Malaysian Chinese actress Michelle Yeoh won Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Motion Picture for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” on Tuesday at the 80th Annual Golden Globe Awards. Photo: Kevin Mazur/ VCG

Actress Ana de Armas presents the award to Yeoh at the 80th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California, the U.S. It was Yeoh’s first Golden Globe. Photo: Rich Polk/VCG

Members of the cast and crew of “Everything Everywhere All at Once” mug for a group photo on March 11 during the 2022 SXSW Conference and Festivals in Austin, Texas, the U.S. Photo: Amy E. Price/VCG

In the movie, Yeoh played Evelyn Quan Wang, a middle-aged immigrant mom with the power to travel the multiverse. Photo: IC Photo

In 2005, Yeoh starred with Zhang Ziyi in “Memoirs of a Geisha.” Photo: IC Photo

Yeoh played Yu Shu Lien in the 2000 film “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.” Directed by Ang Lee and featuring Chinese stars like Chow Yun-fat (left), the film won the Oscar and Golden Globe for best foreign-language film in 2001. Photo: VCG

Yeoh gained international recognition for her role in the 1997 James Bond film “Tomorrow Never Dies.” Photo: Keith Hamshere/VCG

Yeoh worked with Anita Mui in the 1993 action film “The Heroic Trio.” Photo: VCG

Yeoh greets fans at the Shanghai International Film Festival in June 2009. Photo: VCG

Yeoh speaks at the AFI Conservatory commencement ceremony for the class of 2022 at the TCL Chinese Theatre on Aug. 13 in Hollywood, California. That day, the American Film Institute awarded her an honorary doctorate in fine arts. Photo: David Livingston/VCG

Yeoh and actor Daniel Wu promote the action-comedy TV series “American Born Chinese” on Sept. 10 in California. In the series, Yeoh portrays the goddess Guanyin. Photo: VCG

Yeoh speaks on stage during the reception for Time magazine’s Person of The Year awards in New York on Dec. 8. The magazine named her 2022’s Icon of the Year. Photo: Eugene Gologursky/VCG