 In his teens, Yue appeared in productions such as The King and I and South Pacific at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.However, acting took a back seat during his musical career until the 1980s, when he began to be cast in British film and television, usually in stereotypical Chinese roles such as waiters and minor villains.He was initially offered work by Granada TV as an extra, and of this he says, From the early 1990s onwards, Yue has appeared in numerous productions and in 2006 branched out into theatre, starring in "Kensuke's Kingdom" across the country and finally at London's Bloomsbury Theatre.