Michelle Yeoh wins best actress Oscar for Everything Everywhere All at Once

Malaysian-born Yeoh becomes the first south-east Asian performer to win the best actress award, adding to her Golden Globe and SAG awards for the role

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Michelle Yeoh has won the Oscar for best actress for superhero comedy Everything Everywhere All at Once at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

Born in Malaysia, Yeoh becomes the first person of south-east Asian descent to win the best actress Oscar for her role as laundromat manager Evelyn Wang, who stumbles across a “multiverse” of alternative realities. Yeoh defeated strong competition for the award, including Cate Blanchett for Tár and Michelle Williams for The Fabelmans.