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It is not easy to make history with 60 years at the

.

And more being a woman.

And Asian.

But it is never too late if there is desire, talent and persistence.

star of the most atypical and craziest film to sweep the Hollywood Academy gala,

is proof of that.

For her it was the Oscar for best actress ahead of her other great favorite, a

who will have to wait for a better occasion to enter the Olympus of actresses who already have three golden statuettes.

Michelle Yeoh, born in Malaysia and consecrated as an actress in Hong Kong before beginning to sound in the United States, dedicated the Oscar to "the girls and boys who look like me, a halo of hope and proof that dreams

true reality".

She, too, did not forget the struggle that women have been upholding for years to achieve greater representation, to combat the stigma of age.

"Don't ever let them tell you that your time has passed," she stated to cheers from a party at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles.

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Yeoh's victory is not only

- the first in the category for a woman from that continent - inside and outside the US, but also for the Academy in its goal of achieving the long-awaited feeling of inclusion after years of white nominees and winners.

Even so, it is still symptomatic that this is the first Oscar for a "colored" woman since Halle Berry's triumph in 2002 for

.

And that, in the 95-year history of the most important film awards, the work of other actresses from Asia has been so consistently ignored.

"I hope that this shatters that damn glass ceiling, that this continues and that we see more faces (like yours) up there," she said in a recent interview with

.

Yeoh has long been a

, able to bridge the heyday of Hong Kong action movies and blockbuster Hollywood.

Despite this, until now she had been underestimated as an artist, with more credit for her knowledge of martial arts than for her acting ability.

From now on it is to be assumed that her perception of her work will change, even if it is at 60 years of age.

The malaya plays an unusual heroine in one of the strangest, most hyperbolic and creative films in the history of cinema.

She plays so many characters at once across parallel universes that it requires an intense exercise in concentration to lose count.

Her career and this milestone of hers make her an essential reference in recent Asian cinema.

and

, the film that marked a before and after for actors of Asian origin in Hollywood.

She reopened the doors to the likes of

, an Oscar winner 39 years after being discovered by Steven Spelberg.

Yeoh believes that the key to the film's success is having connected with so many people from different generations.

Even older women who admitted not fully understanding the

' tape said it was helpful in reconnecting with their daughters.

For Michelle Yeoh, a former stuntwoman, the Oscar is recognition of her talent beyond her physical prowess.

has become the best international showcase for a woman who won beauty pageants in her native Malaysia and caught the eye of Jackie Chan during the filming of a television commercial in the 1980s.

Now he says he loves what he does more than ever.

"I have a great passion for film acting," she excited for an Oscar tribute to say never give up.

"

. It took me 40 years, but it's here."

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