State Counsellor of Myanmar President of National League for Democracy Leader of the Opposition House Arrest General Elections Books Popular culture Family The Lady is a 2011 British biographical film directed by Luc Besson,[6] starring Michelle Yeoh[7] as Aung San Suu Kyi and David Thewlis[8] as her late husband Michael Aris.

[11] In 1988, Aung San Suu Kyi, now happily married with family in England, returns to Burma to see her ill mother, finding that her father is still widely remembered.

However, the Burmese military refuses to accept the results and moves to rein in Aung San Suu Kyi.

The military later offers Aung San Suu Kyi a chance to see her dying husband but she refuses, knowing that she will not be allowed to return to Burma.

Rebecca Frayn began working on the project after she and her husband, producer Andy Harries, had visited Burma in the early 1990s.

[17] The script was as British as its origin, telling the story solely from Michael Aris' perspective but Michelle Yeoh claimed she brought an Asian insight to it.

Her husband Jean Todt (who later also accompanied the project as accredited producer) encouraged her to contact his fellow countryman and friend Luc Besson.

[18][19][20] Besson accepted the script immediately as an opportunity for him to finally present a real life heroine, a female fighter who wields no other weapons than her human virtues.

[30][31] Some supporters provided Frayn information only because she wouldn't disclose these sources, and her work was openly appreciated by Suu Kyi's brother-in-law Anthony Aris.

[39] Once or twice the filming of a scene had to stop because Michelle Yeoh's performance of a speech (in Burmese) elicited outbursts of emotion among extras who had originally heard Suu Kyi.

He achieved authenticity of the happy time in Suu Kyi's life, when she lived with her family in the United Kingdom.

[43] Cohen Media Group, the US distributor of the film, had a one-week limited Academy Engagement theatrical run in Los Angeles during 2–8 December 2011.

[46] In Asia The Lady was closer of the International Hua Hin Film Festival where Michelle Yeoh declared she planned on visiting Burma again.