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 Tomo...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Ultraman: Rising
2024
as Mina / Emiko Sato (voice)
A star athlete reluctantly returns home to take over his father's duties as Ultraman, shielding Tokyo from giant monsters as he becomes a legendary he...

Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp
2022
as Narrator (voice)
The story of the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans and the loss of civil rights.

The Right Mom
2021
as Sallie Petersen
While writing an article about an abused boy, a woman fights for protect him after she uncovers shocking details.

I Will Make You Mine
2020
as Julia
Three women wrestle with life's difficulties while confronting their past relationships with the same man.

Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
2019
as Self
A history of anti-Asian racism and yellowface in Hollywood after the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.

The Living Worst
2019
as Chita Montague
Weezy (Louise) is a cerebral thirty-something soon to be married and unable to feel anything more than just fine about that. Weezy's girlfriends throw...

John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
2017
as Self
An examination of the Oscar-winning director who brought to life some of cinema's most beloved motion pictures.

Real Artists
2017
as Anne Palladon
In the near future, a young animator is offered what should be her dream job, but, when she discovers the truth of the modern 'creative' process, she ...

The Good Neighbor
2016
as Heather Cromwell
Two high school filmmakers decide to create the illusion of a haunting on an unsuspecting neighbor.

The Unbidden
2016
as Lauren Lee
The Unbidden is a thriller about four women confronted by a mysterious young man who knows a dark secret from their past.

Daddy
2015
as Sharlene Hong
Colin McCormack thinks he has it all - a great job, a steady stream of hot younger guys, and a best friend whose devotion he takes for granted. But wh...

Teacher of the Year
2015
as Vivian Lew
Surrounded by the eccentric faculty of Truman High School, Mitch Carter wins the California Teacher of the Year award and immediately receives a tempt...

The Real Miyagi
2015
as Self
The life of Fumio Demura, the greatest karate master of a generation.

Operation Marriage
2014
as Lee
Two young siblings try to get their lesbian moms married before Proposition 8 passes in California.

Awesome Asian Bad Guys
2014
as Tamlyn/Pamlyn
An action/comedy about two offbeat filmmakers reuniting the Asian bad guys from action films from the 80s and 90s, to carry off one impossible mission...

Nomads
2010
Susan is a filmmaker working on a documentary about subway suicides at Mexico City. Roberto is an undocumented Mexican immigrant who cleans windows i...

The Mikado Project
2010
as Viola
A struggling Asian American Theater company decides to put on a production of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado.

Tekken
2010
as Jun Kazama
In the year of 2039, after World Wars destroy much of the civilization as we know it, territories are no longer run by governments, but by corporation...

Why Am I Doing This?
2009
as Donna
Lester is trying be the next Louis CK… except everyone wants him to be Chris Rock. Tony is trying to be the next Tom Hanks… except everyone wants him...

The Eye
2008
as Mrs. Cheung
Violinist Sydney Wells was accidentally blinded by her sister Helen when she was five years old. She submits to a cornea transplantation, and while re...

Only The Brave
2006
as Mary Takata
A searing portrait of war and prejudice, ‘Only the Brave’ takes you on a haunting journey into the hearts and minds of the forgotten heroes of WWII – ...

Wendy... Uh... What's Her Name
2006
as Narrator (voice)
On February 4, 1974, the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst. A month later, SLA members and Hearst robbed a bank ...

Gaijin: Ama-me Como Sou
2005
as Maria Yamashita
In 1908, Titoe leaves her home country of Japan to try her luck in Brazil. Her intention is just to get rich and return in five years, but life has ot...

Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't
2005
as Helen Morriston
The Declaration Of Independence is stolen while on display in a Los Angeles bank. The NSA, with the assistance of a puzzle solver (Code Name: Jane Doe...

The Day After Tomorrow
2004
as Janet Tokada
After paleoclimatologist Jack Hall is largely ignored by UN officials when presenting his environmental concerns about the beginning of a new Ice Age,...

