Before she got famous for her role as Ling Woo in Ally McBeal, Liu played an exotic dancer in the 1997 film City Industry where she bares her nipples on stage.
Liu's film work includes starring as one of the heroines in Charlie's Angels 2000 , portrayed O-Ren Ishii in Kill Bill 2003 , and starring roles in the main casts of Payback 1999 , Chicago 2002 , and the animated film series Kung Fu Panda 2008—present portraying the character Master Viper.
She became known for playing the role of the vicious and ill-mannered Ling Woo in the television series Ally McBeal 1998—2002 , for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series.