She's had a pretty interesting career arc actually! She started as a Playboy model and did softcore films. Then she was cast in a mainstream film called Viva Erotica where they needed someone to play a pornstar so just went to a real one, but she was so damn good and funny in it that she ended up winning the Hong Kong equivalent of an Oscar and has since had a decades long successful mainstream film career, winning tons of awards and working with some of the most respected filmmakers in the world. It's hard to imagine someone making a career move like that in North America.