Bond girl Michelle Yeoh to receive highest French civilian honour

Michelle Yeoh, one of Asia's biggest film stars, will receive France's highest civilian honour later this year - reports the Associated Press.

Yeoh will be awarded the Legion of Honour in an Oct. 3 ceremony in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, French Foreign Ministry officials said Tuesday.

She began her career in Chinese action movies and leapt to international fame in the 1997 James Bond movie, Tomorrow Never Dies, and Ang Lee's 2000 kung-fu hit, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Yeoh stars in the upcoming sci-fi adventure movie Babylon A.D., directed by French filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz.

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