Karen Fukuhara

Karen Fukuhara is a Japanese-American actress and voice actor. She is known for her role as Katana in Suicide Squad: True Villains and as Kimiko Miyashiro in the Amazon Prime series The Boys; He is also known for his voice-overs in animated series.

Life and education

She was born on February 10, 1992, in Los Angeles, the daughter of Japanese parents. The first language he learned at home was Japanese; He attended a Japanese language school on weekends for eleven years. He started karate in middle school and reached a brown belt in Kyokushin karate. He entered the world of entertainment during his middle school years as the host of Disney Channel's short film news program Movie Surfers.

He studied sociology at UCLA, minored in theater, and graduated in 2014. While he was a student, he also worked on television programs in Japan.

Acting career

She made her film debut in 2016, playing the sword-wielding superhero Katana in Suicide Squad: Real Villains. In The Boys, which began in 2019, she played Kimiko Miyashiro (“The Female”), a non-speaking, powerful and traumatized superhuman; The series ended with its fifth season, released in 2026. In 2024, she received the best actress award in the broadcast series category at the Astra Awards for this role.

In the field of voice acting, she voiced Glimmer in Netflix's She-Ra and the Princesses of Power series and the protagonist Kipo Oak in Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, released in 2020. In the cinema, he also took part in productions such as the horror movie Stray (2019) and the action movie Bullet Train (2022).

Fukuhara continues her career as an actor who combines her martial arts background with action roles and her bilingual background with voiceover work.