Mary Jo Catlett (born September 2, 1938) is an American film, stage and television actress. She is notable for her role as housekeeper Pearl Gallagher on the television sitcom seriesDiff'rent Strokes, and currently for her role as Mrs. Puff in Spongebob Squarepants, which she has held since the show's debut.

Filmography

• 2026Untitled The Patrick Star Show Mini-Series — Mrs. Puff (voice)
• 2025Plankton: The Movie — Mrs. Puff (voice)
• 2025The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants — Mrs. Puff (voice) (uncredited)
• 2024Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie — Mrs. Puff (voice)
• 2024SpongeBob SquarePants: Kreepaway Kamp — Mrs. Puff (voice)
• 2024SpongeBob SquarePants: Snow Yellow — Puffy (voice)
• 2024SpongeBob and Sandy’s Country Christmas — Mrs. Puff (voice)
• Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years — Mrs. Puff (voice)
• The Patrick Star Show — Mrs. Puff (voice), Mrs. Puff (voice) / Puffy (voice)
• 2020The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run — Mrs. Puff (voice)
• Toca Life Stories — Nari
• 2019SpongeBob’s Big Birthday Blowout — Mrs. Puff
• Good Girls — Dorothy
• Great News — Marie
• Trial & Error — Brianne
• Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ — Ethel Simmons
• 2016SpongeBob LongPants — Mrs. Puff / Driving Student (voice)
• The Odd Couple — Elderly Woman
• 2015The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water — Mrs. Puff (voice)
• 2014Let's Be Cops — Old Lady
• 2014Lucky Stiff — Shoe Store Lady
• Instant Mom — Mrs. Sharp
• 2 Broke Girls — Elaine
• 2011SpongeBob’s Runaway Roadtrip — Mrs. Puff (voice)
• 2010Anderson's Cross — Mrs. Elway
• Rizzoli & Isles — Bunny
• Shake It Up — Elderly Woman
• 2010SpongeBob SquarePants: Spongebob's Last Stand — Mrs. Puff (voice)
• Glee — Mrs. Carlisle
• 2009How to Be a Serial Killer — Mrs. Wilson
• Modern Family — Edith
• 2008SpongeBob SquarePants: Pest of the West — Polene Puff (voice)
• 2006Red Riding Hood — Shopkeeper Woman
• 2006The Benchwarmers — Mrs. Ellwood
• American Dad! — Guest #1 (voice)
• 2005SpongeBob SquarePants: Home Sweet Pineapple — Mrs. Puff (voice)
• 2005SpongeBob Squarepants - Absorbing Favorites — Mrs. Puff (voice)
• 2005Spongebob Squarepants: Fear of a Krabby Patty — Mrs. Puff (voice)
• Desperate Housewives — Debi Brown
• 2004SpongeBob SquarePants: Sponge for Hire — Mrs. Puff (voice)
• 2004SpongeBob SquarePants: SpongeBob Goes Prehistoric — Mrs. Puff (voice)
• 2004SpongeBob SquarePants: SpongeGuard on Duty — Mrs. Puff (voice)
• 2004The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie — Mrs. Puff (voice)
• 2003Beethoven's 5th — Sweet Grandmother
• Cold Case — Betty Joe Henders (2009)
• 2003SpongeBob SquarePants: The Sponge Who Could Fly — Mrs. Puff (voice)
• That's So Raven — Mrs. Applebaum
• 2002Ablaze — Nurse Winslow
• Kim Possible — Aunt June (voice)
• 2001All You Need — Ruth
• 2001Size 'Em Up — Florence
• The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy — Witch
• SpongeBob SquarePants — Mrs. Puff (voice)
• 1998Legend of the Mummy — Mrs. Grant
• Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction — Mrs. Hanson (segment "The Motorcycle")
• Extreme Ghostbusters
• 1997Trading Favors — Mrs. Langley
• 1996Beauty and the Beast: A Concert on Ice
• Quack Pack — The Claw's Mother (voice), Nosey Neigbors Leader (voice)
• 1994Serial Mom — Rosemary Ackerman
• Saved by the Bell: The New Class — Mrs. Bluntley
• 1992Battling for Baby — Mrs. Capello
• Rugrats — Doreen (voice)
• DuckTales — Cookie Blurf (voice)
• ALF — Mary Jo
• 1986The Mouse and the Motorcycle — Kindergarten Teacher
• 1984Gone Are the Dayes — Marge
• Murder, She Wrote — Mrs. Metcalf
• Night Court — Cynthia Dalbey
• 1982O'Hara's Wife — Gloria
• 1982The Beach Girls — Mrs. Brinker
• 1982The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas — Rita
• Foul Play — Stella Finkle
• Gimme a Break!
• 1980Blood Beach — Harriett Crabbe
• Semi-Tough — Big Barb
• 1980Where the Ladies Go — Frances
• Out of the Blue — Nurse
• 1979The Champ — Josie
• Diff'rent Strokes — Pearl Gallagher
• Fantasy Island — Carlotta Smith, Hooligan
• 1977Semi-Tough — Earlene
• 1976How to Break Up a Happy Divorce — Soprano
• The McLean Stevenson Show
• Starsky & Hutch — Terrible Tessie
• Kojak — Verna
• M*A*S*H — Nurse Walsh
• The Bob Newhart Show — Mrs. Englehart
• The Waltons
• 1971Bananas — Woman in Hotel Lobby Cheering Honeymoon (uncredited)
• 1969The Littlest Angel — The Scribe I
• When the Moon Was Twice as Big — Elsie

Appearances as themselves (2)

• SpongeBob As Told By — Self
• 2012Carol Channing: Larger Than Life — Self