Pamela Adlon filmography explained

Pamela Adlon has starred in many feature films, television shows, and video games. She is known for her performances in Lucky Louie (2006), Louie (2010–2015), and Better Things (2016–2022). She also has had major performances in The Facts of Life (1983–1984), Californication (2007–2014), and guest appearances in The Jeffersons (1984), Boston Legal (2007–2008), Parenthood (2012), and This Is Us (2020). She is also a well known voice artist. Her voice credits include the animated programs Bobby's World (1992–1998), Rugrats (1992–2004), Recess (1997–2001), King of the Hill (1997–2010), Phineas and Ferb (2010–2013), Bob's Burgers (2012–2020), and Milo Murphy's Law (2016–2019).

Live-action filmography

Film

List of acting performances in feature films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1982	Grease 2	Dolores Rebchuck
1984	Bad Manners	Girl Joey
1986	SpaceCamp	Girl in Launch Control Gallery	Uncredited
	Willy/Milly	Willy / Milly Niceman
1989	Say Anything...	Rebecca
	After Midnight	Cheryl	Segment: "Allison's Story"
1990		Liz
	The Adventures of Ford Fairlane	Pussycat
1996	Bed of Roses	Kim
	Sgt. Bilko	Sgt. Raquel Barbella
	Father Frost	Marphuska
	Two Guys Talkin' About Girls	Tracy	Direct-to-video
1997	Plump Fiction	Vallory Cox
	Eat Your Heart Out	Samantha	Directed by ^[1]
1998	Some Girl	Jenn
	Waiting for Woody	Lyza	Short film
2000	Dirk and Betty	Daisy
	Net Worth	Unknown
2005	Lucky 13	Brenda
2011	Conception	Tay
2013	9 Full Moons	Rachel Stevens
	I Know That Voice	Herself	Documentary
2014	Truckin	Perri Pinkston	Short film
2016	First Girl I Loved	Sharon
2017	I Love You, Daddy	Maggie
2018	All Square	Debbie
	Bumblebee	Sally Watson
2020	The King of Staten Island	Gina
	Holler^[2]	Rhonda
2024	Babes	N/A	Director

Television

List of acting performances in television shows

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1982	Little Darlings	Angel Bright	Television film
1983–1984	The Facts of Life	Kelly Affinado	12 episodes
1984	The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins	Tatyana	Television film
	Night Court	Andy / Stella	Episode: "Bull Gets a Kid"
	The Jeffersons	Stevie	Episode: "Try a Little Tenderness"
1984–1985	E/R	Jenny Sheinfeld	3 episodes
1986	The Redd Foxx Show	Toni Rutledge	7 episodes
	Pleasures	Claudia	Television film
	Disneyland	Jesse	Episode: "The Leftovers"
1988	The Bronx Zoo	Lisa	Episode: "Ties That Bind"
	ABC Afterschool Special	Jill	Episode: "A Family Again"
1989	Wiseguy	Tanya Medley	3 episodes
		Oji	Episode: "Who Watches the Watchers"
	21 Jump Street	Dori the Psychic	Episode: "Old Haunts in the New Age"
1991	Life Goes On	Ruth Beale	Episode: "Armageddon"
1992	Down the Shore	Miranda Halpern	13 episodes
	The Heights	Rosie	Episode: "Splendor in the Past"
1996	Murder One	Amy Scott	Episode: "Chapter Fourteen"
	Relativity	Marcy Sedaris	2 episodes
1997	Breast Men	Margaret	Television film
2003	Six Feet Under	Nathaniel / Isabel / Evil Nurse	Episode: "Everyone Leaves"
	The Making of King of the Hill	Herself	Television documentary
2005	Unscripted	Pam	4 episodes
2006	Lucky Louie	Kim	13 episodes; also writer
2007	The Wedding Bells	DeDe Stoller	2 episodes
2007–2008	Boston Legal	Attorney Emma Path	4 episodes
2007–2014	Californication	Marcy Runkle	80 episodes
2009	Monk	Sarah Longson	Episode: "Mr. Monk On Wheels"
	Ace in the Hole	Susanna Morella	Unsold pilot
2010	True Jackson, VP	Babs	Episode: "Little Buddies"
2010–2015	Louie	Pamela	14 episodes; also writer and producer
2011	Love Bites	Colleen Rouscher	2 episodes
2012	Parenthood	Marleise Deigan	2 episodes
2014	Rake	Glenn Shepard	2 episodes
2015	Playing House	Pam	Episode: "Celebrate Me Scones"
2016–2022	Better Things	Sam Fox	44 episodes; also creator, writer, director, executive producer
2019	Young Sheldon	Mrs. Wolowitz	Episode: "A Swedish Science Thing and the Equation for Toast"
2020	This Is Us	Dr. Leigh	4 episodes
2023	History of the World, Part II	Fanny Mudman	3 episodes

