Karen Fukuhara (born February 10, 1992)^[3] is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Katana in the 2016 DC superhero film Suicide Squad and as The Female in the 2019 Amazon Prime original series The Boys. She is also known for voicing the character Glimmer in the Netflix series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.

Fukuhara was born and raised in Los Angeles. Her first language was Japanese, and she has a younger brother.^[4]

While attending UCLA, she continued to work on numerous shows on NHK in Japan, most notably those on the Disney Channel as a member of Movie Surfers.^[5][6] She was also involved in the a cappella group, Medleys, during her college career. Fukuhara graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Theater.^[1][2]

In 2016, Fukuhara made her film debut as Tatsu Yamashiro / Katana in the superhero film Suicide Squad, which was released in August 2016.^[7][8] Although she had prior martial arts experience with a brown striped belt in karate, Fukuhara trained for about two months during pre-production in order to learn how to wield a sword correctly.^[9]

In early December 2016, Fukuhara announced that she had completed the first week of filming for Stray (alongside Christine Woods, Miyavi, and Ross Partridge).^[10]

Fukuhara voiced the characters Sewer Queen and Alexis in the pilot for 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.^[11]

In 2019, she began starring in the main role of The Female in the Amazon Prime series, The Boys.^[12] The series is based on the comic book of the same name.^[13]