[9][4][10] Born in Los Angeles, California, Hsueh made two films as a child actress, China's Little Devils  (1945) and Intrigue (1947), on which her father served as a technical adviser.

"[15] In 1967, she was cast as the female lead in the CBS soap opera Love is a Many Splendored Thing.

The series was initially intended as a continuation of the 1955 film of the same name, which told the story of an interracial relationship between an American reporter and a Eurasian doctor.

[8][10] Her most prominent film role was as Boris Karloff's personal assistant in Peter Bogdanovich's Targets (1968).

[16] She had only a few small parts in film and television in the 1970s; her final acting role was in House Calls (1978).