The most important thing is that you have really good friends and family, and when you go back to them, it's like 'what?'. You carry on as who you are.
Michelle appeared in a TV commercial for the Tourism Bureau of Malaysia in 2002.
Michelle was a Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2002.
Michelle was the star and executive producer of the film The Touch (2002).
She was awarded a ShoWest Award for International Star of the Year at the 2001 ShoWest Convention.
She was nominated as Best Supporting Actress at the 1998 Hong Kong Film Awards for her role in The Soong Sisters.
Along with Chow Yun-Fat, she was nominated for Favorite Action Team at the 2001 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards.
She received the Asian Media Award in 1998 at the Asian American International Film Festival.
She cannot read Chinese and has to have scripts read to her or written phonetically in western characters.
In spite of her many action films, Michelle has never had formal martial arts training.
Her first acting job was in a commercial alongside Jackie Chan.
She was married to film executive Dickson Poon from 1988 to 1992. They are divorced, but remain on good terms and was named godmother to Poon’s daughter with his second wife.
She speaks English, Malay and Cantonese.
She had to learn her lines phonetically when filming Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon because she does not speak Mandarin.
She won an "Actress of the Year" award at the 2003 MTV Style Awards in Shanghai.
Her salary for Tomorrow Never Dies was $2,500,000.
She is the highest paid actress in Asia.
She fought her way to the top in the male-dominated genre of Hong Kong action films, where she has been known for years as the "queen of martial arts".
In 1997, she was chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World.
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