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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 6.033 |
Birthday | 1958-05-29 |
Place of Birth | U.S.A |
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1994
Pulp Fiction
8.5/27746
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime cape...
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Pulp Fiction
1995
Sawbones
5/3
A former medical intern turned sadistic killer is on the loose... and only one woman knows his true identity. Can she stop him in time before she beco...
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Sawbones
2012
The Campaign
5.8/1714
Two rival politicians compete to win an election to represent their small North Carolina congressional district in the United States House of Represen...
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The Campaign
2020
Logan Lee & the Rise of the Purple Dawn
5.3/3
It's the night of the Hungry Ghost Festival, and Chinese-American scratch DJ Logan Lee is poised to make his live debut at his best friend Beatrice Pa...
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Logan Lee & the Rise of the Purple Dawn
2022
It's a Wonderful Binge
5/99
Like the original film, the sequel is set in a near future where all drinking and drugs are banned except for on one glorious day known as The Binge....
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It's a Wonderful Binge
2024
Self Reliance
6/158
When a man is offered a million dollars to play a game in which hunters try to kill him, he thinks he has found the perfect loophole: they can only at...
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Self Reliance
2024
Kung Fu Panda 4
7.092/2595
Po is gearing up to become the spiritual leader of his Valley of Peace, but also needs someone to take his place as Dragon Warrior. As such, he will t...
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Kung Fu Panda 4
2023
RE-OPENING: A Lockdown Mockumentary
0/0
A fully-improvised lockdown mockumentary following the cast and crew of a struggling theater (All Voice IS Theater) in Pigeon Valley, Tennessee. They...
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RE-OPENING: A Lockdown Mockumentary
2007
The Bucket List
7.184/3726
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital r...
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The Bucket List
1999
The Thirteenth Year
6.6/220
A teen learns that his birth mother is a mermaid after he begins to grow fins and slimy scales on his thirteenth birthday.
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The Thirteenth Year
2006
The Enigma with a Stigma
0/0
The original intent of this documentary was to tell the story of a couple preparing for their wedding day. During the filming, things took a dramatic...
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The Enigma with a Stigma
2018
Life of the Party
6.1/972
When her husband suddenly dumps her, longtime dedicated housewife Deanna turns regret into re-set by going back to college... landing in the same clas...
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Life of the Party
1996
Dunston Checks In
5.4/222
Hotel manager Robert Grant is forced by his boss to postpone his family vacation when a hotel critic checks in. Trouble is, the critic is really a vil...
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Dunston Checks In
1995
The American President
6.543/698
Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen Wa...
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The American President
2022
I'm Totally Fine
6.4/17
A woman in mourning takes a solo trip to clear her head after the death of her friend. However, Vanessa’s self-care vacation plans change when she’s m...
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I'm Totally Fine
2021
A Little Italian Vacation
7/8
A group of high school Seniors juggle between old loves and new flings on the shores of a beautiful Italian town.
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A Little Italian Vacation
2021
Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
6/233
The story of best friends Barb and Star, who leave their small midwestern town for the first time to go on vacation in Vista Del Mar, Florida, where t...
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Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
2016
Pee-wee's Big Holiday
6.1/225
A fateful meeting with a mysterious stranger inspires Pee-wee Herman to take his first-ever holiday.
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