Career
She was the first wife of acclaimed Hong Kong actor, Chow Yun-fat. Between 1977 and 1979, she starred in six of Chu Yuan"s sword films, including Death Duel, The Sentimental Swordsman, Legend of the Bat, Murder Plot, and two Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre films. In the late 1970s, Yu also began appearing on television, notably the Rediffusion television series Reincarnated, and her appearances as Princess Xiang Xiang in the martial arts series Book and Sword.
In 1984 she portrayed a lesbian in the film Lust Foreign Love of a Chinese Courtesan.
In 1992, Yu had a cameo role in Swordsman 2, directed by Tsui Hark. In 2005, Yu came out of retirement to appear in Derek Yee"s film 2 Young.
She has since rekindled her career, appearing in two films in 2006 Rob-B-Hood and My Name Is Fame and four films in 2007, including Whispers And Moans, House of Mahjong, Exodus, and Beauty And The 7 Beasts.