Voice-over filmography

Film

List of voice performances in feature and direct-to-video films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992		Fairy #2	^[3]
1997	Princess Mononoke	Additional voices	English dub
1998	Kiki's Delivery Service	Ket	English Disney dub
1999	O' Christmas Tree	Baby Bear	Direct-to-video
2000		Leila
Gen^13	Additional voices	Direct-to-video
2001		Ashley Spinelli
			Direct-to-video
	The Trumpet of the Swan	A.G. Skinner
2003	The Animatrix	Jue / Manabu
		Ashley Spinelli	Direct-to-video
	Brother Bear	Geese in flight formation
2004	Teacher's Pet	Trevor / Taylor / Tyler
2008	Tinker Bell	Vidia
2009	Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure		Uncredited
2010	Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue
		Female Turtle #1
2012	Secret of the Wings	Vidia
	Dino Time	Ernie Fitzpatrick	English dub
2014	The Pirate Fairy	Vidia
	Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast
2017	Best Fiends: Boot Camp^[4]	Hank	Short film
	Best Fiends: Visit Minutia^[5]
2018	Best Fiends: Fort of Hard Knocks^[6]	Bandit Slug	Short film
2019	Best Fiends: The Immortal Cockroach	Hank
	Trouble	Rousey
2023	Leo	Sandy

