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Karen Fukuhara

Highest Rated: 96% The Boy and the Heron (2023)

Lowest Rated: 26% Suicide Squad (2016)

Birthday: Feb 10, 1992

Birthplace: Los Angeles County, California, USA

Making her big screen debut with a major bang, Karen Fukuhara took audiences by storm with her debut role as Katana in "Suicide Squad" (2016). Born in Los Angeles in 1992 to Japanese immigrants, Fukuhara spent her youth becoming an accomplished martial artist. She also discovered a love of performing, and by the time she enrolled at UCLA, Fukuhara was interested in singing, joining the school's a cappella group, the Medleys. Fukuhara also found time during her college career to begin appearing on the Disney Channel in Japan, hosting a variety of shows aimed at younger viewers. When it came to landing her first onscreen role in her native United States, Fukuhara dove into the role of Katana with intensity. The action heavy movie called for numerous major stunts, but aside from a single dive roll, Fukuhara performed all of them herself. Fukuhara expressed happiness about honoring her heritage with the role, saying in a 2016 interview with Playboy, "As a first-generation Japanese American, I've always wanted to play a samurai warrior like my Suicide Squad character, Katana. Samurai are almost always male, so growing up in America I had a hard time figuring out role models."

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Highest rated movies

96% 88% The Boy and the Heron Watchlist 56% 21% Stray Watchlist 53% 76% Bullet Train Watchlist 26% 58% Suicide Squad Watchlist 23% Bobbleheads: The Movie Watchlist
The Boy and the Heron: Official Trailer
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
96% 88% The Boy and the Heron Lady Himi (Voice) $44.2M 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Boy and the Heron: Official Trailer Unknown (Character) - 2023
53% 76% Bullet Train Unknown (Character) $103.1M 2022
No Score Yet 23% Bobbleheads: The Movie Ikioi (Character) - 2020
56% 21% Stray Nori (Character) - 2019
26% 58% Suicide Squad Katana (Character) - 2016

TV

Credit
73% 33% Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft Sam Nishimura (Voice) 2024
93% 76% The Boys The Female (Character) 2019-2020 2022 2024
98% 64% Star Wars: Visions F (Voice) 2021
100% 87% Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts Kipo (Voice) 2020
96% 84% She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Glimmer (Voice) 2018-2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Conan Guest 2016