Thursday, August 16, 2018

Michelle Yeoh aka Michelle Khan (Yang Zi Chong)

An absolutely magnificent woman!
Superb actress with an acting range from heavy drama to light comedy with equal aplomb, as you can see in her latest film, Crazy Rich Asians.
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!)
Genre credits include
Star Trek: Discovery (Emperor Georgiou / Captain Philippa Georgiou)
Guardians of the Galaxy:Vol 2 (Aleta Ogord)
Marco Polo (Lotus)
Strike Back (Mei Foster / Li-N)
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 Web Theatre (FanSite)
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.

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Gugulethu Sophia Mbatha

Does she like playing little sisters?
Gugu Mbatha-Raw first came to the attention of American genre audiences as Martha Jones' (fellow Femme Fantastique Freema Agyeman) younger sibling Tish on Doctor Who.
And, when JJ Abrams cast his series UnderCovers, Gugu auditioned for the role of Samantha Bloom's kid sister Lizzy!
Apparently, Abrams thought "Kid sister? The hell with that! She's the LEAD!"
Wise man, that JJ!
She was the best thing about the show!  ;-)
Besides doing a lot of genre tv and movies (see below), this graduate of the acclaimed Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts performed to rave reviews both on the London stage and Broadway including Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, and Ophelia in Hamlet (which went from the West End to Broadway)!
A Fantastic Femme to watch, which we can now do in the new movie A Wrinkle in Time!
Genre credits include...
Cloverfield III: God Particle
A Wrinkle in Time (Dr Kate Murry)
Beauty and the Beast  [2017] (Plumette)
Black Mirror "San Junipero" (Kelly Booth)
Jupiter Ascending (Famulus)
Touch (Clea Hopkins)
Odd Thomas (Viola)
UnderCovers (Samantha Bloom)
BoneKickers (Viv Davis)
Bad Girls (Fidelity Saunders)
Trial Retribution (Jenny Miller)
Disarming Britain: FallOut (Shanice Roberts)
Doctor Who (Letitia "Tish" Jones)
Spooks aka MI-5 (Jenny)

Check out...
Gugu Mbatha-Raw (FanSite)
Adoring Gugu (FanSite)
Profile at RADA (via Wayback Machine)
Profile on the Undercovers page at NBC