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Karen Maruyama

1958-05-29

The 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.

Karen Maruyama in

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Kung Fu Panda 4

7.09 average rating
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Pulp Fiction

8.5 average rating
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The Bucket List

7.2 average rating
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Self Reliance

5.997 average rating
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Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar

6 average rating
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It's a Wonderful Binge

5 average rating
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Dunston Checks In

5.4 average rating
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The Thirteenth Year

6.6 average rating
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The Campaign

5.825 average rating
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The American President

6.5 average rating
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Life of the Party

6.1 average rating
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Pee-wee's Big Holiday

6.104 average rating
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I'm Totally Fine

6.4 average rating
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Sawbones

5 average rating
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The Enigma with a Stigma

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A Little Italian Vacation

7 average rating
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Logan Lee & the Rise of the Purple Dawn

5.3 average rating
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RE-OPENING: A Lockdown Mockumentary

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