Karen Maruyama
Acting
1958-05-29 · U.S.A
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
The Oracle
2026 · Movie
Miss Valentine
2025 · Movie
Ultraman: Rising
2024 · Movie
Kung Fu Panda 4
2024 · Movie
Self Reliance
2024 · Movie
RE-OPENING: A Lockdown Mockumentary
2023 · Movie
Unstable
2023 · Series
It's a Wonderful Binge
2022 · Movie
I'm Totally Fine
2022 · Movie
Dead End: Paranormal Park
2022 · Series
Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
2021 · Movie
A Little Italian Vacation
2021 · Movie
Logan Lee & the Rise of the Purple Dawn
2020 · Movie
Dead to Me
2019 · Series
Heathers
2018 · Series
Life of the Party
2018 · Movie
Pee-wee's Big Holiday
2016 · Movie
Baskets
2016 · Series
One Big Happy
2015 · Series
Better Call Saul
2015 · Series
Bosch
2015 · Series
Go-Go Boy Interrupted
2014 · Series
Garfunkel and Oates
2014 · Series
Young & Hungry
2014 · Series
Crash & Bernstein
2012 · Series
Shake It Up: Made in Japan
2012 · Movie
The Campaign
2012 · Movie
2 Broke Girls
2011 · Series
Shameless
2011 · Series
Shake It Up
2010 · Series
Raising Hope
2010 · Series
Good Luck Charlie
2010 · Series
The Bucket List
2007 · Movie
Cory in the House
2007 · Series
The Enigma with a Stigma
2006 · Movie
Hannah Montana
2006 · Series
Ghost Whisperer
2005 · Series
Kitchen Confidential
2005 · Series
Stacked
2005 · Series
Grey's Anatomy
2005 · Series
Avatar: The Last Airbender
2005 · Series
American Dad!
2005 · Series
Arrested Development
2003 · Series
Nip/Tuck
2003 · Series
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series
2003 · Series
Wanda at Large
2003 · Series
Justice League
2001 · Series
Heavy Gear
2001 · Series
The Proud Family
2001 · Series
The Division
2001 · Series
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000 · Series
Static Shock
2000 · Series
Strip Mall
2000 · Series
Even Stevens
2000 · Series
Titus
2000 · Series
The Thirteenth Year
1999 · Movie
Futurama
1999 · Series
The King of Queens
1998 · Series
The Wild Thornberrys
1998 · Series
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
1998 · Series
Veronica's Closet
1997 · Series
King of the Hill
1997 · Series
Suddenly Susan
1996 · Series
Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys
1996 · Series
The Jamie Foxx Show
1996 · Series
Rudy Coby: Ridiculously Dangerous
1996 · Movie
Dunston Checks In
1996 · Movie
The American President
1995 · Movie
Caroline in the City
1995 · Series
Sawbones
1995 · Movie
Pulp Fiction
1994 · Movie
Ellen
1994 · Series
Viper
1994 · Series
Mad About You
1992 · Series
The Simpsons
1989 · Series
Snoops
1989 · Series
Doogie Howser, M.D.
1989 · Series
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
1988 · Series
Full House
1987 · Series
Columbo
1971 · Series
I Don't Care
Movie