A Look Back at Ipoh’s Own Michelle Yeoh

by See Foon

Michelle Yeoh won the award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Motion Picture at the 80th Golden Globe Awards, for her role in what many consider to be the best multiversal romp of 2022, Everything Everywhere All At Once. Seeing as she made history by becoming the first Malaysian to win the award, we figured that we should go on a quick historical romp ourselves. Way back to issue 115 of Ipoh Echo, back when she had a mere 36 film credits.

Those who only think of her as just a film actress, may be surprised there’s more to this Ipoh girl than her acting chops.

Here is a revisit of what See Foon Chan-Koppen discovered about this amazing Ipoh girl.