She is trained in martials arts and she has appeared in German and American productions including as a banker in the German-Luxembourgish television series Bad Banks.

She had to adapt to the change in culture and for a time she did not realise that she was treated differently because she was a German Vietnamese child.

[2] Kieu trained as an actor in Leipzig and then acted in drama series created for German or American TV.

[1] In 2014, she appeared as one of the three fates in the fantasy TV competition The Quest with Florence Kasumba and Stephanie Buddenbrock.

[1] Mai Duong Kieu portrays a nurse at Dr. Ricky's clinic in the 2021 film Gunpowder Milkshake.