Karen Fukuhara

Fukuhara was born on February 10, 1992 to Japanese parents in Los Angeles. Her first language was Japanese, and she attended a Japanese language school on Saturdays for 11 years. Fukuhara attended University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) while working as a reporter for a sports show on NHK in Japan. She was a part of the Cultural Affairs Commission. She was a member of the a cappella group Medleys, whose alumni include fellow actress Kelly Marie Tran. Fukuhara graduated from UCLA in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and a minor in Theater. ==Career==

Fukuhara 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. Although she had martial arts experience, Fukuhara trained for about two months to learn to wield a sword. Fukuhara voiced the characters Sewer Queen and Alexis in the Cartoon Network series Craig of the Creek. In 2018, she began voicing Glimmer in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, a reboot of the 1985 animated television series. In 2019, she began starring as Kimiko Miyashiro / The Female in the Amazon Prime series The Boys, based on the comic book of the same name. In 2020, she voiced the titular lead character of Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, a series based on the short-lived webcomic Kipo. In 2023, Netflix announced that Fukuhara would voice Haru, the titular character of Pokémon Concierge. ==Filmography==

Film Television Video games Commercials ==Awards==

• 2021 IMDb StarMeter Award • 2024 Hollywood Creative Alliance Astra Award for Best Actress in a Streaming Drama (for The Boys) ==References==