts adventure film directed by Ang Lee and written for the screen by Wang Hui-ling, James Schamus, and Tsai Kuo-jung. She uses many dance moves in her films and does most of her own stunts. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and on-set trainers to prepare for martial arts action scenes. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then Michelle Yeoh. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in and the Miss Moomba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. A ballet dancer since 4, she moved to London to study at the Royal Academy as a teen. She's of Hokkien descent, speaking English and Malay before Chinese. She's the daughter of Janet Yeoh & Kian Teik Yeoh. Michelle Yeoh was born in Ipoh, Malaysia.
0 kommentar(er)
