Emily Kuroda (born October , ) is an American actress. She is best
known for her role as Mrs. Kim on TV's Gilmore Girls, but she has had
a long career on stage and screen and is a veteran of East West
Players, Los Angeles's premier Asian American theater group.Kuroda, a
Japanese-American, was born in Fresno, California, the daughter of Kay
and William Kuroda. She began acting and directing in high school and
majored in drama at California State University, Fresno before
launching her career on stage and screen.Kuroda has performed in
numerous plays including Luis Alfaro's Straight as a Line at
Playwrights' Arena, directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera, Chay Yew's Red at
East West Players, Winter People at the Boston Court, and Ken
Narasaki's Innocent When You Dream at the Electric Lodge, which was
directed by her husband, Alberto Isaac. She appeared in Narasaki's
No-No Boy at the Miles Memorial Playhouse in Santa Monica CA, also
directed by Isaac, alongside her Gilmore Girls daughter, Keiko Agena.
Other theatres include New York's Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse,
Seattle Rep, Singapore Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre,
LA Women's Shakespeare Company, Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival, and
Lodestone Theatre Ensemble.
known for her role as Mrs. Kim on TV's Gilmore Girls, but she has had
a long career on stage and screen and is a veteran of East West
Players, Los Angeles's premier Asian American theater group.Kuroda, a
Japanese-American, was born in Fresno, California, the daughter of Kay
and William Kuroda. She began acting and directing in high school and
majored in drama at California State University, Fresno before
launching her career on stage and screen.Kuroda has performed in
numerous plays including Luis Alfaro's Straight as a Line at
Playwrights' Arena, directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera, Chay Yew's Red at
East West Players, Winter People at the Boston Court, and Ken
Narasaki's Innocent When You Dream at the Electric Lodge, which was
directed by her husband, Alberto Isaac. She appeared in Narasaki's
No-No Boy at the Miles Memorial Playhouse in Santa Monica CA, also
directed by Isaac, alongside her Gilmore Girls daughter, Keiko Agena.
Other theatres include New York's Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse,
Seattle Rep, Singapore Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre,
LA Women's Shakespeare Company, Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival, and
Lodestone Theatre Ensemble.
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