Lori Alan
Acting
Biography
Lori Alan (née Denniberg, born July 18, 1966) is an American actress, voice actress, writer, producer, and stand-up comedian. She voices the long-running role of Pearl Krabs the Whale on the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. She also voices news anchor Diane Simmons on Family Guy, the Invisible Woman on Fantastic Four, and The Boss in the Metal Gear video game series, as well as various voices on Hey Arnold!. She voiced for movies including Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Inside Out, Monsters University, Despicable Me 2, Minions, and as Bonnie's Mom in Toy Story 3 & 4 (and Toy Story Toons). She started acting at age five, making her television debut in a Shakey's Pizza commercial. Her stage debut was as Annie's youngest sister in a local community theater production of Annie Get Your Gun. A longtime member of New York's Gotham City Improv (Groundlings East), she went on to Emerson College and graduated with honors from Tisch School of the Arts.
Born: July 18, 1966
Place of Birth: Potomac, Maryland, USA
Known For
Hollywood Is Like High School with Money
Hollywood Is Like High School With Money is a web series about a 24-year-old woman who gets advice from her boss's teen queen daughter on how to make it in Hollywood. Taylor Henning thought the horrors of high school were behind her, but catty co-workers and office sabotage make working in Hollywood equally treacherous. When her boss’s teen queen bee daughter, Quinn, sees how clueless Taylor is, Quinn agrees to teach Taylor how to outsmart her competition. After all, Hollywood is like high school with money, and Quinn knows all the rules. From how to charm powerful hotties, to the best way to crash an A-List party — Hollywood skills can be learned and Taylor is about to get schooled. Based on the novel Hollywood Is Like High School With Money. Starring Kelsey Sanders (Private, iCarly, Wizards of Waverly Place), Ian Harding (Pretty Little Liars), and Brian Hallisay (Privileged), with a cameo appearance by Whitney Port (The City).
The Rookie
Starting over isn't easy, especially for small-town guy John Nolan who, after a life-altering incident, is pursuing his dream of being an LAPD officer. As the force's oldest rookie, he’s met with skepticism from some higher-ups who see him as just a walking midlife crisis.
Friends
Six young people from New York City, on their own and struggling to survive in the real world, find the companionship, comfort and support they get from each other to be the perfect antidote to the pressures of life.
3-South
3 South is an American animated series that aired on MTV. The show focused on two lifelong friends, Sanford and Del, and their adventures at the fictional Barder College. With the exception of their roommate Joe, nearly everyone at Barder is stupid and inept. Nonetheless, the idiotic, irresponsible, and thoughtless Sanford and Del are portrayed as the series' heroes, whereas the responsible, intelligent Joe is the de facto villain in most episodes. The series was created by Family Guy veteran writers Mark Hentemann and Steve Callaghan, based on a short film they had created years earlier. It is to-date the only animated series produced for MTV by Warner Bros. Animation. The show's theme song is The Flaming Lips' song "Fight Test" from the album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.
Charmed
Three sisters (Prue, Piper and Phoebe) reunite and unlock their powers to become the Charmed Ones, the most powerful good witches of all time, whose prophesied destiny is to protect innocent lives from evil beings such as demons and warlocks. Each sister possesses unique magical powers that grow and evolve, while they attempt to maintain normal lives in modern day San Francisco.
Bones
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.
Grey's Anatomy
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle's Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
Shameless
Chicagoan Frank Gallagher is the proud single dad of six smart, industrious, independent kids, who without him would be... perhaps better off. When Frank's not at the bar spending what little money they have, he's passed out on the floor. But the kids have found ways to grow up in spite of him. They may not be like any family you know, but they make no apologies for being exactly who they are.
WALL·E
What if mankind had to leave Earth and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off? After hundreds of years doing what he was built for, WALL•E discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE comes to realize that WALL•E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet's future, and races back to space to report to the humans. Meanwhile, WALL•E chases EVE across the galaxy and sets into motion one of the most imaginative adventures ever brought to the big screen.
