Tamlyn Tomita (Born January 27, 1966, Okinawa) is a Japanese-born American actress who has appeared in many Hollywood films and television series. She is of one quarter-Filipino descent (her mother is half Filipina, half Japanese). Until the spring of 2006, she dated Japanese American actor Greg Watanabe (brother of American Girls bassist Miiko Watanabe), whom she met when they starred together in The Summer Moon at Seattle's A Contemporary Theatre. January 27 is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the prefecture. ... January 27 is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... This article is about the prefecture. ... Greg Watanabe is an American actor who played Issac on the MyNetworkTV serial Watch Over Me. ... American Girls were an all-women band based in California, USA. American Girls originally started as a film project, which fizzled. ...

Before becoming an actress, she won the title of Queen at the Nisei Week Pageant in Los Angeles, and Miss Nikkei International, both in 1984. Nisei Week is a annual festival celebrating Japanese American culture and history in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. ...

Filmography

• 1986: The Karate Kid, Part II
• 1987: Hawaiian Dream
• 1990: Vietnam, Texas
• 1990: Come See the Paradise
• 1993: The Joy Luck Club
• 1994: Picture Bride
• 1995: Requiem
• 1995: Four Rooms
• 1996: The Killing Jar
• 1997: Touch
• 1997: Hundred Percent
• 1998: Soundman
• 1999: Life Tastes Good
• 2002: Gaijin - Ama-me como sou
• 2003: Robot Stories
• 2004: The Day After Tomorrow
• 2005: Only The Brave

The Karate Kid, Part II (1986) is a Hollywood adventure-drama movie and is a sequel to The Karate Kid. ... Come See the Paradise is a 1990 movie directed by Alan Parker and starring Dennis Quaid and Tamlyn Tomita. ... For the novel, see The Joy Luck Club The Joy Luck Club is a 1993 American movie about the relationships between Chinese-American women and their Chinese mothers. ... Picture Bride is a 1994 independent film directed by Kayo Hatta from a script by Hatta, Mari Hatta and Diane Mei Lin Mark, co-produced by Diane Mei Lin Mark and Lisa Onodera. ... Four Rooms is a 1995 anthology film telling four stories set in a Los Angeles hotel on New Years Eve. ... Touch soundtrack album cover Touch is a 1997 film written and directed by Paul Schrader. ... Movie poster for Robot Stories Robot Stories is a 2003 independent film written and directed by Greg Pak. ... The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 apocalyptic science-fiction film that depicts catastrophic effects of global warming and boasts high-end special effects, bending the lines between science, reality and science fiction. ... Only The Brave is a 2005 independent film about the 100th Infantry Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated World War II fighting unit completely made up of Japanese Americans, which for its size and length service became the most decorated unit in U.S. military history. ...

Notable TV appearances

• 1992: Quantum Leap, playing Tamlyn Matsuda, a psychic in the episode "Temptation Eyes".
• 1993: Babylon 5, playing Lt. Commander Laurel Takashima in the pilot episode "The Gathering."
• 2002-2003: 24, playing Jenny, Press Secretary to President David Palmer.
• 2002-2003: JAG, playing Lieutenant Commander Tracy Manetti.
• 2006: Commander in Chief, playing Randy, a Japanese translator to the President Mackenzie Allen in the episode "No Nukes is Good Nukes."
• 2006: Stargate SG-1, playing a Chinese diplomat in the episode "The Scourge."
• 2006: Eureka, playing scientist Kim Anderson in the episodes "Before I Forget" and "Once in a Lifetime."

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Other

• 2002: 007: Nightfire (James Bond game) as Makiko Hayashi

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External links

• Tamlyn Tomita at the Internet Movie Database
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