Michelle Yeoh, an international celebrity and well-known for her acting skills, was awarded on Sunday the Academy Award for Best Actress. This was her first Oscar nomination for an Asian woman , and her second time she has been nominated in the last 100 years.
Was she worthy of being acknowledged? The other candidate was Cate Blanchett who ran for Tar.
Merle Oberon
While she might not be as famous in the same way as Michelle Yeoh from Asia, Merle Oberon was a groundbreaking Hollywood actor who made history. Oberon was the first Asian American actor to win the Academy Award nomination. Despite her multi-racial background, she declared she was white.
When she first began her career as an actor for British films, she was given the part in the role of Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII in 1933. The film was the first British film to be a hit with international viewers. Alexander Korda, a Hungarian director born in Hungary, enlisted her for a role and she continued to take on a range of characters.
Being in a relationship even to Prince Philip (the spouse of the Queen Elizabeth II) was not a normal affair. In order to avoid the ire of her enemies, she kept the details of her South Asian heritage a secret and concealed herself as white. She died in 1979. Only after her passing that the world was able to discover her true identity.
Vivien Leigh
Vivien was an acclaimed actress on silverscreen. While she gained fame for her charisma and beautiful appearance, she was also depressed. Her first diagnosis was with tuberculosis around the middle in the 1940s.
The tragic tale of her life exposes shocking details of the artist’s struggle to keep her sanity. Bipolar disorder was the hallmark of her public appearance.
Laurence Olivier, her husband for seven years, was also a troublesome person to Laurence Olivier. The couple had been married for seven years prior to their split in the year 1960.
Leigh was a skilled actor on stage, but her films did not fare so well in the United States. Leigh was a victim of several failures, and had her first breakdown of mental health.
The mental illness she suffered was due to the trauma of the first time she miscarried. The first miscarriage she had, which was filmed by Caesar and Cleopatra during 1945, is the subject of historians’ opinion as the first time she had a break in her mental state.
Michelle Yeoh
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded an Oscar for the Asian actress for the very first time in its 95-year tradition. Michelle Yeoh was awarded the most prestigious award for her performance as a character in Everything Everywhere At Once. The sci-fi film centers on the story of a Chinese American laundry owner who must navigate the multiverse to avoid the supernatural menace.
Yeoh She was born in Malaysia She began ballet lessons as a young girl and then moved to London at the age of 15 to attend the Royal Academy of Dance. But her dancing career ended after she was injured with an injury to her back.
The year 1984 was the time she had her debut appearance on camera in commercials starring Jackie Chan, a martial art superstar. The result was the signing of an acting contract with D&B Films Hong Kong. While initially she was billed “Michelle Khan” but she eventually decided to use her real name. Prior to her appearance as the main character of The Marvel Cinematic Universe blockbuster Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings She was in a variety of 1980s movies.
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