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Emily Kuroda (born October 30, 1952) 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,〔(Asia Pacific Arts magazine interview with Emily Kuroda )〕 Los Angeles' premier Asian American theater group. ==Life and career== 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. She starred as "Su Ho" on the MyNetworkTV sitcom ''Under One Roof'' starring Flavor Flav. 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,〔(Los Angeles Times, A Place She Can Call Home, September 30, 2001 )〕 ''Winter People'' at the Boston Court, and Ken Narasaki's ''Innocent When You Dream'' at the Electric Lodge,〔(Program for ''Innocent When You Dream'', Timescape Arts Group )〕 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. Kuroda completed seven years as Mrs. Kim in Warner Brothers’ ''Gilmore Girls'' and 13 episodes of ''Under One Roof'' with Flavor Flav. Recent television credits include a recurring role on ''Drop Dead Diva'' as (Margaret Cho's mother), ''Medium'', ''Grey's Anatomy'', ''In Case of Emergency'', ''Six Feet Under'', ''The King of Queens'', ''Curb Your Enthusiasm'', ''The Practice'', ''General Hospital'', ''Port Charles'', ''L.A. Law'', ''ER'', ''The Young and the Restless'', ''The Bold and the Beautiful'', ''The Division'', ''The Agency'', ''Presidio Med'', ''Arliss'', and the television special ''About Love'' (Emmy nominated). Feature films include RED, PEEP WORLD, ''Minority Report'', ''Stranger Inside'', ''2 Days in the Valley'', ''Dad'', ''Broken Words'', ''Worth Winning'' and ''Shopgirl''. She has also appeared in independent Asian American films, including ''The Sensei'', ''Yellow'' and ''Stand Up for Justice''. Emily is married to actor/director Alberto Isaac.〔 She has two brothers, Paul Kuroda (an award-winning photographer in Oakland, California) and her younger brother Douglas Kuroda, an electrician in Fresno, California. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Emily Kuroda」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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