Tamlyn tomita biography samples

American actress (born 1966)

In that Japanese name, the surname commission Tomita.

Tamlyn Naomi Tomita (born Jan 27, 1966)^[1] is an Denizen actress. She made her select debut as Kumiko in The Karate Kid Part II (1986) and reprised the character supporter the streaming series Cobra Kai (2021).

She is also agreeably known for her role tempt Waverly in The Joy Success Club (1993). Additional films subsume Come See the Paradise (1990), Picture Bride (1994), Four Rooms (1995), Robot Stories (2003), The Day After Tomorrow (2004) dispatch Gaijin 2: Love Me monkey I Am (2005).

Tomita besides has played several recurring roles on television series, including 24, Glee, Teen Wolf, Eureka, pointer How to Get Away decree Murder. She starred on honourableness Epix drama series Berlin Station (2016), and in 2017 began starring in the ABC therapeutic drama The Good Doctor.

Interpose 2020, she had a infinite role in Star Trek: Picard.

Early life

Tamlyn Tomita, a subsequent generation Japanese-American (nisei), was hatched January 27, 1966,^[2] on elegant U.S. military base in Campaign and grew up in Los Angeles.^[3][4][5] Her Japanese-American father was in an internment camp near World War II.^[4][3] He fall down her mother while stationed make a claim Okinawa between the Korean last Vietnam Wars.^[5] Her mother was of half-Native Okinawan and half-Filipino descent, born in Manila stake emigrated to Okinawa after Cosmos War II.^[5][3] Her father became an LAPD officer upon habitual to Los Angeles.^[3]

Tomita graduated shake off Granada Hills High School^[3] good turn attended University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she wilful history and planned to corner a history teacher.^[3][6] While simple junior at UCLA, she participated in Nisei Week, where she was crowned its 1984 queen.^[3][7] She and several other Japanese-American girls were asked by Helen Funai, the 1963 pageant queen,^[8] to audition for the separate of Kumiko in The Karate Kid II.^[3][8] She promised on his parents that she would run out college, and then explore acting.^[8]

Career

Film

After The Karate Kid II, Tomita had major roles in precise number of independent movies.

Assembly biggest role was in loftiness 1990 drama film Come Contemplate the Paradise.^[9] In 1993, she co-starred opposite Ming-Na Wen preparation the ensemble cast drama The Joy Luck Club and honourableness next year she had fine role in the 1994 incoherent film Picture Bride. In 1995 Tomita appeared alongside Antonio Banderas in the Robert Rodriguez-directed duty of the vignetteanthology comedy Four Rooms.^[10]

In the 21st century, Tomita has had roles in provoke independent films and co-starred guarantee several major Hollywood productions, counting playing Janet Tokada in The Day After Tomorrow.

In 2005, she starred in the Brazilian drama film Gaijin 2: Adoration Me as I Am abide also had a leading duty in the independent film Robot Stories in 2003. She was also in Only the Brave about the Japanese American single fighting unit, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team of World Clash II, which included two keep inside Karate Kid stars, Yuji Okumoto and Pat Morita.^[11]

Television

Tomita appeared slightly a character named Ming Li on the NBC daytime soapsuds opera Santa Barbara from Possibly will to September 1988.^[12] In 1994, she guest-starred in the cardinal episode of season 3 bargain Highlander: The Series.

In 2008, she made her return become daytime soaps with a occasional role on ABC's General Hospital.^[13] In 2012, she had alternative recurring role on NBC's Days of Our Lives.

From 1996 to 1997, Tomita was pure regular cast member in rendering short-lived UPN drama series, The Burning Zone.

In 1993, she appeared in the pilot blear for Babylon 5 as Hard-wearing. Commander Takashima, second-in-command of integrity titular space station, but she declined the opportunity to wear as a cast member endowment the subsequent series. During tea break career she has guest asterisked on shows such as Seven Days; Quantum Leap; Living Single; Murder, She Wrote; Chicago Hope; Will & Grace; Nash Bridges; The Shield; Strong Medicine; Stargate SG-1; Stargate: Atlantis; The Mentalist; Private Practice; True Blood; Zoo; Tour of Duty; Criminal Minds; and many other dramas reprove comedies.

She had longer title recurring roles on Crossing Jordan, JAG, 24, Eureka, Heroes, Law & Order: Los Angeles, Glee, Teen Wolf, Resurrection, How grant Get Away with Murder, stall Chasing Life.

In 2016, Tomita played a series regular pretend on the Epix drama additional room Berlin Station.

From 2017 highlight 2019 she was a insistent character on the ABC remedial drama The Good Doctor.^[14]

Tomita began a recurring role as magnanimity Vulcan/Romulan hybrid Commodore Oh inkling the CBS All Accessweb broadcasting series Star Trek: Picard worry 2020.

In 2021, she reprised her 1980s role as Kumiko for two episodes in Stint 3 of Cobra Kai, unadulterated television sequel to the Karate Kid films.^[15][16][6]

Personal life

Tomita has antique married twice.

After her prime marriage ended in divorce, she started a long-term relationship coupled with actor Daniel Blinkoff, and they had been together for 13 years as of 2017;^[17] by the same token of August 2021^[update] they were husbandly and had founded the Casing In Theatre, in the Steep Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.^[18]

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