I am blessed 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Thank you @time 🥰 ・・・ Michelle Yeoh (@michelleyeoh_official) is TIME's 2022 Icon of the Year. Yeoh has been a major star in Asia for decades—she was a giant in the golden age of Hong Kong action cinema, top-lining dozens of films and earning a reputation for nailing daring stunts. And she made her Hollywood debut in the 1997 James Bond film “Tomorrow Never Dies,” following up that success with roles in major movies like “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” “Crazy Rich Asians,” and “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.” But, until this year’s indie hit "Everything Everywhere All at Once"—in which Yeoh plays an overburdened wife and mother who must save the world—the now 60-year-old Malaysian actor had never been No. 1 on a Hollywood call sheet. This is the moment Yeoh has long been waiting for: a big, starring role, the kind that could make her a household name—the kind that many believe could win her an Oscar. “I’ve thought about it,” Yeoh tells @lucyfeld. “And not just me—I feel like my full Asian community has thought about it. They come up to me and they say, ‘You’re doing it for us.’” Read more at the link in our bio. Photograph by Michelle Watt (@wattphoto) for TIME