Name
Karen Maruyama
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1958-05-29 (68 years old)
Place of Birth
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.
Known For
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A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a wa...
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Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds ap...
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When a man is offered a million dollars to play a game in which hunters try to kill him, h...
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Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have any...
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Two rival politicians compete to win an election to represent their small North Carolina c...
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When her husband suddenly dumps her, longtime dedicated housewife Deanna turns regret into...
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The story of best friends Barb and Star, who leave their small midwestern town for the fir...
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Hotel manager Robert Grant is forced by his boss to postpone his family vacation when a ho...
- 1994 Pulp Fiction as Gawker #1
- 1995 Sawbones as Polito
- 2012 The Campaign as Mrs. Yao
- 2020 Logan Lee & the Rise of the Purple Dawn as Auntie Bobbie
- 2022 It's a Wonderful Binge as Grandma
- 2024 Self Reliance as Lindsey
- 2024 Kung Fu Panda 4 as Wolf Crime Boss / Bunny Waiter / Citizen #1 / Questioned Sheep (voice)
- 2023 RE-OPENING: A Lockdown Mockumentary as Renee Foreman
- 2007 The Bucket List as Nurse Shing
- 1999 The Thirteenth Year as Mrs. Nelson
- 2024 Ultraman: Rising as Oba-chan (voice)
- 2006 The Enigma with a Stigma as Cindy Wasser
- 2018 Life of the Party as Mediator
- 1996 Dunston Checks In as Telephone Operator
- 1995 The American President as Leo's Secretary
- 2022 I'm Totally Fine as Sandra
- 2021 A Little Italian Vacation as Ms. Polotzi
- 2021 Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar as Caricature Artist
- 2016 Pee-wee's Big Holiday as Tourist at Snake Farm
- 2025 Miss Valentine as Shelly Foster
- 2012 Shake It Up: Made in Japan as Michi
- 1996 Rudy Coby: Ridiculously Dangerous as Grandma
- 2026 The Oracle as Nina Smolinsky
- Soon I Don't Care as Joan
- 2000 Titus ( 1 episode ) as Nurse Patty
- 2005 American Dad! ( 1 episode ) as Kichiro (voice)
- 2000 Static Shock ( 1 episode ) as Kim (voice)
- 2005 Ghost Whisperer ( 3 episodes ) as Nurse Heather
- 2001 The Division ( 1 episode )
- 1997 King of the Hill ( 1 episode ) as Buddhist (voice)
- 1996 The Jamie Foxx Show ( 11 episodes ) as Gloria
- 2000 Even Stevens ( 1 episode ) as Millie
- 2003 Nip/Tuck ( 1 episode ) as Madam Rose
- 2000 Strip Mall ( 6 episodes )
- 1996 Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys ( 26 episodes ) as Shao Lin (voice)
- 2005 Stacked ( 1 episode )
- 1987 Full House ( 1 episode )
- 2003 Wanda at Large ( 2 episodes )
- 2001 Heavy Gear ( 40 episodes )
- 1994 Viper ( 1 episode ) as Police Operator
- 2022 Dead End: Paranormal Park ( 7 episodes ) as Barborah (voice)
- 2001 Justice League ( 1 episode ) as Tsukuri / Firefighter (voice)
- 2001 Justice League ( 1 episode ) as Tsukuri (voice)
- 1998 The Wild Thornberrys ( 1 episode ) as Leopard (voice)
- 2011 2 Broke Girls ( 1 episode ) as Su-Min
- 1992 Mad About You ( 1 episode ) as O.R. Nurse
- 2014 Young & Hungry ( 1 episode ) as Lilly
- 2005 American Dad! ( 1 episode ) as Woman (voice)
- 2000 Curb Your Enthusiasm ( 1 episode ) as Female Parking Attendant
- 2015 One Big Happy ( 1 episode ) as Minister
- 1971 Columbo ( 1 episode ) as Maid
- 2015 Bosch ( 1 episode ) as Wanda Williams
- 2015 Better Call Saul ( 1 episode ) as Judge Metcalf
- 1999 Futurama ( 1 episode ) as Amazonian (voice)
- 2003 Spider-Man: The New Animated Series ( 1 episode ) as Shadowy Woman / Flower Vendor (voice)
- 2003 Spider-Man: The New Animated Series ( 1 episode ) as Head Protestor (voice)
- 2012 Crash & Bernstein ( 1 episode ) as Vice-Principal Takashi
- 2001 The Proud Family ( 2 episodes ) as Additional Voices (voice)
- 2001 The Proud Family ( 1 episode ) as Marsha Mitsubishi (voice)
- 2001 The Proud Family ( 1 episode ) as Marsha Mitsubishi / Teens (voice)
- 2005 Avatar: The Last Airbender ( 1 episode ) as Bureaucrat (voice)
- 2006 Hannah Montana ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Yamada
- 1998 The King of Queens ( 1 episode ) as Connie
- 2003 Arrested Development ( 3 episodes ) as China Garden
- 2007 Cory in the House ( 1 episode ) as Valerie
- 2019 Dead to Me ( 1 episode ) as Marcy
- 2018 Heathers ( 4 episodes ) as Mrs. Finn
- 2010 Good Luck Charlie ( 1 episode ) as Coach Lutes
- 1994 Ellen ( 1 episode ) as Kate
- 2023 Unstable ( 1 episode ) as Meredith
- 1996 Suddenly Susan ( 6 episodes ) as Mrs. Fong
- 2014 Garfunkel and Oates ( 1 episode ) as Susie
- 2010 Shake It Up ( 1 episode ) as Michi
- 1995 Caroline in the City ( 1 episode ) as Actress
- 2014 Go-Go Boy Interrupted ( 1 episode ) as Liz
- 1988 Whose Line Is It Anyway? ( 4 episodes ) as Self
- 1998 Whose Line Is It Anyway? ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 1997 Veronica's Closet ( 1 episode ) as Event Official
- 1989 The Simpsons ( 1 episode ) as Dancing Woman #1 (voice)
- 1989 The Simpsons ( 1 episode ) as Japanese Stewardess (voice)
- 2011 Shameless ( 2 episodes ) as Dr. Ma
- 2016 Baskets ( 3 episodes ) as Ginny
- 1989 Snoops ( 1 episode ) as Gail Nakamura
- 2010 Raising Hope ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Hwong
- 2005 Grey's Anatomy ( 1 episode ) as Lisa Saito
- 2005 Avatar: The Last Airbender ( 1 episode ) as Additional Voices (voice)
- 2005 Kitchen Confidential ( 1 episode ) as Fran
- 1989 Doogie Howser, M.D. ( 1 episode ) as Kathy Walker
