Michelle Yeoh as Wai Lin in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

Bond girls who won Oscars
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Tomorrow Never Dies is most noteworthy for being the movie that introduced Malaysian action star Michelle Yeoh to Western audiences, a quarter-century before she won Best Actress for her role in 2022’s Best Picture winner Everything Everywhere All At Once.

Yeoh plays Wai Lin, a supremely capable Chinese agent.