{"id":3134,"date":"2021-08-06T11:30:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T11:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/?p=3134"},"modified":"2023-10-09T16:00:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T20:00:35","slug":"happy-birthday-michelle-yeoh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2021\/08\/06\/happy-birthday-michelle-yeoh\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Michelle Yeoh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Asanat Odeyale<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Michelle Yeoh, a Chinese-Malaysian actress, was born on August 6, 1962. She rose to fame in the 1990s by starring in Hong Kong action films. However, she gained international recognition when she played Wai Lin the 1997 James Bond film,\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Tomorrow Never Dies<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and other martial arts films,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">such as\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Yeoh is\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">both a literal and figurative<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0symbol for strength and womanhood.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">As a former pageant queen and ballet dancer, she traded in her tiara\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and pointe shoes\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">for\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">air-kicks\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and became a profound martial artist<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0for her early roles<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">She counter<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ed<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0the stereotype of women being powerless\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">while also s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ol<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">id<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ifying<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0how women of color\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">also have a place in Hollywood.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">You can read more about Yeoh\u2019s lifetime achievements and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">amazing roles in her\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Elle\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">interview:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/a26238927\/michelle-yeoh-crazy-rich-asians-star-trek-discovery-interview\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/a26238927\/michelle-yeoh-crazy-rich-asians-star-trek-discovery-interview\/<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">H<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">appy\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Birthday Michelle Yeoh<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">! If you want to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">watch Yeoh\u2019s work, you can find these popular movies that she has starred\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in the AU Media Collection:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Tomorrow Never Dies (DVD 6423)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Crazy Rich Asians (DVD 16221)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (DVD 480)\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" data-aria-posinset=\"4\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Memoirs of a Geisha (DVD 1898)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Asanat Odeyale Michelle Yeoh, a Chinese-Malaysian actress, was born on August 6, 1962. 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However, she gained international recognition when she played Wai Lin the 1997 James Bond film,\u00a0Tomorrow Never Dies and other martial arts films,\u00a0such as\u00a0Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.\u00a0\u00a0 Yeoh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":3135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","9":"post-with-thumbnail","10":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3134"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3263,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions\/3263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}