Karen Fukuhara Shines in Prime Video’s Flagship Show
By James Moreau | 28 Jun, 2026

After launching her career as Katana in Suicide Squad, the versatile actress now anchors the platform’s most-watched streaming superhero series, The Boys.

Karen Fukuhara stars in Amazon Prime Video’s flagship superhero series The Boys, portraying Kimiko Miyashiro across 40 episodes.  The multi-Emmy Award-winning global hit premiered its fifth season in April, and consistently ranks as the platform’s most-watched series.

Fukuhara made her feature film debut in 2016 as the sword-wielding superhero Katana in the DC Comics blockbuster Suicide Squad. The film grossed $750 million at the global box office, yielding high visibility for her first major project.

Her career also features extensive voice roles in major animated properties.  Fukuhara starred as the titular protagonist Kipo Oak in Netflix’s Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts in 2020, voiced Glimmer in the animated series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power from 2018 to 2020, and portrayed Haru in the English dub of Pokémon Concierge from 2023 to 2025.

Before her screen acting breakthrough, Fukuhara studied at UCLA, graduating in 2014 with a bachelor of arts in sociology and a minor in theater.  During her college years, she balanced her education while working as a sports reporter for a show on NHK, Japan’s public broadcasting network.

The 34-year-old Japanese American actress is a Los Angeles native. Growing up in a bilingual household, she attended a Japanese language school on Saturdays for 11 years and trained in Shotokan karate throughout her youth.

In Fukuhara’s next project, she will star as Officer Leah Mizuno in the Lionsgate and ABC police procedural spin-off The Rookie: North, which is scheduled to premiere in early 2027.