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