Michelle Yeoh. Photo: AFP

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  • Hong Kong business magnate and movie producer Dickson Poon met the actress during filming for Yes, Madam in 1985 – the pair married in 1988 and never had children
  • Despite divorcing after just 4 years, the Oscar-winning Everything Everywhere All at Once star remains close with her first husband’s family – a business dynasty that operates Harvey Nichols and Brooks Brothers

Directed by Raman Hui and starring the voices of Michelle Yeoh, Henry Golding and Brandon Soo Hoo, The Tiger’s Apprentice is a messy, unfocused animation that cherry-picks from Chinese mythology.

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Michelle Yeoh plays the mother to Bruce, an aspiring comedian, and, Charles, an enforcer for their father, a triad boss in Taiwan. When Charles joins his mother and sibling in the US, violence ensues.

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Upcoming Netflix action drama with Michelle Yeoh, The Brothers Sun, is all about family, according to the Oscar winner’s two younger co-stars. They talk about how her motherly presence eased their nerves.

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The life of Barney Cheng, fashion designer who’s dressed Michelle Yeoh among others, China’s release of a jailed CIA spy, a biohacker’s extreme regime – long reads in Post Magazine you loved in 2023.

Ah Kam, a 1996 film by Ann Hui starring Michelle Yeoh and Sammo Hung, combined realistic drama, melodrama and triad action. Seen as experimental, it was overshadowed by an injury Yeoh sustained on set.

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Actress awarded honorary doctoral degree from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in recognition of her success in film industry, advocacy work.

Michael Wong’s early films in Hong Kong saw the Chinese-American actor treated like a foreigner, and typecast as a cop after starring as one in the Michelle Yeoh vehicle Royal Warriors.

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Actor, producer, martial artist – Sammo Hung has loomed large in Hong Kong’s film industry since the 1960s. We bet you don’t know about some aspects of his long movie career.

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A regular at Paris Fashion Week for 15 years and loved by Michelle Yeoh, Taiwanese label Shiatzy Chen has been at the forefront of Chinese design since its founding in 1978.

Michelle Yeoh is a Hollywood darling now, but Tomorrow Never Dies and Memoirs of a Geisha, two of her early films made in the United States, did not bring the Hong Kong action heroine lasting success there.

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Hong Kong fashion designer Barney Cheng tells Kate Whitehead about growing up in a huge family, getting culture shock in a Canadian Christian school, and rubbing shoulders with the fabulously rich.

With action stars Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Rothrock unavailable to film In the Line of Duty 3 and In the Line of Duty 4, Cynthia Khan stepped in. Cast as a new character, she made the role her own.

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Macanese actress Isabella Leong called a halt to her acting career – one that had nearly put her on Hollywood’s map – when she began dating Richard Li, the younger son of Li Ka-shing.

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Gilbert Yeung Kei-lung, kingpin of the Hong Kong nightlife scene, digs into the archives of his Wyndham Street club in preparation for its delayed 20th anniversary celebrations.

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts features the voice of Michelle Yeoh and a change in scenery from the usual cityscape alien robot battles – but do not expect this sequel to be any less tedious.

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American Born Chinese from Disney+, whose star-studded cast includes Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan, is an entertaining high-school-set affair that tackles issues of Asian-American representation.

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Disney+ series American Born Chinese, starring Michelle Yeoh, Ben Wang and Daniel Wu, mixes teen angst and supernatural myths as it follows an Asian-American student in suburban California.

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Oscar-winning actress praises Malaysia’s multicultural society, where different ethnic groups ‘learn to live and embrace each other’s culture’.

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Post film editor Edmund Lee picks the likely winners in all 19 categories at Sunday’s awards ceremony, which The Sparring Partner is likely to dominate and where recent Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh is expected.