Tropicana May-June 2023 #148 The Passion Issue
Tropicana Magazine May-June 2023 #148 The Passion Issue
Tropicana Magazine May-June 2023 #148 The Passion Issue
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TROPICANA MAGAZINE<br />
Making Malaysia<br />
PROUD<br />
Malaysians are achieving international<br />
success, and we are grateful to have such<br />
amazing award-winning talents<br />
Tan Sri Michelle Yeoh<br />
Michelle has had a fantastic year, being the first Malaysian to win a Best Actress<br />
Oscar at the recent 95th Academy Awards. She was also the first Asian woman<br />
to win Best Actress. <strong>The</strong> Ipoh native received the award for her performance in<br />
Everything Everywhere All at Once.<br />
Michelle, 60, previously won the <strong>2023</strong> Golden Globe for Best Performance by an<br />
Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy. <strong>The</strong> former Miss Malaysia 1983 also<br />
made history by becoming the first Asian actress to win Outstanding Performance<br />
by a Female Actor in a Leading Role at the Screen Actors Guild Awards <strong>2023</strong>.<br />
Michelle, who has been acting since the mid-1980s, is an inspiration to many,<br />
particularly Asians and Malaysians, as well as women her age. She is proof that<br />
with hard work and determination, dreams can come true.<br />
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Her Oscar acceptance speech says it all: “For all the little boys and girls who look<br />
like me watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibilities. This is proof<br />
that dreams come true. And ladies... never let anybody tell you that you are past<br />
your prime.”<br />
Expect to see more of Michelle on the big screen in Kenneth Branagh’s Agatha<br />
Christie adaptation, A Haunting in Venice, and James Cameron’s Avatar franchise<br />
among others.
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