Michelle Yeoh could soon become a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after the Oscar winner was among eight candidates nominated by the organization\u2019s executive board. <\/p>\n
Her proposed membership is set to be ratified at an IOC session in Mumbai, India, next month. <\/p>\n
In March, Yeoh won best actress at the\u00a095th Academy Awards for her acclaimed performance in\u00a0\u201cEverything Everywhere All at Once,\u201d\u00a0becoming the first woman of Asian descent to win the award. She was also the first Malaysian-born performer to be honored with a best actress Oscar. <\/p>\n
Yeoh, 61, is a former Malaysian junior squash champion and joins Israel\u2019s first Olympic medallist Yael Arad, Hungarian businessman Bal\u00e1zs Furjes, Peruvian politician and former Olympian Cecilia Roxana Tait Villacorta and German sports entrepreneur Michael Mronz as the five proposed individual members. <\/p>\n
In a statement, IOC President Thomas Bach said: \u201cThese candidates bring added value to the work of the IOC because of their experience and diverse expertise in different walks of life. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhat they all have in common is their love of sport and their strong belief in the Olympic values and what the IOC stands for.\u201d <\/p>\n
Movie credits for Yeoh, who is widely considered an icon of martial arts cinema, also include Marvel Studio\u2019s \u201cShang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings\u201d (2021), \u201cCrazy Rich Asians\u201d (2018), \u201cThe Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor\u201d (2008), \u201cMemoirs Of A Geisha\u201d (2005) and \u201cCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon\u201d (2000). <\/p>\n
She made her name in Hong Kong action movies of the 1980s and 90s, before her breakthrough international role in 1997 opposite Pierce Brosnan in the James Bond film \u201cTomorrow Never Dies.\u201d <\/p>\n\n
Michelle Yeoh could soon become a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after the Oscar winner was among eight candidates nominated by the organization\u2019s executive board. Her proposed membership is set to be ratified at an IOC session in Mumbai, India, next month. In March, Yeoh won best actress at the\u00a095th Academy Awards for <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}