- Is known to have full-contact stunt fighting style. For the fight scene in the bicycle shop in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), the producers had to call in Jackie Chan's stunt team because none of the stuntmen wanted to do the scene with her, due to her intense skill-set.
- One of the highest-paid Chinese-language actresses in the world.
- Miss Malaysia 1983. (1983)
- Went through an intense six-week preparation for Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), described as "Geisha boot camp". She and co-star Ziyi Zhang nicknamed it as "Seven Rooms of Torture".
- Surname, "Yeoh", is pronounced "yo".
- She is currently engaged to Jean Todt, who became the President of Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile in 2009. (2008)
- Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2002.
- She is the second woman of color to win the Academy Award for Best Actress. She received her Oscar for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) from Jessica Chastain and Halle Berry, the latter of whom is the first woman of color to win the award. Yeoh won the award twenty-one years after Berry.
- Was a very close friend to Anita Mui since the early 1990s. She also hosted a memorial event for Mui in 2007.
- Received an honorary doctorate (Doctor of Fine Arts) from the American Film Institute (AFI) for her services of distinction to the arts of the moving image on August 13, 2022.
- Received her Bachelor of Arts degree in creative arts with a minor in drama from the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) in London, England (1982).
- Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1999.
- Malaysian actress.
- A member of the International Olympic Committee since October 2023.
- Her Best Actress Academy Award nomination for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) made her the first self-identifying Asian actress to be nominated in the category. (Merle Oberon was the first Best Actress nominee of Asian descent in 1936, but she did not publicly acknowledge her ancestry).
- She was awarded Knight Commander of the Order of the Perak State Crown (DPMP) by Sultan Azlan Shah in 2001; and Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Perak State Crown (SPMP) by Sultan Azlan Shah in 2012.
- She was awarded Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour by French President Jacques Chirac in 2007; and Officer of the National Order of the Legion of Honour by French President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012.
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