---
name: "Joanna Sotomura"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/joanna-sotomura"
fi1m_id: "joanna-sotomura"
imdb_id: "nm4000287"
tmdb_id: 1373626
wikidata_id: "Q1420743"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 January 1985"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-01T00:27:34.208418+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Joanna Sotomura

## Identity

Joanna Sotomura

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/joanna-sotomura
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** joanna-sotomura
- **IMDb ID:** nm4000287
- **TMDB ID:** 1373626
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1420743
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Sotomura, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1420743, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4000287/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1373626

Actor. Born 1 January 1985 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1985, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- **Active:** 2018–present
- **Also known as:** Joanna Reed Sotomura, ジョアンナ・サトムラ
- **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 85 (1), 2020s 64 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Sotomura, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1420743, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4000287/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1373626

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Sunny*](https://film.one/tv/sunny.md) (64)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Joanna Sotomura is an American actor. She graduated from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre Arts in 2009.

She is best known for playing the title role of Emma Woodhouse in the web series *Emma Approved* (2013–2014, 80 episodes), which received a Creative Arts Emmy Award. Sotomura has appeared in guest roles on series including *Criminal Minds* (2005), *Hawaii Five-0* (2010), *The Good Place* (2016), *Barry* (2018) and *Chicago Med* (2015). In 2024 she provided the voice of the robot Sunny in the Apple TV+ series *Sunny*.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, joysauce.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Sunny* (2024), Fi1m 64, as Sunny (voice) — [page](https://film.one/tv/sunny.md)
- *Barry* (2018), Fi1m 85, as Casey — [page](https://film.one/tv/barry.md)

## Complete filmography (25)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Sunny* (2024), series, as Sunny (voice) — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/tv/sunny.md)
- *Boy Band* (2024), as Holly Sweeney
- *Bookie* (2023), series, as Gabby
- *I Love That for You* (2022), series, as Cheryl
- *Barry* (2018), series, as Casey — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/tv/barry.md)
- *Heartless* (2018), as Clare McKaskill
- *Great News* (2017), series, as Hayley
- *Negative* (2017), as Abigail
- *Get the Girl* (2017), as Jane
- *The Good Place* (2016), series, as Véronique — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-good-place.md)
- *Chicago Med* (2015), series, as Jean Leilani
- *Crazy Ex-Girlfriend* (2015), series, as Zoe — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/crazy-ex-girlfriend.md)
- *Life in Pieces* (2015), series, as Jordana
- *Contracted: Phase II* (2015), as Debbie
- *Everything Before Us* (2015), as Anna
- *The Poisoning* (2013), as Michelle
- *Geek USA* (2013), as Kyra Featherstone
- *Emma Approved* (2013), series, as Emma Woodhouse
- *Video Game High School* (2012), series, as Duchess of Kart
- *Revenge* (2011), series, as Phoebe
- *Hawaii Five-0* (2010), series, as Mila — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/tv/hawaii-five-0.md)
- *Rizzoli & Isles* (2010), series, as Staff Member
- *NCIS: Los Angeles* (2009), series, as Christina Ng
- *Criminal Minds* (2005), series, as Geena Raptis — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/tv/criminal-minds.md)
- *Recovery*, as Kim

## Gallery

- ![Joanna Sotomura](https://film.one/media/person/824632/gallery-40526aef7af9.jpg) Joanna Sotomura — Image via TMDB
- ![Joanna Sotomura](https://film.one/media/person/824632/gallery-5e8c1979d47f.jpg) Joanna Sotomura — Image via TMDB

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