Karen Maruyama

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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.

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2026
The Musical
Movie Mrs. Belkin
2026
The Oracle
Movie Nina Smolinsky
2025
Miss Valentine
Movie Shelly Foster
2024
Ultraman: Rising
Movie Oba-chan (voice)
2024
Kung Fu Panda 4
Movie Wolf Crime Boss / Bunny Waiter / Citizen #1 / Questioned Sheep (voice)
2024
Self Reliance
Movie Lindsey
2023
RE-OPENING: A Lockdown Mockumentary
Movie Renee Foreman
2023
Unstable
TV show Meredith
2022
It's a Wonderful Binge
Movie Grandma
2022
I'm Totally Fine
Movie Sandra
2022
Dead End: Paranormal Park
TV show Barborah (voice)
2021
Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
Movie Caricature Artist
2021
A Little Italian Vacation
Movie Ms. Polotzi
2020
Logan Lee & the Rise of the Purple Dawn
Movie Auntie Bobbie
2019
Dead to Me
TV show Marcy
2018
Heathers
TV show Mrs. Finn