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.
Known for
Grey's Anatomy
Lisa Saito
The Simpsons
Japanese Stewardess (voice)
The Simpsons
Dancing Woman #1 (voice)
Shameless
Dr. Ma
American Dad!
Kichiro (voice)
American Dad!
Woman (voice)
Columbo
Maid
Better Call Saul
Judge Metcalf
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Female Parking Attendant
Futurama
Amazonian (voice)
Bosch
Wanda Williams
2 Broke Girls
Su-Min
King of the Hill
Buddhist (voice)
Ghost Whisperer
Nurse Heather
Pulp Fiction
Gawker #1
Arrested Development
China Garden
The King of Queens
Connie
Full House
Nip/Tuck
Madam Rose
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Bureaucrat (voice)
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Additional Voices (voice)
Kung Fu Panda 4
Wolf Crime Boss / Bunny Waiter / Citizen #1 / Questioned Sheep (voice)
Mad About You
O.R. Nurse
Hannah Montana
Dr. Yamada
Good Luck Charlie
Coach Lutes
The Jamie Foxx Show
Gloria
The Wild Thornberrys
Leopard (voice)
Raising Hope
Mrs. Hwong
The Division
Caroline in the City
Actress
Dead to Me
Marcy
Ellen
Kate
Justice League
Tsukuri / Firefighter (voice)
Justice League
Tsukuri (voice)
Static Shock
Kim (voice)
The Proud Family
Additional Voices (voice)
The Proud Family
Marsha Mitsubishi / Teens (voice)
The Proud Family
Marsha Mitsubishi (voice)
Shake It Up
Michi
Viper
Police Operator
Even Stevens
Millie
Young & Hungry
Lilly
The Bucket List
Nurse Shing
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series
Head Protestor (voice)
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series
Shadowy Woman / Flower Vendor (voice)
Unstable
Meredith
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Self
Self Reliance
Lindsey
Cory in the House
Valerie
The American President
Leo's Secretary
Titus
Nurse Patty
Baskets
Ginny
Veronica's Closet
Event Official
Dead End: Paranormal Park
Barborah (voice)
It's a Wonderful Binge
Grandma
Suddenly Susan
Mrs. Fong
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Herself
The Thirteenth Year
Mrs. Nelson
The Campaign
Mrs. Yao
Life of the Party
Mediator
The Enigma with a Stigma
Cindy Wasser
Garfunkel and Oates
Susie
Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys
Shao Lin (voice)
Sawbones
Polito
Heathers
Mrs. Finn
Crash & Bernstein
Vice-Principal Takashi
Kitchen Confidential
Fran
A Little Italian Vacation
Ms. Polotzi
Stacked
Wanda at Large
Logan Lee & the Rise of the Purple Dawn
Auntie Bobbie
Snoops
Gail Nakamura
One Big Happy
Minister
Strip Mall
Guys Like Us
Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
Caricature Artist
Go-Go Boy Interrupted
Liz
Heavy Gear
RE-OPENING: A Lockdown Mockumentary
Renee Foreman
Dunston Checks In
Telephone Operator
Pee-wee's Big Holiday
Tourist at Snake Farm
Miss Valentine
Shelly Foster
I'm Totally Fine
Sandra