Michelle Yeoh made history as the first Asian woman to win Best Actress at the Academy Awards. It’s a triumphant and moving moment for the thesp who killed in her role as a time-traveling Chinese-American laundromat owner navigating an IRS audit and complex relationships with her husband and daughter in Everything Everywhere All At Once.
It was her first Oscar nomination. “For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight, this a beacon of hope and possibility.
This is proof that, dream big and dreams do come true. And ladies don’t let anybody tell you you are ever past your prime,” said an emotional Yeoh.
She dedicated the award to “my mom, and all the moms in the world, because they are really the superheroes and without them none of us would be here tonight.” Yeoh, of Malaysian Chinese descent, started her career in Hong Kong action films and starred in the iconic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
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