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Lori Alan

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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.

Notable films

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Toy Story 5

As Bonnie's Mom (voice)

WALL·E

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Hoppers

As Additional Voices (voice)

Toy Story 3

As Bonnie's Mom (voice)

Inside Out

As Additional Voices (voice)

Toy Story 4

As Bonnie's Mom (voice)

The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants

As Pearl (voice) (uncredited)

The Grinch

As Additional Voices (voice)

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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Pure-Hearted Heroes

Sixty years after Batman '66 taught us that heroism can be bright, sincere, and utterly without irony, this chain celebrates films whose protagonists believe, s...

7 films

Signals in the Ash

From a father's vigil to a robot's devotion, eight films trace the fragile threads that hold humanity together when the world falls quiet.

8 films

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