![Karen Maruyama](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/6XCu6ZFSkF8ppMO40Jx6HgDKJgj.jpg)
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 | 26.191 |
Birthday | 1958-05-29 |
Place of Birth | U.S.A |
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![Pulp Fiction](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/d5iIlFn5s0ImszYzBPb8JPIfbXD.jpg)
1994
![Pulp Fiction](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/d5iIlFn5s0ImszYzBPb8JPIfbXD.jpg)
Pulp Fiction
8.487/27431
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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![The Campaign](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/jMWjJ13sFTT07DwjNlqh8VY4sK6.jpg)
2012
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The Campaign
5.835/1701
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 Bucket List](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/idbNSe8zsYKQL97dJApfOrDSdya.jpg)
2007
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The Bucket List
7.182/3682
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 Enigma with a Stigma](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/y3AEg3vtW9ihT8mDvFEA7sI2o1A.jpg)
2006
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The Enigma with a Stigma
0/0
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![Life of the Party](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/749iUAWQWeutQuTd9excjmigecw.jpg)
2018
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Life of the Party
6.136/962
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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![Dunston Checks In](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/xR2cWC04kWNr7TBeXNOf4uOqn00.jpg)
1996
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Dunston Checks In
5.443/218
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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![The American President](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/yObOAYFIHXHkFPQ3jhgkN2ezaD.jpg)
1995
![The American President](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/yObOAYFIHXHkFPQ3jhgkN2ezaD.jpg)
The American President
6.5/688
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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2022
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I'm Totally Fine
6.438/16
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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![A Little Italian Vacation](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/58pdlAmNNy9UfUc0PZecdWMT1Ja.jpg)
2021
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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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![Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/2OTu5V21wqSiRl4RUy3VwqB7TXb.jpg)
2021
![Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/2OTu5V21wqSiRl4RUy3VwqB7TXb.jpg)
Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
6/224
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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![Pee-wee's Big Holiday](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/k5bZS2NsgVswuThBfyJYaV6T6zu.jpg)
2016
![Pee-wee's Big Holiday](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/k5bZS2NsgVswuThBfyJYaV6T6zu.jpg)
Pee-wee's Big Holiday
6.1/222
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![Logan Lee & the Rise of the Purple Dawn](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/b9HZ1CtoDKbSV7eMWjmpMdKRfRV.jpg)
2020
![Logan Lee & the Rise of the Purple Dawn](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/b9HZ1CtoDKbSV7eMWjmpMdKRfRV.jpg)
Logan Lee & the Rise of the Purple Dawn
5.3/3
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![It's a Wonderful Binge](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/hU9ouAPcg2LG7n85WUxjKwPq2y4.jpg)
2022
![It's a Wonderful Binge](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/hU9ouAPcg2LG7n85WUxjKwPq2y4.jpg)
It's a Wonderful Binge
5/98
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
![Sawbones](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/6tOEldf3imh1t09tMKrSpJzaqCO.jpg)
1995
![Sawbones](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/6tOEldf3imh1t09tMKrSpJzaqCO.jpg)
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
![Self Reliance](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/hlSWmmuuLeV1p3YcIkU59khEHLY.jpg)
2024
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Self Reliance
6.008/119
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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2024
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Kung Fu Panda 4
7.132/2341
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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![RE-OPENING: A Lockdown Mockumentary](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/sSpaYtnmP6kAYF28tmpHjIjSV49.jpg)
2023
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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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![The Thirteenth Year](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/fABYANPrfqti24Kb2vz5B2Vklml.jpg)
1999
![The Thirteenth Year](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/fABYANPrfqti24Kb2vz5B2Vklml.jpg)
The Thirteenth Year
6.591/215
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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