Amy Okuda is a Japanese-American actress. She portrayed Julia Sasaki on the

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'' (2017–2021), where she was a series regular during the first two seasons. Okuda is most well-known as Tinkerballa in the popular web series '' The Guild''.

Early life

Okuda was born in

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. Her early years focused on

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, which she played from the age of five. She began dancing in the seventh grade and took up acting a few years later.

Career

In 2007, she landed a role in the TV show ''

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. Also in 2007, Okuda got the role of Tinkerballa in '' The Guild'', her first recurring role. As of the end of season four, she has been in all of the show's episodes, with the exception of a few Season 3 episodes where her character was mentioned but not seen. In 2010, she appeared in a short educational film about the

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. While flying to Saturn, she observes a giant ring newly discovered in 2009 by

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. In 2011, she appeared in the Break.com original music video "Tonight, I'm Frakking You" which is a

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and video game parody of the song " Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)" by

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. In the video, she appears along with Alessandra Torresani, Kunal Nayyar, and Matthew Brown. In November 2011, she was cast in a horror-social satire film titled ''Chastity Bites''. She plays queen bee "mean girl" Ashley Thorne. In June 2012, she played Samantha in the

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. The film starred Jen Chae and Victor Kim. In April 2013, she appeared in the episode "The Bachelor" of '' The Middle'' (season 4, episode 19) as Sue's Tennis opponent, and on the '' TableTop'' web series. On March 25, 2014, she appeared in ''

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''s season finale "Charges and Specs" (season 1, episode 22) as Sgt. Terry Jeffords' former girlfriend. She reprised the role in two later episodes. In 2014, she starred in José Manuel Cravioto's horror thriller film ''Reversal'', along Keith Johnson and Bianca Malinowski. In 2015, she appeared in Season 2 of

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'' on ABC. Okuda also appeared as Christine Tanaka in two episodes of the television series adapted from Philip K. Dick's novel '' The Man in the High Castle''. In 2016, Okuda was cast as Julia Sasaki in the

comedy television series ''

'', which debuted on August 11, 2017.

Personal life

On November 3, 2018, Okuda married fiancé Mitchell Hashimoto.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

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