Michelle Yeoh, the primary Asian actress to win an Oscar, joined the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Tuesday after being voted in as a member at a ceremony in Mumbai. She was one in all eight new proposed members to hitch the Olympic physique at its session within the Indian monetary capital.

A former Malaysian junior squash champion, Yeoh received the Oscar for greatest lead actress earlier this yr for her function within the movie, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”. She bought her Hollywood breakthrough when she was forged as the primary ethnic Chinese Bond lady in 1997’s “Tomorrow Never Dies” reverse Pierce Brosnan.

Yeoh, additionally a producer and a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador, starred in martial arts film “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon”, the 2005 interval drama “Memoirs of a Geisha” and the 2018 romantic comedy, “Crazy Rich Asians”. The 61-year-old is married to Jean Todt, the previous head of FIA, the governing physique for motor sport, which was recognised by the IOC in 2013.

She joins judoka Yael Arad, who received Israel’s first Olympic medal, Hungarian businessman and sports activities administrator Balasz Furjes, Cecilia Roxana Tait Villacorta, a former Olympic volleyball medallist and politician from Peru, and German sports activities entrepreneur Michael Mronz because the 5 new particular person members. Furjes and Mronz have additionally led efforts, unsuccessful to date, to get the Olympics to Hungary and again to Germany respectively.

Sweden’s Petra Soerling, head of the International Table Tennis Federation, and South Korean Kim Jae-youl, president of the International Skating Union, joined by way of their operate as heads of a world federation. Mehrez Boussayene, President of the Tunisian Olympic Committee, additionally joined.

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