Michelle Yeoh wins Best Actress in powerful Oscars 2023 speech

Now, Michelle Yeoh can be an Oscar-winning actor.

Star of You can have everything at onceFor her role as Evelyn Wang’s leading lady, she triumphantly took to the screen and won one of three acting Oscars.

“For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibilities,” Yeoh said in her acceptance speech. “This is proof that dreams come true. And ladies…never let anybody tell you that you are past your prime.”

Yeoh’s win makes You can have everything at once only the third movie in Oscars history to win three out of the four major acting awards — the previous being Sidney Lumet’s Network and Elliot Kazan’s Desire, a Streetcar. This win is historic because it marks the Academy’s first ever award to an Asian actress for Best Actress In a Leading Role.

This came after a long wait. With a nearly 40-year career in film, Yeoh began as a Hong Kong action star in the ’90s working with Jackie Chan in international hits like Super Cop (A.K.A. Story of the PoliceBefore jumping to Hollywood as Chinese spy Wai Li in 1997 Bond’s film, Tomorrow Never Dies.

As a gifted performer that known for both her dramatic work as well as her stunt prowess in martial arts films, Yeoh would continue to star in films both from Hollywood and abroad, her profile slowly rising until the runaway success of 2018’s Crazy Rich AsiansYeoh was the family matriarch, and Eleanor Young was her primary antagonist.

All You Need at One TimeTonight, he was nominated to 11 Oscars.