Lab Rats
Leo is an ordinary teenager who has moved into a high-tech "smart'' house with his mother, inventor stepfather and Eddy, the computer that runs the house. Leo's life becomes less ordinary when, one day, he discovers a secret underground lab that houses three experiments: superhuman teenagers. The trio -- Adam, the strong one, Bree, the fast one and Chase, the smart one -- convinces Leo and his parents to let them leave their lab and join Leo at school, where they try to fit in while having to manage their unpredictable bionic strengths. As Leo figures out a way to keep his new pals' bionic abilities a secret, they help him build self-confidence.
Filmography
as Bonnie's Mom (voice)
as Pearl (voice) (uncredited)
as Debbie
as Pearl / A Woman in Crowd (voice)
as Pearl / Teen Girls (voice)
as Deborah
as Marilyn (voice)
as Commentator
as Goose (voice)
as Sara Berger
as Princess Pearlina (voice)
as Pearl / Child (voice)
as Pearl / Ventriloquist Dummy / Audience / Soldiers (voice)
as Pearl Krabs (voice)
as Self
as Bonnie's Mom (voice)
as Mom - Marguerite
as Additional Voices (voice)
as Gary’s Neighbor
as Didi
as Mrs. Teevee (voice)
as Additional Voice (voice)
as Marilyn (voice)
as Fish Woman #1 (voice)
as Zombietologist
as Elaine
as Mom's Sadness (voice)
as Additional Voices (voice)
as Additional Voices (voice)
as Pearl (voice)
as Bonnie's Mom (voice)
as Angela Park
as Additional Voices (voice)
as Evelyn (voice)
as Bonnie's mom (voice)
as Ms. Gleason
as Mrs. Harris
as Additional Voices (voice)
as Additional Voices (voice)
as Pearl
as Bonnie's Mom (voice)
as Additional Voice Talent (voice)
as Gloria Gorilla (voice)
as Gloria (voice)
as Edie
as Bonnie's Mom / Tae-Kwon Doe (voice)
as Pearl Krabs
as Blue Hawk (voice)
as Mrs. Anderson (voice)
as Betsy Russ
as Stacy Baer
as Additional Voice Talent (voice)
as Robbi Nathan
as Iris Whitaker
as Additional Voice Talent (voice)
as Bonnie's Mom (voice)
as Linda Robbins
as Additional Voice Talent (voice)
as Mrs. Shtotelman
as Additional Voices (voice)
as D.A. Deborah Janowitz
as Ms. Papen
as Additional Voice Talent (voice)
as Additional Voices (voice)
as Additional Voices (voice)
as Diane Simmons as Imperial Newscaster (voice)
as Bill Bergey
as Dixie (voice)
as Dixie / Nerd (voice)
as Ivory / Dixie (voice)
as Dixie / Mail Woman / Eunice (voice)
as Ivory / Nerds (voice)
as Ivory / Dr. Joy / Additional Voices (voice)
as Dixie / Ivory (voice)
as Ms. Flowers
as Gina Carlson
as Diane Simmons (voice)
as Kathy Weber
as Ellen Weaver
as Pearl (voice)
as Green (voice)
as Leslie / Henna St. Chloe-Butz / Co-Ed 1 (voice)
as Grandma / Woman / TV Reporter (voice)
as Porsche / Tour Guide / Sunshine (voice)
as Anita Levine
as Loretta
as Macy's Saleswoman
as Harmony
as Young Larry's Mom Rose
as Valerie Esposito
as Lady Fish (voice)
as Pearl (voice)
as Diane Simmons as Imperial Newscaster (voice)
as Diane Simmons / Girl (voice)
as Diane Simmons / Jolene (voice)
as Diane Simmons / Lady (voice)
as Diane Simmons / Eva Braun (voice)
as Diane Simmons / Coco (voice)
as Diane Simmons / Charles Lindbergh's Wife (voice)
as Cynthia
as Jean
as Elder's Daughter (voice)
as Rhonda's Mother (voice)
as Secretary / Cop / Candy Lady (voice)
as Gwen
as Sabrina's Car (voice)
as Liz
as Wife Mrs. Habib
as Theresa
as Cindy / Loudspeaker Voice (voice)
as Girl with Attitude
as Karen Kupfer
as Sue Storm / Invisible Woman (voice)
as Sonya
as Rachel Carson
as Cleopatra
as Susan Storm-Richards / Invisible Woman (voice) (archive footage)
as The T.A.
as Lt. Felina Feral (voice)
as Martha