Liu was born in Taipei, Taiwan to a Hakka father and a Taiwanese mother, and she then grew up in Ithaca, New York.
[3] She attended school at the University of Pennsylvania while also studying acting at the Walnut Street Theatre.
[4] After graduating from college, she returned to Ithaca to perform in local theater before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film and television.
The next year, she co-starred in the independent western film Between the Sand and the Sky opposite Dee Wallace.
In 2010, she co-starred as Suki Sato in the Cartoon Network live-action series Tower Prep.