Tamlyn Tomita

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1966-01-27 (59 years old)

Place of Birth

Okinawa, Japan

Tamlyn Tomita

Biography

Tamlyn Naomi Tomita (born January 27, 1966) is a Japanese American actress. She's best known for her roles as Kumiko in The Karate Kid Part II and Waverly Jong in The Joy Lucky Club, as well as Commodore Oh on the Paramount+ series Star Trek: Picard, Allegra Aoki on ABC's The Good Doctor, Sandra Abe on the Epix series Berlin Station, Tamiko Watanabe on Amazon Prime's The Man in the High Castle, Noshiko Yukimura on the MTV series Teen Wolf, Jun Kazama in Tekken, Janet Tokada in The Day After Tomorrow, and Kimberly Shiroma on UPN's The Burning Zone.

Acting

1995

Four Rooms

as Wife

2004

The Day After Tomorrow

as Janet Tokada

2006

2003

Robot Stories

as Marcia

1993

Babylon 5: The Gathering

as Lt. Cmdr. Laurel Takashima

2006

Only The Brave

as Mary Takata

2021

The Right Mom

as Sallie Petersen

2008

The Eye

as Mrs. Cheung

2010

Tekken

as Jun Kazama

1993

The Joy Luck Club

as Waverly Jong

1990

Come See the Paradise

as Lily Kawamura

1990

1994

2010

1988

To Heal a Nation

as Maya Ying Lin

2001

Walking Shadow

as Rikki Wu

2024

Ultraman: Rising

as Mina / Emiko Sato (voice)

1999

The Last Man on Planet Earth

as Agent Kara Hastings

2014

Awesome Asian Bad Guys

as Tamlyn/Pamlyn

2015

Teacher of the Year

as Vivian Lew

1997

The Killing Jar

as Diane Sanford

1995

1988

2000

Runaway Virus

as Monique Chao

1994

2016

The Good Neighbor

as Heather Cromwell

2015

Daddy

as Sharlene Hong

2005

Gaijin 2: Love Me as I Am

as Maria Yamashita

2016

The Unbidden

as Lauren Lee

2017

Real Artists

as Anne Palladon

1987

Hawaiian Dream

as Karen Saito

1998

1997

Touch

as Prosecutor

2019

The Living Worst

as Chita Montague

2015

1998

Living Out Loud

as Bob's Wife

2010

1995

Requiem

as Fong

-

The Joy Luck Club 2

as Waverly Jong

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