15 Facts About Tamlyn Tomita

Tamlyn Tomita made her screen debut as Kumiko in The Karate Kid Part II and reprised the character for the streaming series Cobra Kai.

Tamlyn Tomita is well known for her role as Waverly in The Joy Luck Club.

Tamlyn Tomita starred on the Epix drama series Berlin Station, and in 2017 began starring in the ABC medical drama The Good Doctor.

Tamlyn Tomita, a first generation Japanese-American, was born January 27,1966, on a military base in Okinawa and grew up in Los Angeles.

Tamlyn Tomita met her mother while stationed in Okinawa between the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

Tamlyn Tomita's mother was of half-Okinawan Japanese and half-Filipino descent, born in Manila and emigrated to Okinawa after World War II.

Tamlyn Tomita's father became an LAPD officer upon returning to Los Angeles.

Tamlyn Tomita graduated from Granada Hills High School and attended University of California, Los Angeles, where she studied history and planned to become a history teacher.

Tamlyn Tomita promised her parents that she would finish college, and then explore acting.

In 1995 Tamlyn Tomita appeared alongside Antonio Banderas in the Robert Rodriguez-directed segment of the vignette anthology comedy Four Rooms.

Tamlyn Tomita was in Only the Brave about the Japanese American segregated fighting unit, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team of World War II, which included two other Karate Kid stars, Yuji Okumoto and Pat Morita.

Tamlyn Tomita appeared as a character named Ming Li on the NBC daytime soap opera Santa Barbara from May to September 1988.

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

In 2016, Tamlyn Tomita played a series regular role on the Epix drama series Berlin Station.

Tamlyn Tomita is married to actor Daniel Blinkoff, whom she had dated for many years.