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Tamlyn Naomi Tomita (b. January 27, 1966 in Okinawa, Japan) is a Japanese-born American actress who has appeared in several films and television series. She may be remembered by some for her role as Waverly Jong in the 1993 film The Joy Luck Club and her role as Dr. Kimberly Shiroma in the short-lived series The Burning Zone. Tomita is of Fillipino and Japanese descent and, before turning to acting, she won the pageant title of Queen at the Nisei Week Pageant in Los Angeles in 1984. In 1991, she was listed among People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People."

Tomita made her film debut in The Karate Kid, Part II. She also appeared on the soap opera Santa Barbara and in the film Vietnam, Texas. Notable genre appearances include Quantum Leap as Tamlyn Matsuda, Babylon 5: The Gathering as Laurel Takashima, Time Trax, Highlander: The Series, The Burning Zone, The Sentinel, The Last Man on Planet Earth, Seven Days, FreakyLinks, Robot Stories, Stargate SG-1, and Stargate Atlantis as Shen Xiaoyi, Eureka as Kim Anderson and the movie The Eye.

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