Karen Maruyama
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.
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Movies (25)
The Musical
2026 · Ms. Belkin
The Oracle
2026 · Nina Smolinsky
Miss Valentine
2025 · Shelly Foster
Ultraman: El ascenso
2024 · Oba-chan (voice)
Kung Fu Panda 4
2024 · Wolf Crime Boss / Bunny Waiter / Citizen #1 / Questioned Sheep (voice)
Autosuficiencia
2024 · Lindsey
RE-OPENING: A Lockdown Mockumentary
2023 · Renee Foreman
Una noche descontrolada: Tiempo de Navidad
2022 · Grandma
Mi amiga es un extraterrestre
2022 · Sandra
Barb y Star van a Vista Del Mar
2021 · Caricature Artist
A Little Italian Vacation
2021 · Ms. Polotzi
Logan Lee & the Rise of the Purple Dawn
2020 · Auntie Bobbie
El alma de la fiesta
2018 · Mediator
Las grandes vacaciones de Pee-Wee
2016 · Tourist at Snake Farm
Shake It Up: Made in Japan
2012 · Michi
Locos por los votos
2012 · Mrs. Yao
Antes de Partir
2007 · Nurse Shing
The Enigma with a Stigma
2006 · Cindy Wasser
The Thirteenth Year
1999 · Mrs. Nelson
Rudy Coby: Ridiculously Dangerous
1996 · Grandma
Dunston Checks In
1996 · Telephone Operator
The American President
1995 · Leo's Secretary
Sawbones
1995 · Polito
Pulp Fiction
1994 · Gawker #1
I Don't Care
· Joan
TV shows (59)
TRIPWIRE
2026 · Boss
Inestable
2023 · Meredith
Dead End: El parque del terror
2022 · Barborah (voice)
Muertos para mí
2019 · Marcy
Heathers: Escuela de jóvenes asesinos
2018 · Mrs. Finn
Nobodies
2017 · Ms. Park
Baskets
2016 · Ginny
One Big Happy
2015 · Minister
Better Call Saul
2015 · Judge Metcalf
Bosch
2015 · Wanda Williams
Go-Go Boy Interrupted
2014 · Liz
Garfunkel and Oates
2014 · Susie
Joven y hambriento
2014 · Lilly
Crash & Bernstein
2012 · Vice-Principal Takashi
2 Chicas Quebradas
2011 · Su-Min
Shameless
2011 · Dr. Ma
A todo ritmo
2010 · Michi
Raising Hope
2010 · Mrs. Hwong
¡Buena suerte Charlie!
2010 · Coach Lutes
Cory in the House
2007 · Valerie
Hannah Montana
2006 · Dr. Yamada
Almas perdidas
2005 · Nurse Heather
Kitchen Confidential
2005 · Fran
Stacked
2005
Grey's Anatomy
2005 · Lisa Saito
Avatar: La leyenda de Aang
2005 · Bureaucrat (voice), Additional Voices (voice)
American Dad!
2005 · Kichiro (voice), Woman (voice)
Arrested Development
2003 · China Garden
Cortes y puntadas
2003 · Madam Rose
El Hombre-Araña: La Serie
2003 · Head Protestor (voice), Shadowy Woman / Flower Vendor (voice)
Wanda at Large
2003
Liga de la Justicia
2001 · Tsukuri / Firefighter (voice), Tsukuri (voice)
Heavy Gear
2001
La Familia Proud
2001 · Additional Voices (voice), Marsha Mitsubishi / Teens (voice), Marsha Mitsubishi (voice)
The Division
2001
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000 · Female Parking Attendant
Static Shock
2000 · Kim (voice)
Strip Mall
2000
Even Stevens
2000 · Millie
Titus
2000 · Nurse Patty
Futurama
1999 · Amazonian (voice)
The King of Queens
1998 · Connie
The Wild Thornberrys
1998 · Leopard (voice)
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
1998 · Self
Veronica's Closet
1997 · Event Official
King of the Hill
1997 · Buddhist (voice)
Suddenly Susan
1996 · Mrs. Fong
Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys
1996 · Shao Lin (voice)
The Jamie Foxx Show
1996 · Gloria
Caroline in the City
1995 · Actress
Ellen
1994 · Kate
Viper
1994 · Police Operator
Mad About You
1992 · O.R. Nurse
Los Simpson
1989 · Japanese Stewardess (voice), Dancing Woman #1 (voice)
Snoops
1989 · Gail Nakamura
Doogie Howser, M.D.
1989 · Kathy Walker
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
1988 · Self
Full House
1987
Columbo
1971 · Maid