Actress. She is best remembered for her portrayal of the headstrong Kim Sung in "Walk Like a Dragon" (1960). Born Nobu Atsumi, she was raised in a family of wealth and position. While attending a social function in Los Angeles, California, she was discovered by talent agent Fred Ishimoto. Impressed by her dark good looks, professionalism, and charm, he took notice of her potential and arranged for her to begin a career in the film industry beginning with her appearing in a supporting role in "The Geisha Boy" (1958). From there, she would go on to flourish as a notable character actress appearing in over 60 features; often typecast as white-collared workers, exotics, femme fatales, salesladies, retail clerks, businesswomen, nurses, secretaries, faithful friends, educators, landladies, kindly neighbors, clergywomen, wives, mothers, housekeepers, old maids, and matriarchs. She appeared in such feature films as "The Hunters" (1958), "Tokyo After Dark" (1959), "Five Gates to Hell" (1959), "Wake Me When It's Over" (1960), "Love with the Proper Stranger" (1963), "The Karate Kid Part II" (1986), "The Wash" (1988), "Pacific Heights" (1990), "Painted Desert" (1993), and "Last Chance" (1999). On television, she became an even more familiar face appearing in numerous guest spots on such syndicated sitcoms as "The Adventures of McGraw," "Playhouse 90," "Sea Hunt," "The Red Skelton Hour," "Johnny Staccato," "Pony Express," "Adventures in Paradise," "The Islanders," "Checkmate," "Follow the Sun," "Laramie," "Wagon Train," "The Bing Crosby Show," "Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre," "Mister Ed," "Perry Mason," "The Wackiest Ship in the Army," "Batman," "Tarzan," "The Wild Wild West," "It Takes a Thief," "The Felony Squad," "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.," "Love, American Style," "Anna and the King," "Kung Fu," "The Magician," "Happy Days," "Barney Miller," "Quincy, M.E.," "The Blue Knight," "T.J. Hooker," "The Love Boat," "Diff'rent Strokes, "Magnum, P.I.," "China Beach," and "Popcorn Zen". During her career, she was a naturalized United States citizen, was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, had been supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, had been a theatrical instructress for the UCLA, was a "Miss Tokyo", had been one of the founding members of the Canyon Theatre Guild, was an honorary president of the East West Players, had been the 1991 recipient of the Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Lead Performance, had been an active parishioner of the Catholic church, was supportive of the California State Democratic Committee, and she was married to serviceman David McCarthy from 1955 to 1971 and to nobility William Cuthbert from 1977 to 1997 (her first union ended in divorce and produced two children while her second union ended upon Cuthbert's death).