Michelle Yeoh will soon be seen as part of an all-female ensemble in Netflix's with a sequel already in development, and a look over Yeoh's very long career shows she's a natural fit for it. Of course, Yeoh is hardly an unknown name ahead of Gunpowder Milkshake, but each viewer's individual familiarity with her might come down to what generational demographic they're in.
Fans of Hong Kong action movies know Yeoh very well, her career stretching back to the '80s and first taking off with 1985's Yes, Madam, which teamed her up with her fellow martial arts movie great, Cynthia Rothrock. Yeoh would go onto appear in other Asian action movies like Magnificent Warriors, Royal Warriors, The Heroic Trio, Tai Chi Master, and Wing Chun. She also starred alongside Jackie Chan in Police Story 3: Supercop, with her character Jessica Yang making such an impact that she got her own spin-off, Project S (aka Supercop 2).
Yeoh made her Hollywood debut with the 1997 The Matrix, kickstarted the popularity of wire-fu in American action films in the early 2000s.
Yeoh would later be seen in other action films in the 21st century, such as The Touch, Silver Hawk, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, and True Legend. At the same time, Yeoh also began appearing in dramatic films like 2005's Memoirs of a Geisha, later ing the Last Christmas.
In 2016, Yeoh also ed the Ip Man movies with the 2018 spin-off, Master Z: Ip Man Legacy.
Yeoh will also be seen in another MCU role later this year as Jiang Nan in the martial arts films over her nearly 40-year career, while also showing her talents in comedic and dramatic roles, too, and her versatility makes Gunpowder Milkshake's arrival on Netflix one her fans will certainly want to watch out for.
