Tamlyn Tomita

Known For: Acting
Born: January 27, 1966
Place of Birth: Okinawa, Japan

Tamlyn Tomita

Tamlyn Naomi Tomita is an American actress. She made her screen debut as Kumiko in The Karate Kid Part II and reprised the character for the streaming series Cobra Kai. She is also well known for her role as Waverly in The Joy Luck Club.

Filmography

Enough

2026 · Janet

Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord

2026 · Drea Lawson (voice)

Ultraman: Rising

2024 · Mina / Emiko Sato (voice)

Dead Boy Detectives

2024 · The Principal

Avatar: The Last Airbender

2024 · Yukari

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

2023 · Caroline Randa (voice)

BLUE EYE SAMURAI

2023 · Lady Itoh (voice)

Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp

2022 · Narrator (voice)

The Right Mom

2021 · Sallie Petersen

Etheria

2020

Asian Americans

2020 · Narrator (voice)

Reunited Apart

2020 · Self

I Will Make You Mine

2020 · Julia

Star Trek: Picard

2020 · Commodore Oh

Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood

2019 · Self

The Living Worst

2019 · Chita Montague

Cobra Kai

2018 · Kumiko

Counterpart

2017 · Emily's Doctor

The Good Doctor

2017 · Allegra Aoki

DuckTales

2017 · Inspector Tezuka (voice)

John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs

2017 · Self

Real Artists

2017 · Anne Palladon

Berlin Station

2016 · Sandra Abe

The Good Neighbor

2016 · Heather Cromwell

The Unbidden

2016 · Lauren Lee

Chicago Med

2015 · Celeste Frost

Daddy

2015 · Sharlene Hong

Zoo

2015 · Minako Oz

Teacher of the Year

2015 · Vivian Lew

The Real Miyagi

2015 · Self

The Man in the High Castle

2015 · Tamiko Watanabe

Operation Marriage

2014 · Lee

How to Get Away with Murder

2014 · Carol Morrow

Chasing Life

2014 · Molly, Mae

Resurrection

2014 · Dr. Toni Willis

Awesome Asian Bad Guys

2014 · Tamlyn/Pamlyn

Touch

2012 · Kazuko Osugi

Teen Wolf

2011 · Noshiko Yukimura

The Chicago Code

2011 · Prosecutor

Nomads

2010

Law & Order: LA

2010 · Miwako Nishizawa

The Mikado Project

2010 · Viola

Tekken

2010 · Jun Kazama

NCIS: Los Angeles

2009 · Homeland Security Agent Shana Rollins

Make It or Break It

2009

Glee

2009 · Julia Chang

Why Am I Doing This?

2009 · Donna

The Mentalist

2008 · Lauri Medina

True Blood

2008 · Ms. Suzuki

The Eye

2008 · Mrs. Cheung

Women's Murder Club

2007

Private Practice

2007 · Katie's Lawyer

Saving Grace

2007 · Tori Chen

Pandemic

2007 · Melissa Lo

Only the Brave

2006 · Mary Takata

Twenty Good Years

2006

Heroes

2006 · Ishi Nakamura

Eureka

2006 · Kim Anderson, Kim Yamazaki

Wendy... Uh... What's Her Name

2006 · Narrator (voice)

Commander in Chief

2005 · Randy

Criminal Minds

2005 · Dr. Linda Kimura

Bones

2005 · Dr. Alice Crawford

Gaijin 2: Love Me as I Am

2005 · Maria Yamashita

Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't

2005 · Helen Morriston

Stargate Atlantis

2004 · Shen Xiaoyi

The Day After Tomorrow

2004 · Janet Tokada

Threat Matrix

2003 · Special Agent Nicole Hill

Robot Stories

2003 · Marcia

CSI: Miami

2002 · Sarah Fordham

For the People

2002 · Dr. Chaney

Monk

2002 · Eileen Hill

The Shield

2002 · Wanda Higoshi

24

2001 · Jenny Dodge

The Agency

2001 · Elizabeth - Female Kidnapper

Crossing Jordan

2001 · Grace Yakura

Walking Shadow

2001 · Rikki Wu

The Michael Richards Show

2000 · Ming

Strong Medicine

2000 · Dr. Nash

Runaway Virus

2000 · Monique Chao

The Last Man on Planet Earth

1999 · Agent Kara Hastings

Life Tastes Good

1999 · Julie

Providence

1999 · Mary Cassidy

Living Out Loud

1998 · Bob's Wife

Seven Days

1998

Will & Grace

1998 · Naomi

Hundred Percent

1998 · Thaise

Stargate SG-1

1997 · Shen Xiaoyi

The Killing Jar

1997 · Diane Sanford

Touch

1997 · Prosecutor

The Burning Zone

1996 · Kimberly Shiroma

Nash Bridges

1996 · Amy Chin

The Sentinel

1996 · Suzanne Tomaki

Four Rooms

1995 · Wife

Requiem

1995 · Fong

JAG

1995 · Tracy Manetti

Picture Bride

1995 · Kana

Vanishing Son IV

1994 · Lanchi

Chicago Hope

1994 · Jennifer Watanabe, Tina - Sutton's Ex #3

One West Waikiki

1994

Vanishing Son II

1994 · Lanchi

Vanishing Son

1994 · Lanchi

Babylon 5: The Gathering

1993 · Lt. Cmdr. Laurel Takashima

The Joy Luck Club

1993 · Waverly Jong

Time Trax

1993

Highlander: The Series

1992 · Midori Koto

Raven

1992

Raven: Return of the Black Dragons

1992 · Kim Tanaka

Come See the Paradise

1990 · Lily Kawamura

Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes

1990 · Sally

Vietnam Texas

1990 · Lan

Quantum Leap

1989 · Tamlyn Matsuda

To Heal a Nation

1988 · Maya Ying Lin

Hiroshima Maiden

1988 · Miyeko

Tour of Duty

1987 · VC Peasant Woman

Hawaiian Dream

1987 · Karen Saito

The Karate Kid Part II

1986 · Kumiko

Murder, She Wrote

1984 · Det. Sharon Matsumoto

The Joy Luck Club 2

The Joy Luck Club 2

— · Waverly Jong

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