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.

Tamlyn Naomi Tomita

Before becoming an actress, teen Tamlyn Naomi Tomita won the title of Queen of the Nisei Week Pageant in Los Angeles and Miss Nikkei International.
She made her acting debut in Karate Kid Part II. On the film she met long-time actress Nobu McCarthy, also a former beauty queen. The veteran actress became a role model, mentor and close friend to Tamlyn, making it especially difficult when, in 2002, Nobu passed away unexpectedly while the two performers were shooting Gaijin 2 on location in Brazil.
Tamlyn's noted for playing emotionally-intense, conflicted, characters.

Trivia:
Had she continued in the role of Laurel Takashima on Babylon 5, it would have been revealed that she was the Psi Corps "sleeper agent" responsible for the attempted assassination of Ambassador Kosh in the pilot. (Instead, the actual assassin was revealed as a guest-star character, and the idea of making a regular character a mind-controlled agent was transferred to Talia Winters.)
It's implied that Dr. Linda Kimura in Criminal Minds "Amplification" is actually Dr. Kimberly Shiroma from Burning Zone, including her knowledge of covert biological experiments and the line "It's been years since I've worn one of these!" (referring to a hazmat suit).
She's currently in Star Trek: Picard as Commodore Oh, a Vulcan Starfleet officer revealed to be a Romulan spy!
Genre appearances include...

Star Trek: Picard (Commodore/General Oh)

Man in the High Castle (Tamiko Wantanabe)

Law & Order: LA (Medical Examiner Nishizawa)

Tekken (Jun Kazama)
Mentalist "BloodShot"
CSI: Miami "Seeing Red"
Criminal Minds "Amplification" (Dr. Linda Kimura)
The Eye [2008] (Mrs. Cheung)
Heroes (Ishi Nakamura)
Stargate SG-1 / Stargate Atlantis (Ambassador Shen Xiaoyi)
Womens' Murder Club "Maybe Baby"
24 (Jenny Dodge)
Eureka (Kim Anderson/Kim Anderson Clone)
Pandemic (Melissa Lo)
Threat Matrix "Under the Gun"
The Shield "Pilot"
The Agency (Elizabeth)
FreakyLinks "Subject: the Final Word"
JAG (Lt. Cmdr. Tracy Manetti)
James Bond 007: NightFire [VG] (Makiko Hayashi)
Highlander "Samurai"
Day After Tomorrow (Janet Tokada)
Runaway Virus (Monique Chao)
Robot Stories (Marcia)
Burning Zone (Dr. Kimberly Shiroma)
Babylon 5 "The Gathering" (Lieutenant Commander Laurel Takashima)
Last Man on Planet Earth (Agent Kara Hastings)
Killing Jar (Diane Sanford)
Murder She Wrote "Death in Hawaii"
Vanishing Son (Lan Chi)
Time Trax "Return of the Yakuza"
Quantum Leap "Temptation Eyes: February 1, 1985"
Raven (Kim Tanaka)
Check out...
Tamlyn's FaceBook page

Olga Konstantinovna Kurylenko

A model-turned-genre actress, Olga had extensive dance training during her childhood and teen years, which enables her to do convincing action sequences.
Trivia:
Olga's tri-lingual; Russian, French, and English.
While her created-for-the-film character, Camille Montes Rivera, appears in the video game version of Quantum of Solace, curiously, the characters she plays in films-based-on-video games HitMan and Max Payne didn't exist in the original games!

Genre appearances include...
Singularity (Laura)
Empires of the Deep (Mermaid)

Assassin Next Door aka Kirot (Galia)

Centurion (Etain)

Tyranny (Mina Harud)

Quantum of Solace [22nd Eon James Bond film] / 
Quantum of Solace: the Video Game 
(Camille Montes Rivera)

Max Payne (Natasha Sax)

HitMan (Nika Boronina)

Suspectes aka Secrets (Eva Pirès)

Serpent aka Snake (Sofia)

Paris, je t'aime aka Paris, I Love You

"Quartier de la Madeleine" (Vampire)

Check out...

Olga Kurylenko OnLine (FanSite)

Olga Kurylenko Photos (FanSite)

Naomie Melanie Harris

Her mother was a noted tv sitcom writer, and she learned acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School founded by Sir Laurence Olivier.
So why does Naomie Harris have more horror / fantasy / sci-fi work to her credit than comedy or drama or any other genre? (Not that we're complaining...)
She started her career at the age of 9 on an adventure tv series, and hasn't stopped working since!

Naomie is currently starring as Elizabeth Lavenza in Danny Boyle's acclaimed London stage production of Frankenstein.

Genre appearances include...
SkyFall: James Bond 007 (Eve Moneypenny)
Fable III[VG](Page)
Resident Evil V[VG] (Sheva Alomar)
Ninja Assassin (Mika Coretti)
Pirates of the Caribbean: at World's End /
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
(Tia Dalma aka Calypso)
28 Days Later (Selena)
Trauma (Elisa)
After the Sunset (Sophie)
Miami Vice [2006] (Detective Trudy Joplin)
The Project (Maggie Dunn)
Dinotopia (Romana)
Tomorrow People [1992-95] (Ami Jackson)
Erasmus Microman (Millie)
Simon and the Witch (Joyce)
Runaway Bay (Shuku)

Check out...
Naomie Harris Fan (FanSite)
Naomie Harris News... (FanSite)
My Secret Life interview
Daily Mail interview

Other actresses to play Miss Jane Moneypenny include...
Lois Maxwell from Dr. No (James Bond 1) to A View to a Kill (James Bond 14)
Caroline Bliss from Living Daylights (James Bond 15) to License to Kill (James Bond 16)
Samantha Bond from GoldenEye (James Bond 17) to Die Another Day (James Bond 20)
Pamela Salem in Never Say Never Again
Barbara Bouchet in Casino Royale [1967] (Technically, she's Miss Moneypenny's daughter, also named Miss Moneypenny)
Other actresses to play Detective Trudy Joplin include...

Olivia Brown on Miami Vice [1984-90]
Other actresses to play Tia Dalma aka Calypso include...
Julianne Buescher in Pirates of the Caribbean: at Worlds End--the Video Game