Emily Kuroda 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, Los Angeles' premier Asian American theater group. 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.

Kuroda has performed in numerous plays including Luis Alfaro's Straight as a Line at Playwrights Arena, directed by Jon Rivera, Chay Yew's Red at East West Players and Winter People at the Boston Court. Other theatres include New York's Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Singapore Repertory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, LA Women's Shakespeare Company, Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival, and Lodestone Theatre Ensemble.

Kuroda has completed her seventh year as Mrs. Kim in Warner Brothers’ Gilmore Girls. Other television credits include In Case Of Emergency, Six Feet Under, 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 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 Yellow and Stand Up for Justice.

Emily Kuroda has performed in numerous plays including Luis Alfaro's "Straight as a Line" at Playwrights Arena, directed by Jon Rivera, Chay Yew's "Red" at East West Players and "Winter People" at the Boston Court. Other theatres include Kirk Douglas Theatre, South Coast Rep, New York's Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Singapore Repertory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Doolittle Theater, Huntington Theater (Boston), Los Angeles Theater Center, Zephyr Theater, LA Women's Shakespeare Company, and the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival. She is the recipient of five Dramalogue Awards, a Garland Award for outstanding performance, an L.A. Ovation award nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Play, Playwrights' Arena Outstanding Contribution to LA Theatre, and East West Players' Rae Creevey Award. She is married to Actor/director Alberto Isaac. She has two brothers, Paul Kuroda (an award winning photographer in Oakland) and Douglas Kuroda (An award winning mechanic and is now an electrics in Fresno).