Actor: Michelle Yeoh

Michelle Yeoh trained as a ballet dancer and moved into Hong Kong action cinema, performing her own stunts at a level that included a jump onto a moving train and a fall that broke her back.

Police Story 3 and Yes Madam established her as one of the very few women leading Hong Kong action, and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon brought international recognition.

Tomorrow Never Dies made her a Bond partner who is a genuine equal, which the series had rarely allowed.

She won Best Actress for Everything Everywhere All at Once at sixty, becoming the first Asian woman to win the category, in a role requiring comedy, martial arts and grief in the same scenes.