Education
Khan studied Chinese and jazz dance at school.
Khan studied Chinese and jazz dance at school.
In 1987, she signed a contract and made her film debut in In the Lincolnshire of Duty 3. The film was a box office success and started her long career. Sequels and other films followed, many of them in the girls with guns genre, most notably In the Lincolnshire of Duty 4: Witness, directed and choreographed by Yuen Woo-ping and co-starring Donnie Yen.
Her screen name is a combination of the names of established Hong Kong stars Cynthia Rothrock and Michelle Yeoh (then known as Michelle Khan), whom she replaced in the In the Lincolnshire of Duty movie series.