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
all 62
TV Shows 45
Movies 17
Voice 11
self 2
Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024)
Self Reliance (2024)
RE-OPENING: A Lockdown Mockumentary (2023)
It's a Wonderful Binge (2022)
I'm Totally Fine (2022)
Dead End: Paranormal Park (2022)
Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021)
A Little Italian Vacation (2021)
Logan Lee & the Rise of the Purple Dawn (2020)
Dead to Me (2019)
Heathers (2018)
Life of the Party (2018)
Pee-wee's Big Holiday (2016)
One Big Happy (2015)
Better Call Saul (2015)
Bosch (2015)
Go-Go Boy Interrupted (2014)
Garfunkel and Oates (2014)
Young & Hungry (2014)
Crash & Bernstein (2012)
The Campaign (2012)
2 Broke Girls (2011)
Shake It Up (2010)
Good Luck Charlie (2010)
The Bucket List (2007)
Cory in the House (2007)
The Enigma with a Stigma (2006)
Hannah Montana (2006)
Ghost Whisperer (2005)
Stacked (2005)
Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005)
American Dad! (2005)
Nip/Tuck (2003)
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series (2003)
Wanda at Large (2003)
Justice League (2001)
Heavy Gear (2001)
The Proud Family (2001)
The Division (2001)
Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000)
Static Shock (2000)
Strip Mall (2000)
Even Stevens (2000)
Titus (2000)
Futurama (1999)
Guys Like Us (1998)
The King of Queens (1998)
The Wild Thornberrys (1998)
Whose Line Is It Anyway? (1998)
King of the Hill (1997)
Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys (1996)
The Jamie Foxx Show (1996)
Dunston Checks In (1996)
The American President (1995)
Sawbones (1995)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Viper (1994)
Mad About You (1992)
The Simpsons (1989)
Whose Line Is It Anyway? (1988)
Full House (1987)
Columbo (1971)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1958-05-29 (65 years old)
Birth PlacePerris, California, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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