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

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

Appearances as themselves (1)

• SpongeBob As Told By — Self