In 1992, she signed on as a singer with EMI (Hong Kong). After releasing a couple of albums with some success (she won the
TVB Jade Solid Gold (1993)'s Gold Award of "The Best New Female Singer"), she made her feature-film debut in Wong Kar-wai’s arthouse
martial arts film Ashes of Time alongside superstars such as
Leslie Cheung,
Tony Leung Chiu-wai and
Brigitte Lin. In 1994, she made her first collaboration with director
Tsui Hark in the film
The Lovers (梁祝). Yeung was cast as the female lead, Zhu Yingtai opposite
Nicky Wu's Liang Shanbo. Her performance received widespread critical acclaim, rising Yeung to stardom. The film today has been hailed as Yeung's most representative work to date. However, in 1997 she retired from the industry to start an image consultant business with her
Singaporean lawyer-boyfriend in
Malaysia. In 2004, she made her comeback as the lead actress in
Jackie Chan's
New Police Story. Following that, she collaborated once again with
Tsui Hark in the martial arts movie
Seven Swords and starred alongside
Andy Lau in the love movie
All About Love. She later co-starred in the film
After This Our Exile opposite
Aaron Kwok. She has made plans to appear in a sequel to
Seven Swords. ==Personal life==