Lori Alan
Acting • Born 1966-07-18
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 5 (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.
Filmography
131 credits
Dean Slater: Resident Advisor
Movie • 2013
Mrs. Harris
Comic Book: The Movie
Movie • 2004
Anita Levine
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
Movie • 2004
Pearl (voice)
Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
Movie • 2005
Diane Simmons (voice)
SpongeBob SquarePants Presents The Tidal Zone
Movie • 2023
Pearl
Hawaiian Vacation
Movie • 2011
Mrs. Anderson (voice)
Minions & More Volume 1
Movie • 2022
Marilyn (voice)
Inside Out
Movie • 2015
Additional Voices (voice)
The Feeling Expert
Movie
Janice
LeapFrog: Math Circus
Movie • 2004
Green (voice)
Achmed Saves America
Movie • 2014
Evelyn (voice)
It's a SpongeBob Christmas!
Movie • 2012
Pearl
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Movie • 2009
Additional Voices (voice)
Despicable Me 2
Movie • 2013
Additional Voices (voice)
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
Movie • 2015
Pearl (voice)
The Fantastic Four: A Legend Begins
Movie • 1994
Susan Storm-Richards / Invisible Woman (voice) (archive footage)
Toy Story 3
Movie • 2010
Bonnie's Mom (voice)
WALL·E
Movie • 2008
Additional Voices (voice)
Spongebob’s Runaway Roadtrip
Movie • 2011
Pearl Krabs
Partysaurus Rex
Movie • 2012
Bonnie's Mom (voice)
Small Fry
Movie • 2011
Bonnie's Mom / Tae-Kwon Doe (voice)
Rolling with Dad
Movie • 2013
Air Mater
Movie • 2011
Blue Hawk (voice)
Father of the Bride Part II
Movie • 1995
Wife Mrs. Habib
Norman Television
Movie • 2016
Marilyn (voice)
Plankton: The Movie
Movie • 2025
Pearl / A Woman in Crowd (voice)
Larry and Steve
Movie • 1997
Despicable Me 3
Movie • 2017
Additional Voice (voice)
Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales
Movie • 2008
Additional Voices (voice)
The Radiator Springs 500½
Movie • 2014
Additional Voices (voice)
Monsters University
Movie • 2013
Additional Voices (voice)
Time Travel Mater
Movie • 2012
Additional Voice Talent (voice)
Heavy Metal Mater
Movie • 2010
Additional Voice Talent (voice)
The Grinch
Movie • 2018
Additional Voices (voice)
Minions
Movie • 2015
Additional Voices (voice)
Toy Story 4
Movie • 2019
Bonnie's Mom (voice)
Tokyo Mater
Movie • 2008
Additional Voice Talent (voice)
Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest
Movie • 2008
Diane Simmons as Imperial Newscaster (voice)
Holy Matrimony
Movie • 1994
Cleopatra
Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Movie • 2017
Mrs. Teevee (voice)
Toy Story That Time Forgot
Movie • 2014
Bonnie's Mom (voice)
Toy Story of Terror!
Movie • 2013
Bonnie's mom (voice)
Riley's First Date?
Movie • 2015
Mom's Sadness (voice)
The Way You Look Tonight
Movie • 2019
Mom - Marguerite
Boys on the Side
Movie • 1995
Girl with Attitude
The Fluffer
Movie • 2001
Harmony
Unidentified Flying Mater
Movie • 2009
Additional Voice Talent (voice)
Monster Truck Mater
Movie • 2010
Additional Voice Talent (voice)
It Takes Three
Movie • 2021
Sara Berger
SpongeBob Squarepants: Kreepaway Kamp
Movie • 2024
Pearl / Teen Girls (voice)
SpongeBob LongPants
Movie • 2016
Fish Woman #1 (voice)
Garage Sale
Movie • 1996
Gwen
Rescuing Madison
Movie • 2014
Angela Park
SpongeBob’s Big Birthday Blowout
Movie • 2019
Pearl / Pet Shop Woman
Catalogue of Noses
Movie • 2025
Debbie
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
Movie • 2025
Pearl (voice) (uncredited)
Toy Story 5
Movie • 2026
Bonnie's Mom (voice)
Spongebob and Sandy’s Country Christmas
Movie • 2024
Pearl
The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A.
