Karen Maruyama

Born: 1958-05-29

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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Kung Fu Panda 4

as Wolf Crime Boss / Bunny Waiter / Citizen #1 / Questioned Sheep (voice)
Released: 2024-03-02

Po is gearing up to become the spiritual leader of his Valley of Peace, but also needs someone...

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as Gawker #1
Released: 1994-09-10

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a...

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The Bucket List

as Nurse Shing
Released: 2007-12-25

Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart....

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Self Reliance

as Lindsey
Released: 2024-01-03

When a man is offered a million dollars to play a game in which hunters try to kill him, he...

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Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar

as Caricature Artist
Released: 2021-03-29

The story of best friends Barb and Star, who leave their small midwestern town for the first...

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It's a Wonderful Binge

as Grandma
Released: 2022-12-09

Like the original film, the sequel is set in a near future where all drinking and drugs are...

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Dunston Checks In

as Telephone Operator
Released: 1996-01-12

Hotel manager Robert Grant is forced by his boss to postpone his family vacation when a hotel...

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The Thirteenth Year

as Mrs. Nelson
Released: 1999-05-15

A teen learns that his birth mother is a mermaid after he begins to grow fins and slimy scales...

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as Mrs. Yao
Released: 2012-08-09

Two rival politicians compete to win an election to represent their small North Carolina...

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The American President

as Leo's Secretary
Released: 1995-11-17

Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything...

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Life of the Party

as Mediator
Released: 2018-05-10

When her husband suddenly dumps her, longtime dedicated housewife Deanna turns regret into...

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Pee-wee's Big Holiday

as Tourist at Snake Farm
Released: 2016-03-15

A fateful meeting with a mysterious stranger inspires Pee-wee Herman to take his first-ever holiday.

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I'm Totally Fine

as Sandra
Released: 2022-11-04

A woman in mourning takes a solo trip to clear her head after the death of her friend. However,...

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Sawbones

as Polito
Released: 1995-01-01

A former medical intern turned sadistic killer is on the loose... and only one woman knows his...

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The Enigma with a Stigma

as Cindy Wasser
Released: 2006-10-01

The original intent of this documentary was to tell the story of a couple preparing for their...

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A Little Italian Vacation

as Ms. Polotzi
Released: 2021-03-20

A group of high school Seniors juggle between old loves and new flings on the shores of a...

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Logan Lee & the Rise of the Purple Dawn

as Auntie Bobbie
Released: 2020-10-01

It's the night of the Hungry Ghost Festival, and Chinese-American scratch DJ Logan Lee is poised...

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RE-OPENING: A Lockdown Mockumentary

as Renee Foreman
Released: 2023-05-04

A fully-improvised lockdown mockumentary following the cast and crew of a struggling theater...

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The Simpsons

as Dancing Woman #1 (voice)
First aired: 1989-12-17

Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday...

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The Simpsons

as Japanese Stewardess (voice)
First aired: 1989-12-17

Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday...

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Shameless

as Dr. Ma
First aired: 2011-01-09

Chicagoan Frank Gallagher is the proud single dad of six smart, industrious, independent kids,...

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American Dad!

as Kichiro (voice)
First aired: 2005-02-06

The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three...

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American Dad!

as Woman (voice)
First aired: 2005-02-06

The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three...

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Futurama

as Amazonian (voice)
First aired: 1999-03-28

The adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who,...

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Better Call Saul

as Judge Metcalf
First aired: 2015-02-08

Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul...

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Columbo

as Maid
First aired: 1971-09-15

Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently...

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Curb Your Enthusiasm

as Female Parking Attendant
First aired: 2000-10-15

The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe...

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Ghost Whisperer

as Nurse Heather
First aired: 2005-09-23

Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, but sometimes the...

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2 Broke Girls

as Su-Min
First aired: 2011-09-19

Comedy about the unlikely friendship that develops between two very different young women who...

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King of the Hill

as Buddhist (voice)
First aired: 1997-01-12

Set in Texas, this animated series follows the life of propane salesman Hank Hill, who lives...

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Bosch

as Wanda Williams
First aired: 2015-01-14

Based on Michael Connelly's best-selling novels, these are the stories of relentless LAPD...

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Full House

as uncredited
First aired: 1987-09-22

After the death of his wife, Danny enlists his best friend and his brother-in-law to help raise...

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The King of Queens

as Connie
First aired: 1998-09-21

Life’s good for deliveryman Doug Heffernan, until his newly widowed father-in-law, Arthur, moves...

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Nip/Tuck

as uncredited
First aired: 2003-07-22

Hotshot plastic surgeons Dr. Sean McNamara and Dr. Christian Troy experience full-blown midlife...

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Arrested Development

as China Garden
First aired: 2003-11-02

The story of a wealthy family that lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to...

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Hannah Montana

as Dr. Yamada
First aired: 2006-03-24

At home and school, she's Miley Stewart, a typical teenager, but when the lights go down and the...

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Good Luck Charlie

as Coach Lutes
First aired: 2010-04-04

Teens PJ and Teddy and tween brother Gabe are typical kids -- that is, until their mother has...

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Mad About You

as O.R. Nurse
First aired: 1992-09-23

Young, urban newlyweds Paul and Jamie Buchman try to sustain their marital bliss while...

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Avatar: The Last Airbender

as Bureaucrat (voice)
First aired: 2005-02-21

In a war-torn world of elemental magic, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic...

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The Wild Thornberrys

as Leopard (voice)
First aired: 1998-09-01

The Wild Thornberrys is an American animated television series that aired on Nickelodeon.

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Shake It Up

as Michi
First aired: 2010-11-07

Best pals CeCe and Rocky dream of dancing stardom. And they seem on the verge of realizing that...

