Birthday:
Jan 27, 1966
Place of Birth: Okinawa, Japan
Place of Birth: Okinawa, Japan
Tamlyn Tomita
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.
Filmography
| Movie | Cast | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Four Rooms | Wife | 1995 |
| The Day After Tomorrow | Janet Tokada | 2004 |
| Wendy... Uh... What's Her Name | Narrator (voice) | 2006 |
| Robot Stories | Marcia | 2003 |
| Babylon 5: The Gathering | Lt. Cmdr. Laurel Takashima | 1993 |
| Only The Brave | Mary Takata | 2006 |
| The Right Mom | Sallie Petersen | 2021 |
| The Eye | Mrs. Cheung | 2008 |
| Tekken | Jun Kazama | 2010 |
| Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't | Helen Morriston | 2005 |
| The Joy Luck Club | Waverly Jong | 1993 |
| Come See the Paradise | Lily Kawamura | 1990 |
| Vietnam Texas | Lan | 1990 |
| Vanishing Son IV | Lanchi | 1994 |
| Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood | Self | 2019 |
| Nomads | 2010 | |
| To Heal a Nation | Maya Ying Lin | 1988 |
| Walking Shadow | Rikki Wu | 2001 |
| Ultraman: Rising | Mina / Emiko Sato (voice) | 2024 |
| The Last Man on Planet Earth | Agent Kara Hastings | 1999 |
| Awesome Asian Bad Guys | Tamlyn/Pamlyn | 2014 |
| Teacher of the Year | Vivian Lew | 2015 |
| The Killing Jar | Diane Sanford | 1997 |
| Operation Marriage | Lee | 2014 |
| Picture Bride | Kana | 1995 |
| Hiroshima Maiden | Miyeko | 1988 |
| Runaway Virus | Monique Chao | 2000 |
| Why Am I Doing This? | Donna | 2009 |
| Vanishing Son II | Lanchi | 1994 |
| The Good Neighbor | Heather Cromwell | 2016 |
| Daddy | Sharlene Hong | 2015 |
| Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp | Narrator (voice) | 2022 |
| Gaijin: Ama-me Como Sou | Maria Yamashita | 2005 |
| The Unbidden | Lauren Lee | 2016 |
| The Karate Kid Part II | Kumiko | 1986 |
| Real Artists | Anne Palladon | 2017 |
| Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes | Sally | 1990 |
| Hawaiian Dream | Karen Saito | 1987 |
| Hundred Percent | Thaise | 1998 |
| Touch | Prosecutor | 1997 |
| The Living Worst | Chita Montague | 2019 |
| The Real Miyagi | Self | 2015 |
| I Will Make You Mine | Julia | 2020 |
| Living Out Loud | Bob's Wife | 1998 |
| The Mikado Project | Viola | 2010 |
| Raven: Return of the Black Dragons | Kim Tanaka | 1997 |
| Requiem | Fong | 1995 |
| The Joy Luck Club 2 | Waverly Jong | 1970 |
| John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs | Self | 2017 | Series | Cast | Year |
| Threat Matrix | Special Agent Nicole Hill | 2003 |
| CSI: Miami | 2002 | |
| Providence | Mary Cassidy | 1999 |
| Monk | Eileen Hill | 2002 |
| Stargate Atlantis | Shen Xiaoyi | 2004 |
| 24 | Jenny Dodge | 2001 |
| Women's Murder Club | 2007 | |
| Quantum Leap | Tamlyn Matsuda | 1989 |
| Criminal Minds | Dr. Linda Kimura | 2005 |
| Private Practice | Katie's Lawyer | 2007 |
| Time Trax | 1993 | |
| Stargate SG-1 | Shen Xiaoyi | 1997 |
| The Mentalist | Lauri Medina | 2008 |
| Will & Grace | Naomi | 1998 |
| Seven Days | 1998 | |
| Chicago Hope | 1994 | |
| Tour of Duty | VC Peasant Woman | 1987 |
| Saving Grace | 2007 | |
| Raven | 1992 | |
| The Burning Zone | Kimberly Shiroma | 1996 |
| The Michael Richards Show | Ming | 2000 |
| Zoo | Minako Oz | 2015 |
| One West Waikiki | 1994 | |
| Bones | Dr. Alice Crawford | 2005 |
| NCIS: Los Angeles | Homeland Security Agent Shana Rollins | 2009 |
| How to Get Away with Murder | Carol Morrow | 2014 |
| Make It or Break It | 2009 | |
| True Blood | Ms. Suzuki | 2008 |
| Chasing Life | Molly | 2014 |
| Heroes | Ishi Nakamura | 2006 |
| Eureka | Kim Anderson | 2006 |
| Chasing Life | Mae | 2014 |
| Teen Wolf | Noshiko Yukimura | 2011 |
| Eureka | Kim Yamazaki | 2006 |
| Berlin Station | Sandra Abe | 2016 |
| Babylon 5 | Lt. Cmdr. Laurel Takashima | 1994 |
| Law & Order: LA | Miwako Nishizawa | 2010 |
| Chicago Hope | Tina - Sutton's Ex #3 | 1994 |
| BLUE EYE SAMURAI | Lady Itoh (voice) | 2023 |
| Pandemic | Melissa Lo | 2007 |
| The Chicago Code | Prosecutor | 2011 |
| Monarch: Legacy of Monsters | Caroline Randa (voice) | 2023 |
| Monarch: Legacy of Monsters | Caroline Randa | 2023 |
| JAG | Tracy Manetti | 1995 |
| The Shield | Wanda Higoshi | 2002 |
| The Good Doctor | Allegra Aoki | 2017 |
| Avatar the Last Airbender | Yukari | 2024 |
| Highlander: The Series | Midori Koto | 1992 |
| Glee | Julia Chang | 2009 |
| Commander in Chief | Randy | 2005 |
| Dead Boy Detectives | The Principal | 2024 |
| The Man in the High Castle | Tamiko Watanabe | 2015 |
| Star Trek: Picard | Commodore Oh | 2020 |
| Resurrection | Dr. Toni Willis | 2014 |
| Strong Medicine | Dr. Nash | 2000 |
| Touch | Kazuko Osugi | 2012 |
| DuckTales | Inspector Tezuka (voice) | 2017 |
| The Sentinel | Suzanne Tomaki | 1996 |
| Reunited Apart | Self | 2020 |
| Asian Americans | Narrator (voice) | 2020 |
| Nash Bridges | Amy Chin | 1996 |
| Crossing Jordan | Grace Yakura | 2001 |
| Murder, She Wrote | Det. Sharon Matsumoto | 1984 |
| Cobra Kai | Kumiko | 2018 |