Movie • 1994
Karen Kupfer
Hoppers
Movie • 2026
Additional Voices (voice)
Six Feet Under
TV • 2001
Macy's Saleswoman
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Martha
Chuck
TV • 2007
Bill Bergey
SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron
TV • 1993
Lt. Felina Feral (voice)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
TV • 2000
Valerie Esposito
3-South
TV • 2002
Family Guy
TV • 1999
Diane Simmons as Imperial Newscaster (voice)
Friends
TV • 1994
Sonya
Charmed
TV • 1998
Cynthia
A.P. Bio
TV • 2018
Didi
Cow and Chicken
TV • 1997
Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years
TV • 2021
Pearl Krabs (voice)
Will & Grace
TV • 1998
Jean
The Kids from Room 402
TV • 2000
Southland
TV • 2009
D.A. Deborah Janowitz
Loot
TV • 2022
Commentator
The Wild Thornberrys
TV • 1998
Elder's Daughter (voice)
The Patrick Star Show
TV • 2021
Princess Pearlina (voice)
The Patrick Star Show
TV • 2021
Pearl / Child (voice)
The Patrick Star Show
TV • 2021
Pearl / Ventriloquist Dummy / Audience / Soldiers (voice)
Castle
TV • 2009
Ms. Papen
SpongeBob As Told By
TV • 2020
Self
Bones
TV • 2005
Gina Carlson
Family Guy
TV • 1999
Diane Simmons / Girl (voice)
Family Guy
TV • 1999
Diane Simmons / Jolene (voice)
Family Guy
TV • 1999
Diane Simmons / Lady (voice)
The Rookie
TV • 2018
Gary’s Neighbor
Family Guy
TV • 1999
Diane Simmons / Eva Braun (voice)
Family Guy
TV • 1999
Diane Simmons / Coco (voice)
Family Guy
TV • 1999
Diane Simmons / Charles Lindbergh's Wife (voice)
Fantastic Four
TV • 1994
Sue Storm / Invisible Woman (voice)
Curb Your Enthusiasm
TV • 2000
Young Larry's Mom Rose
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
TV • 1996
Sabrina's Car (voice)
The Hard Times of RJ Berger
TV • 2010
Linda Robbins
We Baby Bears
TV • 2022
Goose (voice)
Hollywood Is Like High School with Money
TV • 2010
Iris Whitaker
Law & Order: LA
TV • 2010
Robbi Nathan
What a Cartoon!
TV • 1995
Cindy / Loudspeaker Voice (voice)
Hey Arnold!
TV • 1996
Rhonda's Mother (voice)
Hey Arnold!
TV • 1996
Secretary / Cop / Candy Lady (voice)
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
TV • 2007
Dixie (voice)
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
TV • 2007
Dixie / Nerd (voice)
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
TV • 2007
Ivory / Dixie (voice)
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
TV • 2007
Dixie / Mail Woman / Eunice (voice)
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
TV • 2007
Ivory / Nerds (voice)
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
TV • 2007
Ivory / Dr. Joy / Additional Voices (voice)
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
TV • 2007
Dixie / Ivory (voice)
Doc McStuffins
TV • 2012
Gloria Gorilla (voice)
Acting Dead
TV • 2016
Zombietologist
Stroker and Hoop
TV • 2004
Leslie / Henna St. Chloe-Butz / Co-Ed 1 (voice)
Lab Rats
TV • 2012
Edie
The League
TV • 2009
Mrs. Shtotelman
Grey's Anatomy
TV • 2005
Ellen Weaver
Mighty Med
TV • 2013
Ms. Gleason
Cory in the House
TV • 2007
Ms. Flowers
Dave's World
TV • 1993
The T.A.
Touched by an Angel
TV • 1994
Rachel Carson
Boston Common
TV • 1996
Liz
The Closer
TV • 2005
Kathy Weber
Good Morning, Miami
TV • 2002
Loretta
Colony
TV • 2016
Elaine
Nobody Wants This
TV • 2024
Deborah
Ned & Stacey
TV • 1995
Theresa
Shameless
TV • 2011
Stacy Baer
Workaholics
TV • 2011
Betsy Russ
SpongeBob SquarePants
TV • 1999
Lady Fish (voice)
SpongeBob SquarePants
TV • 1999
Pearl (voice)
Doc McStuffins
TV • 2012
Gloria (voice)
Stroker and Hoop
TV • 2004
Grandma / Woman / TV Reporter (voice)
Stroker and Hoop
TV • 2004
Porsche / Tour Guide / Sunshine (voice)
Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn
TV • 2014
Ms. Bing