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All About Merle Oberon, the First Asian Best Actress Oscar Nominee Who Hid Her Heritage from...
People via Yahoo News· 1 year agoGeorge Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Merle Oberon Before Michelle Yeoh made history as the second Best...
The first Asian actress to be nominated for an Oscar kept her heritage hidden until after her death
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHerbert Dorfman/Getty Images Merle Oberon is credited as the first actress of Asian descent to be...
The tragic history of the first Asian woman nominated for Best Actress, over 85 years before...
Entertainment Weekly via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhen Michelle Yeoh was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for Everything Everywhere All at Once,...
Hollywood Flashback: Merle Oberon Blazed a Trail in Secret
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIf Everything Everywhere All at Once‘s Michelle Yeoh wins the best actress Oscar on March 12, she...
Michelle Yeoh Is the Second Asian Woman to Be Nominated for Best Actress: 'It's Possible'
People via Yahoo News· 1 year ago[Editor's note: On Tuesday, PEOPLE incorrectly stated that Michelle Yeoh had made history as the...
The Complex History of Asian Representation at the Oscars
Time via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMerle Oberon in The Dark Angel, 1935; Haing Ngor in The Killing Fields, 1984; Michelle Yeoh in...
NPR slammed for tweeting Michelle Yeoh the ‘first person who identifies as Asian’ to win Best...
NextShark via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTwitter users are calling out NPR for its tweet announcing Michelle Yeoh’s historic Best Actress win...
News Report Of Michelle Yeoh's Oscar Victory Triggers Knee-Jerk Outrage
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 1 year agoConservatives and others pushed back against NPR Sunday for referring to Michelle Yeoh as “the first...
Michelle Yeoh makes Oscars history as first Asian to win best actress: 'A beacon of hope'
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Oscars may still have a ways to go before it becomes a truly inclusive celebration of film, but...
Michelle Yeoh Is Officially the First Asian-Presenting Best Actress Oscar Winner
InStyle via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHer acceptance speech, which thanked moms everywhere, should get an award, too. Getty Images May we...