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Static Shock

as Kim (voice)
First aired: 2000-09-23

The adventures of a teenage superhero who fights crime in Dakota City.

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Viper

as Police Operator
First aired: 1994-01-02

Viper is an action-adventure TV series about a special task force set up by the federal...

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Dead to Me

as Marcy
First aired: 2019-05-03

A hotheaded widow searching for the hit-and-run driver who mowed down her husband befriends an...

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The Division

as uncredited
First aired: 2001-01-07

The Division is an American crime drama television series created by Deborah Joy LeVine and...

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The Proud Family

as Additional Voices (voice)
First aired: 2001-09-15

Follow the adventures and misadventures of Penny, a 14-year-old African American girl who's...

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The Proud Family

as Marsha Mitsubishi (voice)
First aired: 2001-09-15

Follow the adventures and misadventures of Penny, a 14-year-old African American girl who's...

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The Proud Family

as Marsha Mitsubishi / Teens (voice)
First aired: 2001-09-15

Follow the adventures and misadventures of Penny, a 14-year-old African American girl who's...

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Ellen

as Kate
First aired: 1994-03-29

Ellen is an American television sitcom that aired on the ABC network from March 29, 1994 to July...

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Spider-Man: The New Animated Series

as Shadowy Woman / Flower Vendor (voice)
First aired: 2003-07-11

Bitten by an irradiated spider, teenager Peter Parker gains arachnid-like powers that make him...

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Spider-Man: The New Animated Series

as Head Protestor (voice)
First aired: 2003-07-11

Bitten by an irradiated spider, teenager Peter Parker gains arachnid-like powers that make him...

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Whose Line Is It Anyway?

as Self
First aired: 1998-08-05

The show where everything's made up and the points don't matter. Not a talk show, not a sitcom,...

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Caroline in the City

as Actress
First aired: 1995-09-21

Caroline in the City is an American situation comedy that ran on the NBC television network. It...

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The Jamie Foxx Show

as uncredited
First aired: 1996-08-28

Texas native Jamie King is an aspiring actor who heads to Hollywood in hopes to find fame and...

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Even Stevens

as uncredited
First aired: 2000-06-17

The Stevens are a middle-class family living in Sacramento, CA. Husband and father Steve is a...

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Cory in the House

as Valerie
First aired: 2007-01-12

It's a brand new life for Cory Baxter when his dad, Victor, becomes the personal chef to the...

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Justice League

as Tsukuri / Firefighter (voice)
First aired: 2001-11-17

The long-awaited rebirth of the greatest superhero team of all time: Batman, Superman, Wonder...

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Justice League

as Tsukuri (voice)
First aired: 2001-11-17

The long-awaited rebirth of the greatest superhero team of all time: Batman, Superman, Wonder...

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Young & Hungry

as Lilly
First aired: 2014-06-25

Two worlds collide when Josh, a wealthy young tech entrepreneur, meets Gabi, a feisty young food...

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Whose Line Is It Anyway?

as Herself
First aired: 1988-09-23

An un-scripted comedy show in which four guest performers improvise their way through a series...

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Suddenly Susan

as Mrs. Fong
First aired: 1996-09-19

Suddenly Susan is an American television sitcom. Shields plays Susan Keane, a glamorous San...

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Titus

as uncredited
First aired: 2000-03-20

Titus is an American dark comedy sitcom that debuted on Fox in 2000. The series was created by...

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Baskets

as Ginny
First aired: 2016-01-21

Chip Baskets wants to follow his dream of being a French clown—however, reality keeps...

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Crash & Bernstein

as Vice-Principal Takashi
First aired: 2012-10-08

Wyatt Bernstein is a typical boy who lives n a household full of females. Wyatt desperately...

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Unstable

as Meredith
First aired: 2023-03-30

He's an eccentric biotech genius. His son's a pragmatist living in his shadow. To save the...

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Veronica's Closet

as Event Official
First aired: 1997-09-25

Veronica 'Ronnie' Chase is the 'Queen of Romance.' Founder of a successful lingerie empire, and...

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Garfunkel and Oates

as Susie
First aired: 2014-08-07

The comic/folk duo Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci hit prime time with their act in this scripted...

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Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys

as Shao Lin (voice)
First aired: 1996-09-07

Lost in space during a NASA mission, a monkey encounters an alien race that gives him enhanced...

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Dead End: Paranormal Park

as Barborah (voice)
First aired: 2022-06-16

Two teens and a talking pug team up to battle demons at a haunted theme park — and maybe even...

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Stacked

as uncredited
First aired: 2005-04-13

Stacked is an American television sitcom that premiered on Fox on April 13, 2005. On May 18,...

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Heathers

as Mrs. Finn
First aired: 2018-10-25

A pitch-black comedy anthology set in the present day, as our heroine Veronica Sawyer deals with...

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Heavy Gear

as uncredited
First aired: 2001-09-22

Coliseum-type gladiator battles on the planet Terra Nova in the year 6132 pit good robots...

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Wanda at Large

as uncredited
First aired: 2003-03-26

Wanda at Large is an American sitcom that ran for two seasons on the Fox network in 2003. The...

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One Big Happy

as Minister
First aired: 2015-03-17

Best friends Lizzy (gay and a bit type-A) and Luke (straight and more laid back) are like...

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Strip Mall

as uncredited
First aired: 2000-06-18

Tammi Tyler is an ex-child actress who, at 12, murdered her adult co-star after eating a PCP...

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Go-Go Boy Interrupted

as Liz
First aired: 2014-10-07

Jimmy Fowlie (writer/actor) developed the concept for “Go-­Go Boy Interrupted” from his time as...

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