Merle Oberon is credited as the first actress of Asian descent to be nominated for an Academy Award. However, she kept her South Asian heritage hidden for her entire life — the truth coming out ...

Golden Age film star Merle Oberon comes alive in a breezy new biography, sparked in part by the 2023 news that she was half Asian, a secret she kept all her life. When Michelle Yeoh was nominated ...

Michelle Yeoh on Inspiring Younger Generations of Asian Actors: "We Deserve a Voice" Oberon was born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson in 1911 in Mumbai (then Bombay), India, to a mother of mixed ...

This is excerpted from the book Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star, by Mayukh Sen. Copyright © 2025 by the author and reprinted with ...

I recently spoke with writer Mayukh Sen whose new book, "Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star," chronicles Oberon's rise to fame, her groundbreaking career, and eventual ...

The chroniclers of classic-era Hollywood have never quite known what to do with Merle Oberon. A star whose beauty was celebrated, whose acting was tolerable and whose late-life vanity made her ...

The tweet was, however, more accurate than saying Yeoh was the first — because before Yeoh, there was Merle Oberon: a biracial actress who was nominated for best actress in 1936 for her role in ...

Golden Age film star Merle Oberon comes alive in a breezy new biography, sparked in part by the 2023 news that she was half Asian, a secret she kept all her life. When Michelle Yeoh was nominated ...