^ "Stunning New Star Wars: Visions Trailer Debuts"." 'The Boys': 'Suicide Squad's Karen Fukuhara Cast In Amazon's Superhero Drama Series". ^ "She-Ra gets a makeover! A first look at the new Netflix series and meet the cast".Brown, Dan Stevens And More Set For Animated Series". " 'Kipo And The Age Of Wonderbeasts': Karen Fukuhara, Sterling K. " 'She-Ra And the Princesses Of Power': Aimee Carrero, Karen Fukuhara, Sandra Oh Among Voice Cast". Spenser flashed his toothy, little-boy grin as he walked past Aiden and. "Christine Woods, 'Suicide Squad's Karen Fukuhara & More Join 'Sleight' Team's 'Stray' ". The young girl jumped at Lex's bark, but then rolled her eyes as she finished. "Suicide Squad Cast Reveals First Trailer At Comic-Con". "Suicide Squad: everything you need to know". ^ a b c "Next Big Thing: 'Suicide Squad's' Karen Fukuhara Explains Her Tattoo From Margot Robbie".^ "Young Superstar Karen Fukuhara Joins Suicide Squad with a Mission"."Karen Fukuhara Talks 'Suicide Squad,' Katana, and 'Dora the Explorer' ". ^ a b c d e Nguyen, Minh (August 1, 2016)."Attention, Hollywood: It's time to give these 11 Asian stars their due". ^ Andrea, Mandell Truitt, Brian Alexander, Bryan (February 15, 2017)."Meet Karen Fukuhara, Suicide Squad 's Karate-Trained Breakout Star". ^ a b c d e f Regensdorf, Laura (August 5, 2016).Short film: The Village Bride: English language dub The series is based on the short-lived webcomic named Kipo. In 2020, she voiced the titular lead character of Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts. In 2019, she began starring as Kimiko in the Amazon Prime series The Boys, based on the comic book of the same name.
In 2018, she began voicing Glimmer in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, a reboot of the 1985 animated television series. įukuhara voiced the characters Sewer Queen and Alexis in the Cartoon Network series Craig of the Creek. In 2019, Fukuhara appeared in Stray (alongside Christine Woods, Miyavi, and Ross Partridge).
Although she had prior martial arts experience, Fukuhara trained for about two months during pre-production in order to learn how to wield a sword correctly. In 2016, Fukuhara's film debut as Katana in the DC Comics superhero film Suicide Squad, which was released in August 2016. Prior to her acting debut, Fukuhara worked various part-time jobs, including as a translator, subtitle editor, and waitress at a reggae-themed sushi restaurant.
Fukuhara, pictured in 2022 attending South by Southwest to promote The Boysįukuhara got her start in the entertainment industry in middle school when she was cast as a host for Movie Surfers, a short form entertainment news program on the Disney Channel.