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

• 2026Enough — Janet
• Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord — Drea Lawson (voice)
• Avatar: The Last Airbender — Yukari
• Dead Boy Detectives — The Principal
• 2024Ultraman: Rising — Mina / Emiko Sato (voice)
• BLUE EYE SAMURAI — Lady Itoh (voice)
• Monarch: Legacy of Monsters — Caroline Randa (voice)
• 2022Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp — Narrator (voice)
• 2021The Right Mom — Sallie Petersen
• Asian Americans — Narrator (voice)
• Etheria
• 2020I Will Make You Mine — Julia
• Star Trek: Picard — Commodore Oh
• 2019The Living Worst — Chita Montague
• Cobra Kai — Kumiko
• Counterpart — Emily's Doctor
• DuckTales — Inspector Tezuka (voice)
• 2017Real Artists — Anne Palladon
• The Good Doctor — Allegra Aoki
• Berlin Station — Sandra Abe
• 2016The Good Neighbor — Heather Cromwell
• 2016The Unbidden — Lauren Lee
• Chicago Med — Celeste Frost
• 2015Daddy — Sharlene Hong
• 2015Teacher of the Year — Vivian Lew
• The Man in the High Castle — Tamiko Watanabe
• Zoo — Minako Oz
• 2014Awesome Asian Bad Guys — Tamlyn/Pamlyn
• Chasing Life — Molly, Mae
• How to Get Away with Murder — Carol Morrow
• 2014Operation Marriage — Lee
• Resurrection — Dr. Toni Willis
• Hollywood Heights — Sarah Medeiros
• Touch — Kazuko Osugi
• Teen Wolf — Noshiko Yukimura
• The Chicago Code — Prosecutor
• Law & Order: LA — Miwako Nishizawa
• 2010Nomads
• 2010Tekken — Jun Kazama
• 2010The Mikado Project — Viola
• Glee — Julia Chang
• Make It or Break It
• NCIS: Los Angeles — Homeland Security Agent Shana Rollins
• 2009Why Am I Doing This? — Donna
• 2008The Eye — Mrs. Cheung
• The Mentalist — Lauri Medina
• True Blood — Ms. Suzuki
• Pandemic — Melissa Lo
• Private Practice — Katie's Lawyer
• Saving Grace — Tori Chen
• Women's Murder Club
• Eureka — Kim Anderson, Kim Yamazaki
• Heroes — Ishi Nakamura
• 2006Only the Brave — Mary Takata
• Twenty Good Years
• 2006Wendy... Uh... What's Her Name — Narrator (voice)
• Bones — Dr. Alice Crawford
• Commander in Chief — Randy
• Criminal Minds — Dr. Linda Kimura
• 2005Gaijin 2: Love Me as I Am — Maria Yamashita
• 2005Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't — Helen Morriston
• Stargate Atlantis — Shen Xiaoyi
• 2004The Day After Tomorrow — Janet Tokada
• 2003Robot Stories — Marcia
• Threat Matrix — Special Agent Nicole Hill
• CSI: Miami — Sarah Fordham
• For the People — Dr. Chaney
• Monk — Eileen Hill
• The Shield — Wanda Higoshi
• 24 — Jenny Dodge
• Crossing Jordan — Grace Yakura
• The Agency — Elizabeth - Female Kidnapper
• 2001Walking Shadow — Rikki Wu
• 2000Runaway Virus — Monique Chao
• Strong Medicine — Dr. Nash
• The Michael Richards Show — Ming
• 1999Life Tastes Good — Julie
• Providence — Mary Cassidy
• 1999The Last Man on Planet Earth — Agent Kara Hastings
• 1998Hundred Percent — Thaise
• 1998Living Out Loud — Bob's Wife
• Seven Days
• Will & Grace — Naomi
• Stargate SG-1 — Shen Xiaoyi
• 1997The Killing Jar — Diane Sanford
• 1997Touch — Prosecutor
• Nash Bridges — Amy Chin
• The Burning Zone — Kimberly Shiroma
• The Sentinel — Suzanne Tomaki
• 1995Four Rooms — Wife
• JAG — Tracy Manetti
• 1995Picture Bride — Kana
• 1995Requiem — Fong
• Chicago Hope — Jennifer Watanabe, Tina - Sutton's Ex #3
• One West Waikiki
• Vanishing Son — Lanchi
• 1994Vanishing Son II — Lanchi
• 1994Vanishing Son IV — Lanchi
• 1993Babylon 5: The Gathering — Lt. Cmdr. Laurel Takashima
• 1993The Joy Luck Club — Waverly Jong
• Time Trax
• Highlander: The Series — Midori Koto
• Raven
• 1992Raven: Return of the Black Dragons — Kim Tanaka
• 1990Come See the Paradise — Lily Kawamura
• 1990Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes — Sally
• 1990Vietnam Texas — Lan
• Quantum Leap — Tamlyn Matsuda
• 1988Hiroshima Maiden — Miyeko
• 1988To Heal a Nation — Maya Ying Lin
• 1987Hawaiian Dream — Karen Saito
• Tour of Duty — VC Peasant Woman
• 1986The Karate Kid Part II — Kumiko
• Murder, She Wrote — Det. Sharon Matsumoto
• The Joy Luck Club 2 — Waverly Jong

Appearances as themselves (4)

• Reunited Apart — Self
• 2019Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood — Self
• 2017John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs — Self
• 2015The Real Miyagi — Self