Before she was an Oscar winner, Michelle Yeoh was Miss Moomba International

Before her history-making Academy Award win, actor Michelle Yeoh once played a pivotal role in an iconic Melbourne festival.

Help keep family & friends informed by sharing this articleIt turns out Michelle Yeoh really can be Everything Everywhere All at Once, including being pulled along Melbourne's Swanston Street by a big red tractor on a sunny day in 1984.

Talking to UK talk show host Graham Norton earlier this year, Yeoh said her mother had initially prompted her to enter her first pageant.Riding the crest of the beauty pageant wave, the 21-year-old then swept through the field at Moomba's international beauty quest, leaving Miss Tahiti and Miss Chile in her wake.

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