Michelle Yeoh gets her own star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
SHAH ALAM - Oscar-winning Malaysian actress Tan Sri Michelle Yeoh will be receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The Ipoh-born actress is among the 30 honourees in the Class of 2024 who have been choosen to receive the stars, which include Black Panther actor, the late Chadwick Boseman.
The honourees were chosen from hundreds of nominations by the Walk of Fame selection committee.
Among other notable names are President of Marvel Studio Kevin Feige, Wonder Woman fame Gal Gadot, American Musican Gwen Stefani and many more.
Yeoh made history last month after becoming the first Malaysian and Asian to win the Best Actress award at the 95th Academy Awards.
The 60-year-old actress was honoured with the Best Actress in a Leading Role award for Everything Everywhere All at Once at Hollywood’s most prestigious award ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
The Hollywood veteran won over Academy voters with her complex take on Evelyn Wang, a Chinese American laundromat owner who is mired in a tax audit, stuck in a crumbling marriage and struggling to connect with her daughter Joy, and ends up traversing multiple universes.
Yeoh's humble beginnings started as as a child who wanted to learn dance and embraced ballet.
On a vacation while visiting family, her mother entered her in the Miss Malaysia contest without consulting her.
"I agreed to go to shut her up," a giggling Yeoh, who unwittingly won the beauty pageant, told a talk show.
A back injury made her give up her dancing career, but by the mid-1980s, she was using the body control she had learned in ballet to appear in action films alongside the likes of Jackie Chan.
Her global big break came in the James Bond installment "Tomorrow Never Dies" (1997), in which she played a Chinese spy opposite Pierce Brosnan, redefining the typical Bond girl.
That was followed by the massively successful "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," directed by Ang Lee, and "Memoirs of a Geisha" (2005), both alongside Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi.
With more than 50 credits over four decades, Yeoh has a busy upcoming slate, including three new installments of "Avatar" and the movie adaptation of the musical "Wicked," which will reunite her with "Crazy Rich Asians" director Jon Chu.
