Karen Maruyama
Born: 1958-05-29 in U.S.A
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2026
2025
- Miss Valentine as Shelly Foster
2024
- Kung Fu Panda 4 as Wolf Crime Boss / Bunny Waiter / Citizen #1 / Questioned Sheep (voice)
- Ultraman: Rising as Oba-chan (voice)
- Self Reliance as Lindsey
2023
- Unstable as Meredith
- RE-OPENING: A Lockdown Mockumentary as Renee Foreman
2022
- Dead End: Paranormal Park as Barborah (voice)
- It's a Wonderful Binge as Grandma
- I'm Totally Fine as Sandra
2021
- Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar as Caricature Artist
- A Little Italian Vacation as Ms. Polotzi
2020
- Logan Lee & the Rise of the Purple Dawn as Auntie Bobbie
2019
- Dead to Me as Marcy
2018
- Heathers as Mrs. Finn
- Life of the Party as Mediator
2016
- Baskets as Ginny
- Pee-wee's Big Holiday as Tourist at Snake Farm
2015
- Better Call Saul as Judge Metcalf
- Bosch as Wanda Williams
- One Big Happy as Minister
2014
- Young & Hungry as Lilly
- Garfunkel and Oates as Susie
- Go-Go Boy Interrupted as Liz
2012
- Crash & Bernstein as Vice-Principal Takashi
- The Campaign as Mrs. Yao
- Shake It Up: Made in Japan as Michi
2011
- Shameless as Dr. Ma
- 2 Broke Girls as Su-Min
2010
- Good Luck Charlie as Coach Lutes
- Raising Hope as Mrs. Hwong
- Shake It Up as Michi
2007
- Cory in the House as Valerie
- The Bucket List as Nurse Shing
2006
- Hannah Montana as Dr. Yamada
- The Enigma with a Stigma as Cindy Wasser
2005
- Grey's Anatomy as Lisa Saito
- American Dad! as Kichiro (voice)
- Ghost Whisperer as Nurse Heather
- Avatar: The Last Airbender as Bureaucrat (voice)
- Stacked
- Kitchen Confidential as Fran
2003
- Nip/Tuck as Madam Rose
- Arrested Development as China Garden
- Spider-Man: The New Animated Series as Head Protestor (voice)
- Wanda at Large
2001
- The Division
- The Proud Family as Additional Voices (voice)
- Justice League as Tsukuri / Firefighter (voice)
- Heavy Gear
2000
- Curb Your Enthusiasm as Female Parking Attendant
- Static Shock as Kim (voice)
- Titus as Nurse Patty
- Even Stevens as Millie
- Strip Mall
1999
- Futurama as Amazonian (voice)
- The Thirteenth Year as Mrs. Nelson
1998
- The King of Queens as Connie
- The Wild Thornberrys as Leopard (voice)
- Whose Line Is It Anyway? as Self
- Guys Like Us
1997
- King of the Hill as Buddhist (voice)
- Veronica's Closet as Event Official
1996
- The Jamie Foxx Show as Gloria
- Suddenly Susan as Mrs. Fong
- Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys as Shao Lin (voice)
- Dunston Checks In as Telephone Operator
- Rudy Coby: Ridiculously Dangerous as Grandma
1995
- Caroline in the City as Actress
- The American President as Leo's Secretary
- Sawbones as Polito
1994
- Pulp Fiction as Gawker #1
- Ellen as Kate
- Viper as Police Operator
1992
- Mad About You as O.R. Nurse
1989
- The Simpsons as Japanese Stewardess (voice)
- Snoops as Gail Nakamura
1988
- Whose Line Is It Anyway? as Self
1987
1971
- Columbo as Maid