Robot Stories
2003
as Marcia
Four stories including: "My Robot Baby," in which a couple must care for a robot baby before adopting a human child; "The Robot Fixer," in which a mot...

Walking Shadow
2001
as Rikki Wu
Spenser attends a play at his girlfriend's insistence to meet a director who is allegedly being stalked. During the performance, the lead actor in a h...

Runaway Virus
2000
as Monique Chao
Two virus experts track down contagious people across the world. But it's only a matter of time before L.A. is exposed to the virus.

The Last Man on Planet Earth
1999
as Agent Kara Hastings
During a war with Afghanistan, a weapon called the "Y-bomb" was used, which resulted in the deaths of 97% of the world's men. Feeling that they were b...

Living Out Loud
1998
as Bob's Wife
Judith Moore is suddenly single after discovering her husband of fifteen years, a successful doctor, has been having an affair with a younger woman. J...

Hundred Percent
1998
as Thaise
Three Asian men live in L.A. Isaac is a romantic coffee shop worker, who waits for the woman of his dreams, and loses his balance after meeting a femm...

The Killing Jar
1997
as Diane Sanford
Michael Sanford and his wife move to his old town so he can take over the family business. However, gruesome murders of children start to happen. Mean...

Touch
1997
as Prosecutor
At the discovery of his ability to work miracles, Juvenal becomes a media sensation, but now he's prone to those who want to exploit him.

Four Rooms
1995
as Wife
It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments. It seems t...

Requiem
1995
as Fong
A waitress-dancer remembers her loving brother and their bittersweet childhood in Hong Kong.

Picture Bride
1995
as Kana
Riyo, an orphaned 17-year old, sails from Yokohama to Hawaii in 1918 to marry Matsuji, a man she has never met. Hoping to escape a troubled past and s...

Vanishing Son IV
1994
as Lanchi
After the death of his brother Wago, Jian-Wa Chang now roams America's countryside while looking for his place in the world. He is hit by a van of two...

Vanishing Son II
1994
as Lanchi
The continuing saga of the Chang brothers: Jian-Wa and Wago. Picking up where it left off, Jian-Wa has left L.A. after a gang fight that involved Wago...

Babylon 5: The Gathering
1993
as Lt. Cmdr. Laurel Takashima
The first installment of this Emmy award-winning series. A movie based at Babylon 5: a new space station built by Humans. The Vorlon ambassador, Kosh,...

The Joy Luck Club
1993
as Waverly Jong
Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.

Raven: Return of the Black Dragons
1992
as Kim Tanaka
Raven is a ninja, a former member of the Black Dragons clan and also a former Special Forces agent, living in Hawaii, helping those in trouble and sea...

Come See the Paradise
1990
as Lily Kawamura
In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a ...

Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
1990
as Sally
The movie follows the perspective of several characters (such as Japanese victims, soldiers, American prisoners of war and others) and how they lived ...

Vietnam Texas
1990
as Lan
A priest (Robert Ginty) learns that he fathered a child during his tour of duty in Vietnam and that the mother and child has relocated to Houston, Tex...

To Heal a Nation
1988
as Maya Ying Lin
The true story of Jan Scruggs, an embittered Vietnam veteran who returns from the war a broken man. However, with the help of his loving wife Becky, h...
Hiroshima Maiden
1988
as Miyeko
"You have to think about whether they're really your friends," Johnny's dad says when Johnny talks to him about the grief his pals have been giving hi...

Hawaiian Dream
1987
as Karen Saito
Tatsuhiko and Shofumi are hoodlums living in downtown Hawaii, having flown out of Japan and entered the country illegally for a reason. The two make a...

The Karate Kid Part II
1986
as Kumiko
Summoned by his dying father, Miyagi returns to his homeland of Okinawa, with Daniel, after a 40-year exile. There he must confront Yukie, the love of...
The Joy Luck Club 2
N/A
as Waverly Jong
In the sequel, the mothers become grandmothers and the daughters become mothers in their own right, introducing a new generation exploring their own r...