Hu's career focused on melodramatic romantic films including I sing I cry (我歌我泣 ), The Coldest Winter in Peking (皇天后土) (for which she was nominated for the Golden Horse as Best Actress in 1981).
Hu was seriously burned in an explosion stunt during the filming of Devil Hunters, but eventually recovered.
[citation needed] Hu's career faded in the late 1990s, when she retired and married Patrick Ho, a businessman from Hong Kong.
She has since been seen with her husband at various social functions, and in 2000 gave birth to her first child, Audrey Ho Ka Chun.
[citation needed] Hu is credited as the writer of the 2002 film Life Show.