My Valentine Post for Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng (Poon/Todt) aka Michelle Khan

An absolutely magnificent woman!

Superb Oscar-winning actress with a range from heavy drama to light comedy with equal aplomb.
Has no actual martial arts training, but her extensive dance background enables her to perform fight choreography to perfection!
Has done her own fights and stunts whenever allowed.
Over 30 films and TV series, and I've seen every one (Even Owl and Dumbo!)

Thank Tech Heaven for multi-region DVD/Blu-Ray players!

Genre credits include

Wicked Part 1 /Wicked Part 2 (Madame Morrible)

Avatar 3 /Avatar 4 (Dr Karina Mogue)

Brothers Sun (Eileen Sun)

Tiger's Apprentice (Loo)

Ark: the Animated Series (Mei-Yin Li aka Beast Queen)

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (Airazor)

Witcher: Blood Origin (Scian)

School for Good and Evil (Prof Emma Anemone)

A Haunting in Venice (Joyce Reynolds)

American Born Chinese (Guanyin)

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once (Evelyn Wang [multiple incarnations/forms])

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Ying Nan)

Star Trek: Discovery / Star Trek: Short Treks / Star Trek: Section 31 (Emperor Georgiou / Lieutenant/Captain Philippa Georgiou)

Guardians of the Galaxy:Vol 2 (Aleta Ogord)

Marco Polo (Lotus)

Strike Back (Mei Foster / Lt Colonel Han Li-Na)

Morgan (Dr Lui Chen)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny / Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon / Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon [VG] (Yu Shu Lien)

Kung Fu Panda 2 (Soothsayer)

Reign of Assassins (Xi Yu aka Drizzle)

True Legend (Sister Yu)

Doraemon the New Record of Nobita: Spaceblazer (Tamako)
Babylon A.D. (Sister Rebekka)
Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor [3rd Mummy film] (Zi Juan)
SunShine (Corazon)
Tomorrow Never Dies [18th Eon James Bond film] (Wai Lin)
SilverHawk (Lulu Wong)
Heroic Trio [one of my favorite flicks] (Ching aka Invisible Woman) Executioners [Heroic Trio II] (Ching)
Magnificent Warriors (Fok Ming-Ming)

SuperCop [Police Story III] / SuperCop 2 [Once a Cop] (Inspector Jessica Yang)

Wing Chun (Yim Wing Chun)

It's rumored she was offered the role of Seraph in the second and third Matrix movies, but turned it down. (The role went to a male actor)

Check out Michelle Yeoh's...

Official Instagram

Official FaceBook

Michelle Yeoh Web Theatre (FanSite)

BEWARE Fake Yeoh "News"!

Note: The Invisible Woman in Heroic Trio is not the Marvel Comics character.
Nor is Wonder Woman (played by Anita Mui) the DC Comics character.

Zhang Ziyi aka Ziyi Zhang

Equally-adept at comedy, drama, and action, Zhang Ziyi (or Ziyi Zhang, depending on the translation) isn't a martial arts expert, but, like fellow Fantastic Femme Michelle Yeoh (with whom she's co-starred twice), she uses extensive dance training to learn the needed choreography!
Next up, she'll be playing a live-action version of the legendary Chinese heroine Hua Mulan!
Trivia:
Didn't know any English when she did Rush Hour 2! She learned her dialogue phonetically and star Jackie Chan translated the director's instructions for her! (She has since learned English.)

Genre appearances include...
Mulan [2011] (Hua Mulan)
Sophie's Revenge (Sophie)
HorseMen (Kristen)
TMNT (Karai)
House of Flying Daggers (Mei)
Hero (Moon)
Warrior aka Musa (Princess Bu-yong)
Purple Butterfly ( Cynthia / Ding Hui)
Legend of Zu aka Zu Warriors [2001] (Joy)
Rush Hour 2 (Hu Li)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Jen Yu / Xia Long / Jiao Long)

Check out...
Her Official Site
Hello Ziyi (FanSite)

Other actresses to play Karai include...

Karen Neill in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2003]
Other actresses to play Hua Mulan include...
Wei Zaho in Hua Mulan [2009]
Ming-Na and Lea Salonga (singing) in Mulan [1998] / Mulan II / World of Mulan [2005]
Anita Yuen in Mulan [TV][1998]

Ellen Wong

Went to a screening of Scott Pilgrim vs the World.
Enjoyed it tremendously. (Admittedly, I've not read the graphic novel series [yet], so any variances from "canon" went right by me...)
But one thing surprised me.
While Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Ramona Flowers was cute, the REAL "hot babe" was geekgirl Knives Chau played by newcomer Ellen Wong!
Now there was a woman worth fighting for! (Not that she couldn't do it herself!)
Curiously, there's very little out there about Ellen. The most comprehensive bio is on the Scott Pilgrim movie website,  where you discover that one of her favorite actresses is fellow Fantastic Femme Michelle Yeoh!

Ellen's genre credits include...

Scott Pilgrim vs the World (Knives Chau)

Unnatural History "Heart of the Warrior" (Hoshi)

This IS WonderLand(Amy Li)

Note: there is at least one other Ellen Wong in the entertainment business, a makeup artist with extensive credits.

Check out...
FanSite for Ellen Wong :) (FanSite)