Suzy Nakamura

Acting

Suzy Nakamura

Born 1973-12-02 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Susan Aiko "Suzy" Nakamura (born December 2, 1973; height 5' 4" (1,63 m)) is an American actress. She starred opposite Ted Danson in the ABC sitcom Help Me Help You. Nakamura has also had many guest appearances on American sitcoms such as According to Jim, Half and Half, 8 Simple Rules, Curb Your Enthusiasm and How I Met Your Mother and had a recurring role in the early seasons of the drama The West Wing as assistant to the Sam Seaborn character. She is an alumna of The Second City improvisational comedy troupe. Her first film role was as a troubled teen in Rea Tajiri's Strawberry Fields, shot in her hometown of Chicago in 1994.

Acting credits

The 40 Year-Old Virgin poster
6.4

Andy Stitzer has a pleasant life with a nice apartment and a job stamping invoices at an electronics store. But at age 40, there's one thing Andy hasn't done, and it's really bothering his sex-obsessed male co-workers: Andy is still a virgin. Determined to help Andy get laid, the guys make it their mission to de-virginize him. But it all seems hopeless until Andy meets small business owner Trish, a single mom.

The 40 Year-Old Virgin

2005

Deep Impact poster
6.2

A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian crew into space to destroy the comet before impact. Meanwhile, an enterprising reporter uses her smarts to uncover the scoop of the century.

Deep Impact

1998

Horrible Bosses 2 poster
6.2

Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don't go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a harebrained and misguided kidnapping scheme.

Horrible Bosses 2

2014

DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story poster
6.4

When megalomaniacal White Goodman, the owner of a trendy, high-end fitness center, makes a move to take over the struggling local gym run by happy-go-lucky Pete La Fleur, there's only one way for La Fleur to fight back: dodgeball. Aided by a dodgeball guru and Goodman's attorney, La Fleur and his rag-tag team of underdogs launch a knock-down, drag-out battle in which the winner takes all.

DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story

2004

Evan Almighty poster
5.6

God contacts Junior Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark in preparation for a great flood.

Evan Almighty

2007

Luck poster
7.8

Suddenly finding herself in the never-before-seen Land of Luck, the unluckiest person in the world must unite with the magical creatures there to turn her luck around.

Luck

2022

8MM poster
6.5

A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town PI.

8MM

1999

Knox Goes Away poster
7.0

A contract killer, after being diagnosed with a fast-moving form of dementia, is presented with the opportunity to redeem himself by saving the life of his estranged adult son. But to do so, he must race against the police closing in on him as well as the ticking clock of his own rapidly deteriorating mind.

Knox Goes Away

2024

Miss You, Love You poster
6.7

A blunt, grieving widow is forced to plan her husband’s funeral with a total stranger: her estranged gay son’s gay assistant. As they fumble through grief and their strange, darkly funny circumstances, buried secrets and long-held resentments surface, but their partnership becomes an unlikely conduit for connection, laughter, and healing for this mother and her unexpected surrogate son.

Miss You, Love You

2026

Must Love Dogs poster
5.9

Sarah Nolan is a newly divorced woman cautiously rediscovering romance with the enthusiastic but often misguided help of her well-meaning family. As she braves a series of hilarious disastrous mismatches and first dates, Sarah begins to trust her own instincts again and learns that, no matter what, it's never a good idea to give up on love.

Must Love Dogs

2005

Afternoon Delight poster
5.7

Rachel is a quick-witted and lovable stay-at-home mom, frustrated with the responsibilities of her son's preschool, a lacklustre sex life and a career that's gone kaput. One night, intent on spicing up their marriage, she visits an LA strip club with her husband, where she meets McKenna, a stripper she adopts as her live-in nanny.

Afternoon Delight

2013

Stark Raving Mad poster
6.1

A crook quietly plots his revenge against the boss who murdered his brother while working for him.

Stark Raving Mad

2002

Daisy Winters poster
6.6

An eleven year-old girl's unconventional yet deeply loving relationship with her mother is harshly broken. Along her journey, including her quest to discover her father, she learns how to embrace every moment with determination and unrelenting self-confidence.

Daisy Winters

2017

Malibu's Most Wanted poster
5.4

A senator arranges for his son, a rich white kid who fancies himself black, to be kidnapped by a couple of black actors pretending to be murderers to try and shock him out of his plans to become a rapper.

Malibu's Most Wanted

2003

For Your Consideration poster
5.8

The possibility of Oscar gold holds the cast and crew of an independent film in its grip after the performance of its virtually unknown, veteran star generates awards buzz.

For Your Consideration

2006

Above the Line poster
7.4

Six struggling Hollywood hopefuls team up for the ultimate comeback by plotting to steal the Oscar statuettes from the crooked producer who crushed their dreams.

Above the Line

2025

The Little Engine That Could poster
6.2

Featuring an all-star cast, the timeless story comes to life in this all-new, feature-length film filled with fun and adventure!

The Little Engine That Could

2011

Free Samples poster
5.6

A Stanford law-school dropout named Jillian escapes to the anonymity of Los Angeles to figure out what she wants to do with her life, and on the day of her college boyfriend's birthday, she finds herself stuck running an ice cream truck fending off locals and oddball friends alike. This one day spent in a truck on the streets of Los Angeles will wake Jillian from her aimless daze and make her see that life doesn't stop just because you want it to.

Free Samples

2013

Tuna poster
5.3

First part of an abandoned trilogy. Although it was filmed in 2000, it was not released until writer Adam DeCoster uploaded it to YouTube from a friend's digitized copy in 2013. For years, it was muted due to music copyright issues, but was finally reuploaded in 2025.

Tuna

2013

Timecode poster
5.6

A production company begins casting for its next feature, and an up-and-coming actress named Rose tries to manipulate her filmmaker boyfriend, Alex, into giving her a screen test. Alex's wife, Emma, knows about the affair and is considering divorce, while Rose's girlfriend secretly spies on her and attempts to sabotage the relationship. The four storylines in the film were each shot in one take and are shown simultaneously, each taking up a quarter of the screen.

Timecode

2000

Men Seeking Women poster
4.5

Three best friends mess up their already flagging love lives with an ill-fated bet. They each put two thousand dollars in a bank account, with the winner being the one who can not only get a girlfriend, but also live with her for three months. Nick decides to hoodwink his two friends by faking a relationship with an old girlfriend from college, while Al proceeds to embark on a series of the worst dates imaginable, and Les finds himself getting deeply involved with an alluring but mysterious woman who may or may not be married to a mobster. Hilarious antics lead to an unexpected outcome guaranteed to surprise.

Men Seeking Women

1997

Held Up poster
4.3

A disgruntled and bored bank teller named Ray finally gets his wish for some excitement when the branch is held up by two teams of crazy robbers disguised as Rocky I, Rocky II, Batman and Robin. As the robbery unfolds, the hostages fall victim to a comedic version of the Stockholm Syndrome and begin sympathizing with their dimwitted captors, which leads to an extended siege as Ray pursues a romantic relationship with one of the robbers.

Held Up

2010

Spy School poster
4.7

Spy School is the story of a twelve year old boy known for telling tall tales who overhears a plot to kidnap the President's daughter. When he goes public with his story, no one believes him, and he is forced to save her on his own.

Spy School

2008

Hangman poster
NR

A recently widowed woman works through the complexities of grief with the help of friends, strangers and Tupperware.

Hangman

2023