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Karen Maruyama

Acting

Born May 29, 1958 · U.S.A

Biography

Karen Maruyama is an American actress and comedienne. She has appeared on television in supporting roles in a number of sitcoms, including recurring characters on The Jamie Foxx Show, Strip Mall, Suddenly Susan, and Arrested Development. Maruyama is well known as an improv performer and instructor, and was a featured guest on both the American and British versions of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, as well as a member of The Groundlings. She also appeared as a parking lot attendant in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. She also played a nurse in The Bucket List (2007) and a housekeeper in the 2012 film The Campaign. She is part of the cast of The Jim Henson Company's live stage show "Puppet Up! - Uncensored" which has toured to Aspen, Las Vegas, Edinburgh, Sydney and Melbourne and is currently appearing monthly at Avalon Hollywood. In 2013, on the serie 2 Broke Girls (third season, seventh episode), she appears how Han's mother, under the name Su-Min. Karen was also featured as a fashion victim in an episode of the makeover show How Do I Look?. She also appeared as a non-celebrity contestant on the 1984 CBS game show, Body Language, under the name Karen Upshaw, saying she was from Perris, California. She was paired with celebrity players Ted Lange and Constance Towers. She was also on The New $25,000 Pyramid in 1983 with Audrey Landers and Michael McKean.

Filmography50+ titles

Avatar: The Last Airbender

2005as Bureaucrat (voice)

Better Call Saul

2015as Judge Metcalf

Pulp Fiction

1994as Gawker #1

Futurama

1999as Amazonian (voice)

Shameless

2011as Dr. Ma

Grey's Anatomy

2005as Lisa Saito

Justice League

2001as Tsukuri / Firefighter (voice)

Ghost Whisperer

2005as Nurse Heather

Columbo

1971as Maid

Ultraman: Rising

2024as Oba-chan (voice)

Curb Your Enthusiasm

2000as Female Parking Attendant

Static Shock

2000as Kim (voice)

The Simpsons

1989as Japanese Stewardess (voice)

Bosch

2015as Wanda Williams

Good Luck Charlie

2010as Coach Lutes

Arrested Development

2003as China Garden

Crash & Bernstein

as Vice-Principal Takashi

The Proud Family

2001as Marsha Mitsubishi / Teens (voice)

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

1998as Self

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

1988as Self

Shake It Up

2010as Michi

Full House

1987

Raising Hope

2010as Mrs. Hwong

King of the Hill

1997as Buddhist (voice)

Dead End: Paranormal Park

2022as Barborah (voice)

Dead to Me

2019as Marcy

2 Broke Girls

2011as Su-Min

The Bucket List

2007as Nurse Shing

Hannah Montana

2006as Dr. Yamada

Nip/Tuck

2003as Madam Rose

Spider-Man: The New Animated Series

2003as Shadowy Woman / Flower Vendor (voice)

The King of Queens

1998as Connie

Kung Fu Panda 4

2024as Wolf Crime Boss / Bunny Waiter / Citizen #1 / Questioned Sheep (voice)

A Little Italian Vacation

2021as Ms. Polotzi

American Dad!

2005as Woman (voice)

Even Stevens

2000as Millie

The Wild Thornberrys

1998as Leopard (voice)

Baskets

2016as Ginny

Garfunkel and Oates

2014as Susie

Unstable

2023as Meredith

Cory in the House

2007as Valerie

The Jamie Foxx Show

1996as Gloria

Young & Hungry

2014as Lilly

Mad About You

1992as O.R. Nurse

Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys

as Shao Lin (voice)

The Thirteenth Year

1999as Mrs. Nelson

Heathers

2018as Mrs. Finn

The American President

1995as Leo's Secretary

Doogie Howser, M.D.

1989as Kathy Walker

I'm Totally Fine

2022as Sandra