Michelle Yeoh, Oscar Winner, Nominated for the International Olympic Committee

Michelle Yeoh, the first Asian actress to win an Oscar, is set to become a member of the International Olympic Committee after being included in a list of eight proposed new members today, Friday. Yeoh won the Oscar for Best Actress earlier this year for her role in "Everything Everywhere All At Once" and her proposed membership will be confirmed during the committee's session in Mumbai next month. Yeoh, a former Malaysian junior squash champion, made a significant breakthrough in Hollywood when she was cast as the first Chinese Bond girl in the 1997 film "Tomorrow Never Dies" alongside Pierce Brosnan. She also starred in the martial arts film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." With this nomination, Yeoh joins Yael Arad, the first Israeli to win an Olympic medal, Hungarian entrepreneur and sports director Balazs Furjes, Cecilia Roxana Tait Biacor, a former Olympic medalist and politician from Peru, and German businessman Michael Mronz, who specializes in sports, as five candidates nominated as individuals by the IOC Executive Board.