
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.
20
Films
63
TV Shows
Known For
83 Credits
Grey's Anatomy
as Lisa Saito
2005

The Simpsons
as Japanese Stewardess (voice)
1989

The Simpsons
as Dancing Woman #1 (voice)
1989

Shameless
as Dr. Ma
2011

American Dad!
as Kichiro (voice)
2005

American Dad!
as Woman (voice)
2005

Better Call Saul
as Judge Metcalf
2015

Columbo
as Maid
1971

Futurama
as Amazonian (voice)
1999

Curb Your Enthusiasm
as Female Parking Attendant
2000

2 Broke Girls
as Su-Min
2011

King of the Hill
as Buddhist (voice)
1997