Michelle Yeoh poses at the red carpet at the 76th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France on May 21, 2023. , joined the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday after being voted in as a member at a ceremony in Mumbai.A former Malaysian junior squash champion, Yeoh won the Oscar for best lead actress earlier this year for her role in the film, Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Yeoh, also a producer and a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador, starred in the martial arts movie Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, the 2005 period drama Memoirs of a Geisha and the 2018 romantic comedy, Crazy Rich Asians. She joins judoka Yael Arad, who won Israel's first Olympic medal, Hungarian businessman and sports administrator Balasz Furjes, Cecilia Roxana Tait Villacorta, a former Olympic volleyball medallist and politician from Peru, and German sports entrepreneur Michael Mronz as the five new individual members.
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