Lori Alan
Actor
- Born
- July 18, 1966 (age 60) · Potomac, Maryland, USA
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).
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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.
Known for
Inside Out
June 17, 2015
WALL·E
June 26, 2008
Toy Story 3
June 16, 2010
Despicable Me 2
June 26, 2013
Monsters University
June 19, 2013
Minions
June 17, 2015
Toy Story 4
June 19, 2019
Despicable Me 3
June 15, 2017
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
September 17, 2009
The Grinch
November 8, 2018
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
November 19, 2004
Toy Story 5
June 17, 2026
Acting61
- 2026Toy Story 5 as Bonnie's Mom (voice)
- 2026Hoppers as Additional Voices (voice)
- 2025The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants as Pearl (voice) (uncredited)
- 2025Catalogue of Noses as Debbie
- 2025Plankton: The Movie as Pearl / A Woman in Crowd (voice)
- 2024SpongeBob and Sandy’s Country Christmas as Pearl (voice)
- 2024SpongeBob SquarePants: Kreepaway Kamp as Pearl / Teen Girls (voice)
- 2023The Tidal Zone: SpongeBob Universe Special as Pearl
- 2022Minions & More Volume 1 as Marilyn (voice)