She attended the Kai Xiu Senior Girls School in Shanghai, then later studied acting at the Far East Film College.

She completed nine films with the company, including Heroine Li Feifei (1925),[2] in which she portrayed a young woman who is almost driven to suicide after her engagement is threatened by a conniving manipulator.

[3] She played supporting roles in several films starring Hu Die,[2] including Repentance (1925) and The Traumatic Romance of Liang and Zhu (1926).

[5] Wu gained a reputation for action, frequently being depicted as fighting men,[4] and most of the films she did for Huaju were in the wuxia genre.

[8] In The Valiant Girl White Rose (1929), Wu portrayed a teenage athlete who disguises herself as a man to save her father; she also served as assistant director on the film.

Records of her activities afterwards are lacking,[2] though she was reported to be appearing with Yang Naimei and Zhang Zhiyun in cameos in the Hong Kong musical comedy Heavenly Beauty.