Michelle Yeoh, awarded Best Actress

"Ladies, don't let anybody tell you you are past your prime, never give up."

These and other emotional words were spoken by the beautiful 60-year-old Michelle Yeoh upon accepting her Oscar award.

Famous both in the East and West for decades, she is a fantastically talented actress; for the record she is the first Asian actress to win the award for Best Actress.

Born in Malaysia in 1962, she has always been very sporty and well-trained and has often worked in action films without stuntmen. When she worked in a Bond movie (Tomorrow Never Dies, 1997) she was not the typical Bond girl, but a femme fatale-spy of great intelligence and at least as cunning as her Bond antagonist. Always a favourite of Quentin Tarantino, the actress was a protagonist of the Hong Kong movies genre, action movies with tons of martial art scenes. We also saw Michelle Yeoh in 2000 in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; later we saw her 2018's Crazy Rich Asians, a comedy where she plays the traditionalist mother-matriarch role of the young billionaire. Now in the award-winning film Everything, Everywhere, All At Once, she ably plays many versions of herself and draws on her dance and martial arts skills, in a role that was tailor-made for her by the film's writers.