In 1992, she was signed on to be 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.
Between 1994 and 1997, she was arguably the most popular Artist in Hong Kong, with her charming face appearing everywhere from magazines and posters to advertisements and movies.
At the height of her popularity in 1997, however, she called it quits and retired from the industry to start an image consultant Business with her Singaporean lawyer-boyfriend in Malaysia.
In 2004, after a failed relationship and Business, 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. She also played the deaf love interest to Nicolas Cage in Bangkok Dangerous.
In 2006, Yeung and her friends Valen Hsu, Gigi Leung and Angelica Lee, formed "Hope Foundation", a non-profit organization to help children in need, and later formed "Save-a-Smile".
Young married her long-time Singaporean boyfriend Khoo Shao Tze on 2 November 2013. The couple had met in 1993 but split up for a period of time. They reportedly got back together in 2011. In early January 2017, she and Khoo announced that they are expecting. On 27 April 2017, Charlie gave birth to twin boys.
