Tamlyn Tomita
Department: Acting
Biography
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.
Known For
Four Rooms
1995
The Day After Tomorrow
2004
Wendy... Uh... What's Her Name
2006
Robot Stories
2003
Babylon 5: The Gathering
1993
Only The Brave
2006
The Right Mom
2021
The Eye
2008
Tekken
2010
Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't
2005
The Joy Luck Club
1993
Come See the Paradise
1990
Vietnam Texas
1990
Vanishing Son IV
1994
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
2019
Nomads
2010
To Heal a Nation
1988
Walking Shadow
2001
Ultraman: Rising
2024
The Last Man on Planet Earth
1999
Awesome Asian Bad Guys
2014
Teacher of the Year
2015
The Killing Jar
1997
Operation Marriage
2014
Picture Bride
1995
Hiroshima Maiden
1988
Runaway Virus
2000
Why Am I Doing This?
2009
Vanishing Son II
1994
The Good Neighbor
2016
Daddy
2015
Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp
2022
Gaijin 2: Love Me as I Am
2005
The Unbidden
2016
The Karate Kid Part II
1986
Real Artists
2017
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
1990
Hawaiian Dream
1987
Hundred Percent
1998
Touch
1997
The Living Worst
2019
The Real Miyagi
2015
I Will Make You Mine
2020
Living Out Loud
1998
The Mikado Project
2010
Raven: Return of the Black Dragons
1992
Requiem
1995
The Joy Luck Club 2
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John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
2017
Life Tastes Good
1999
Enough
2026
Threat Matrix
2003
CSI: Miami
2002
Providence
1999
Monk
2002
Stargate Atlantis
2004
24
2001
Women's Murder Club
2007
Quantum Leap
1989
Criminal Minds
2005
Private Practice
2007
Time Trax
1993
Stargate SG-1
1997
The Mentalist
2008
Will & Grace
1998
Seven Days
1998
Chicago Hope
1994
Tour of Duty
1987
Saving Grace
2007
Raven
1992
The Burning Zone
1996
The Michael Richards Show
2000
Zoo
2015
One West Waikiki
1994
Bones
2005
NCIS: Los Angeles
2009
How to Get Away with Murder
2014
Make It or Break It
2009
True Blood
2008
Chasing Life
2014
Heroes
2006
Eureka
2006
Chasing Life
2014
Teen Wolf
2011
Eureka
2006
Berlin Station
2016
Law & Order: LA
2010
Chicago Hope
1994
BLUE EYE SAMURAI
2023
Pandemic
2007
The Chicago Code
2011
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
2023
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
2023
JAG
1995
The Shield
2002
The Good Doctor
2017
Avatar the Last Airbender
2024
Highlander: The Series
1992
Glee
2009
Commander in Chief
2005
Dead Boy Detectives
2024
The Man in the High Castle
2015
Star Trek: Picard
2020
Resurrection
2014
Strong Medicine
2000
Touch
2012
DuckTales
2017
The Sentinel
1996
Reunited Apart
2020
Asian Americans
2020
Nash Bridges
1996
Crossing Jordan
2001
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Cobra Kai
2018
Vanishing Son
1994
Etheria
2020
Counterpart
2017
The Agency
2001
Twenty Good Years
2006
Chicago Med
2015
For the People
2002