Michelle Yeoh looks back at her days as an action star in Hong Kong

This image released by Warner Bros. Entertainment shows Michelle Yeoh in a scene from the film "Crazy Rich Asians." (Sanja Bucko/Warner Bros. Entertainment via AP)

Michelle Yeoh plays the overbearing matriarch in Crazy Rich Asians (currently showing at GSC cinemas nationwide) and is also a regular on Star Trek: Discovery, launching its second season in January.

But she may be best known as the sword master in Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.