At the 2006 Australian Film Institute’s Industry Awards, Lung won the award for Outstanding Achievement in Short Film Screen Craft for her acting work on the short film Stranded.

At the 2007 Logie awards, Lung won the Graham Kennedy Award For Most Outstanding New Talent.

At the 2008 Australian Film Institute’s Industry Awards, Lung was nominated for Best Lead Actress for her performance in The Jammed.

Lung played Carmelita in the short-lived Australian drama series The Cooks. She received her breakthrough role in the film Peaches starring alongside Jacqueline McKenzie and Hugo Weaving. She starred in the movie 48 Shades alongside Victoria Thaine and Richard Wilson. Lung starred in Christopher Smith’s Triangle. She starred in the 2012 psychological thriller Crave alongside Josh Lawson, Edward Furlong, and Ron Perlman; the film was directed by Charles de Lauzirika. She played Lola, the scheming wife of second son Marou Montebello in ABC’s 2012 series The Straits. Lung played Colette Riger, a teacher, in the television show Wonderland, which aired on Channel 10 from 2013 to 2015.

Lung married Henry Zalapa in 2013. They had their first child, son Marlowe James Zalapa was born on 5 April 2015.