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.
81 acting credits
Acting · 81
Grey's Anatomy
2005
The Simpsons
1989
American Dad!
2005
Shameless
2011
Columbo
1971
Better Call Saul
2015
Bosch
2015
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
King of the Hill
1997
Ghost Whisperer
2005
Futurama
1999
Arrested Development
2003
2 Broke Girls
2011
The King of Queens
1998
Mad About You
1992
Full House
1987
Pulp Fiction
1994
Nip/Tuck
2003
Hannah Montana
2006
The Division
2001
Avatar: The Last Airbender
2005
The Wild Thornberrys
1998
Kung Fu Panda 4
2024
Good Luck Charlie
2010
Ellen
1994
Viper
1994
Raising Hope
2010
Caroline in the City
1995
Shake It Up
2010
The Proud Family
2001
Static Shock
2000
The Jamie Foxx Show
1996
Dead to Me
2019
Justice League
2001
Titus
2000
Even Stevens
2000
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
1998
Young & Hungry
2014
Veronica's Closet
1997
Suddenly Susan
1996
Baskets
2016
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series
2003
Cory in the House
2007
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
1988
Unstable
2023
Kitchen Confidential
2005
Snoops
1989
Garfunkel and Oates
2014
Heathers
2018
Crash & Bernstein
2012
Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys
1996
Dead End: Paranormal Park
2022
Wanda at Large
2003
The Bucket List
2007
Stacked
2005
Ultraman: Rising
2024
The American President
1995
Life of the Party
2018
The Campaign
2012
Heavy Gear
2001
Strip Mall
2000
Guys Like Us
1998
Go-Go Boy Interrupted
2014
One Big Happy
2015
Pee-wee's Big Holiday
2016
Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
2021
Self Reliance
2024
The Thirteenth Year
1999
It's a Wonderful Binge
2022
Dunston Checks In
1996
Shake It Up: Made in Japan
2012
Sawbones
1995
A Little Italian Vacation
2021
I'm Totally Fine
2022
The Enigma with a Stigma
2006
Miss Valentine
2025
Logan Lee & the Rise of the Purple Dawn
2020
RE-OPENING: A Lockdown Mockumentary
2023
Rudy Coby: Ridiculously Dangerous
1996
The Oracle
2026
I Don't Care
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