Karen Maruyama

Known for ActingBorn 1958-05-29 (age 68)U.S.A

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Miss Valentine

Shake It Up: Made in Japan

Better Call Saul

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Pulp Fiction

Futurama

Shameless

Ultraman: Rising

Grey's Anatomy

Justice League

Ghost Whisperer

Bosch

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Crash & Bernstein

Good Luck Charlie

Static Shock

Arrested Development

The Simpsons

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Columbo

The Proud Family

Shake It Up

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Raising Hope

Dead End: Paranormal Park

Dead to Me

Heavy Gear

King of the Hill

Full House

2 Broke Girls

The Bucket List

Kung Fu Panda 4

RE-OPENING: A Lockdown Mockumentary

Spider-Man: The New Animated Series

Nip/Tuck

A Little Italian Vacation

Hannah Montana

Stacked

The Division

Unstable

The King of Queens

Baskets

American Dad!

Even Stevens

Garfunkel and Oates

Kitchen Confidential

The Wild Thornberrys

Titus