KUALA LUMPUR -- When Michelle Yeoh was announced this week as the winner of the Academy Award for best actress, she became the first Asian woman to ever win the award, smashing stereotypes, glass ceilings and everything else that the action star needed to break.
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Michelle Yeoh shows off her best actress Oscar in Beverly Hills, California, on March 13. © Reuters
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