Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh is finally ready to return to the Star Trek universe but in a slightly different way. The Trek franchise team at Paramount+ had been working on a series about Emperor Philippa Georgiou. Now, the idea will be turned into Star Trek: Section 31, an “event movie” for the streaming service.
Georgiou, a version of the Captain from an alternate universe who was first seen in the first episode of Star Trek: Discovery, will join a secret branch of Starfleet whose job is to protect the United Federation of Planets and face the sins of her past, just like in the series.
Section 31 was first introduced in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Georgiou was asked about the group while she was in the Klingon home world in a scene from Season 1 that was cut.
A brief biography of Michelle Yeoh
The actress Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng is from Malaysia. In her early Hong Kong movies, she was known as Michelle Khan. In the 1990s, she became famous after starring in a series of action movies where she did her stunts, such as Yes, Madam (1985), Police Story 3: Supercop (1992), and The Heroic Trio (1993).
Yeoh became known worldwide after she moved to the United States and starred in the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and Ang Lee’s martial arts movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). She was nominated for the BAFTA Award as the Best Actress in a Leading Role for the latter. In Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, she played a mother who was too busy to deal with the multiverse. For this role, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the first Asian to win the award and the first Malaysian to win an Oscar in any category.
Yeoh, who was 20 then, won Miss Malaysia World in 1983. She was the Miss Malaysia at the Miss World pageant in London in 1983, where she came in 18th. She went to Australia at the end of that year and won the Miss Moomba International 1984 pageant. Jackie Chan was in a TV ad for Guy Laroche watches, her first acting job. This got the attention of D&B Films, a new company in Hong Kong that makes movies. She could understand Ipoh Cantonese, the language in her hometown, but she couldn’t. During a phone call in Cantonese, she was asked to be in a TV commercial with Sing Long. When she got to the studio, she discovered Sing Long was Jackie Chan’s Cantonese name. So she started her career in Hong Kong, where she learned to speak Cantonese.
Yeoh’s first roles were in action and martial arts movies, where she did most of her stunts. She played the main character in her third movie, Yes, Madam, from 1985. In these movies, she went by the name Michelle Khan. D&B Films chose this name because they thought selling to international and Western audiences would be easier. In 1987, Yeoh married Dickson Poon, the head of the D&B Group, and stopped acting.
Becoming “a first” at the Oscars
She made history when Michelle Yeoh won the Oscar for best actress. She was the first actress from Southeast Asia to win the Oscar for best actress. Yeoh won for her role as Evelyn Wang in the movie “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once,” which also won best picture.
Yeoh won an Oscar for her role as a Chinese immigrant who can see other versions of her life in other universes.
Everyone stood up and cheered when she got up on stage to accept her award. “Thank you very much. This is a sign of hope and possibility for all the little girls and boys who look like me who will watch tonight. “In her speech, she said. Yeoh said her 84-year-old mother is watching with friends and family in Malaysia. “This is proof that you should dream big and that dreams do come true,” she said. She told them, “I love you guys, so I’m bringing this home to you.” She also thanked her “extended family” in Hong Kong, where she got her to start as an actress.
Her family and friends watched the Oscars together at a big party in Kuala Lumpur. When Michelle Yeoh won, the crowd cheered, and many people hugged her mom.
Yeoh’s mother said she was sure her daughter would win. At a news conference at the watch party, she said, “She works very hard.”
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One of Yeoh’s nieces said that when she won, it “dropped her jaw.” “I couldn’t say anything; I cried,” she said. “So quickly, it happened. We’re so glad that she won, that our aunt won.”
Anwar Ibrahim, the prime minister of Malaysia, sent Michelle Yeoh his best wishes on behalf of the country where she was born. “The Government joins the rest of the country in congratulating Tan Sri Michelle Yeoh on winning the highly sought-after Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role at today’s 95th Academy Awards in Los Angeles,” he wrote in a tweet.
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