Television

List of voice performances in television shows

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Darkwing Duck	Heatwave	Episode: "The Frequency Fiends"
1992–98	Bobby's World	Derek Generic (season 7)	13 episodes
1992–04	Rugrats	Dean, young Drew Pickles, additional voices	7 episodes
1993	The Addams Family	Mortimer	Episode: "Sweetheart of a Brother"
1993–94	Problem Child	Additional voices	26 episodes
1994		Irene	Television special
	Edith Ann: Homeless Go Home
	Duckman	Unknown voice	Episode: "Ride the High School"
1994–96	Phantom 2040	Sparks	26 episodes
1995	Capitol Critters	Violet	Episode: "If Lovin' You Is Wrong, I Don't Wanna Be Rat"
1996–97	Jumanji	Rock	5 episodes
1996–98	Jungle Cubs	Baloo	21 episodes
	Adventures from the Book of Virtues	Zach Nichols / Boy	26 episodes
1996	Quack Pack	Dewey Duck	39 episodes
	Edith Ann's Christmas (Just Say Noël)	Irene / Tomas	Television special
1997	The New Batman Adventures	Mother	Episode: "Never Fear"
	The Blues Brothers Animated Series	Bobby G.	8 episodes
1997–98		Lucky	41 episodes
1997–00	Pepper Ann	Moose Pearson Additional voices	30 episodes
1997–01	Recess	Ashley Spinelli	127 episodes
1997–10	King of the Hill	Bobby Hill Clark Peters Additional voices	258 episodes
1998	Cow and Chicken	Cousin Sow	3 episodes
	Hercules	Brutus	Episode: "Hercules and the Kids"
	Oh Yeah! Cartoons	Otto	Episode: "Kameleon Kid"
1998–03	The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald	McNugget #1	6 episodes
1999	The Woody Woodpecker Show	Lester the Termite	3 episodes
	Todd McFarlane's Spawn	Judy	2 episodes
		Animal's Son, Female Soldier	Episode: "Future Shock"
	Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain	Andrew Loam	Episode: "Wag the Mouse"
1999–01	Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot	Rusty	26 episodes
1999–02	Rocket Power	Young Tito, Schoolgirl, Bawling Kid	5 episodes
2000	Teacher's Pet	Tyler / Tayler / Trevor	3 episodes
	The Wild Thornberrys	Tano	Episode: "Cheetahs Never Prosper"
2000–01	Zombie College	Zelda Cruz	12 episodes
2001	The Oblongs	Milo Oblong, Jared Klimer, The Debbies	13 episodes
	The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie	Saiful	Television film
2001–02	Dexter's Laboratory	Beau / Doo Dee / Kid	3 episodes
2001–03	Lloyd in Space	Zoit / Additional Voices	3 episodes
	Time Squad	Otto Osworth Additional voices	17 episodes
2002	Teamo Supremo	Scooter Lad, Timmy, Patty Perkin	2 episodes
	As Told by Ginger	Dustin	Episode: "April Fools"
2003–07	Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks	Hector MacBadger	46 episodes
2003	What's New, Scooby-Doo?	Chris / Eddie, Janey Miller, Bobby Blather	2 episodes
	Kid Notorious	Unknown voice	Episode: "The Nazi Party"
2003–04	All Grown Up!	Sean Butler	7 episodes
2005	Bratz	Roberta	Episode: "It's Not About Me Week"
	Rugrats Pre-School Daze	Lucas	4 episodes
2006	Danger Rangers	Martin	Episode: "Safe and Sound"
		Ashley Spinelli	Episode: "Lax: Experiment #285"
2006–07	Squirrel Boy	Andy Johnson, additional voices	18 episodes
2007	Shorty McShorts' Shorts	Unknown voice	Episode: "Troy Ride"
		Monica	Episode: "Game On"
2007–14	WordGirl	Eileen / Birthday Girl, additional voices	8 episodes
2008		Tattoo / Marni	Episode: "Wrong and Dance/Love and War"
2008–09	The Drinky Crow Show	Mademoiselle DeBoursay, Claire, additional voices	7 episodes
2010		Kevin's Mom	Episode: "Vendetta"
	Zevo-3	Angel	2 episodes
2010–13	Pound Puppies	Gwen / Taboo, additional voices	9 episodes
	Phineas and Ferb	Melanie, Blonde Girl, additional voices	8 episodes
2011	The Mighty B!	Murdock	Episode: "Gorillas in the Midst"
	Mongo Wrestling Alliance	Acid Alice Kleberkuh	8 episodes
	Pixie Hollow Games	Vidia	Television special
	The Problem Solverz	Sweetie Creamie, additional voices	Episode: "The Mayan Ice Cream Caper"
	Beavis and Butt-Head	Crystal / Sapphire, additional voices	3 episodes
	Unsupervised	One-Eyed Donnie	Episode: "Field of Dreams... and Dogs"
		Fang	Episode: "Challenge Day"
2012	ThunderCats	Pumyra	6 episodes
2012–20	Bob's Burgers	Olsen Benner, additional voices	16 episodes
2013	Out There	Joanie Novak (Chris' mom)	10 episodes
	Pixie Hollow Bake Off	Vidia	Television special
2013–17	Uncle Grandpa	Mary / Additional voices	4 episodes
2014	Chozen	Unknown voice	Episode: "Beef"
	Sofia the First	Rosey	Episode: "The Enchanted Feast"
2014–16	TripTank	Donnie / Wanda / Tina Additional voices	11 episodes
2015–19	Teen Titans Go!	Rose Wilson	4 episodes
2015	Stone Quackers	Binky / Mean Cop / Hawk	2 episodes
		Drab Lieutenant	Episode: "It's a Colorful Life"
	Guardians of the Galaxy	Ma Raccoon Sis Raccoon	Episode: "We Are Family"
2015–16	Adventure Time	Gunther	2 episodes
2016	Mr. Pickles	Mary	Episode: "Cops and Robbers"
	Sanjay and Craig	Chido	2 episodes
	The Loud House	Tabby	Episode: "Dance Dance Resolution/A Fair to Remember"
2016–19	Milo Murphy's Law	Brigette Murphy	24 episodes
	The Big Bang Theory	Halley Wolowitz	10 episodes
2017		Elan / Ymojin	Episode: "The Lost Crysals of Qalydon"
	Jeff & Some Aliens	Kiki / Alice Additional voices	Episode: "Jeff & Some Love Simulations"
2017–19	Star vs. the Forces of Evil	Various voices	6 episodes
2019	Costume Quest	Jackie Carver Additional voices	3 episodes
	Rick and Morty	Angie Flynt Vermigurber's Child	2 episodes^[7]
2019–21	Pete the Cat	Mrs. Toad / Grumpy's Mom	8 episodes
2020–21	Archer	Sandra	4 episodes
2021	Devil May Care	Regina	7 episodes
	Tuca & Bertie	Dr. Joanne	5 episodes
	Fairfax	Phyllis	4 episodes
	Big Mouth	Sonya	7 episodes
2021–2024	The Ghost and Molly McGee	Leah Stein-Torres	7 episodes
2022	Human Resources	Sonya	Recurring role
2022–present	Hamster & Gretel	Nordle Ampersand	5 episodes
2023	Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur	Rabbi Ryda	Episode: "Today, I Am a Woman"

Video games

List of voice performances in video games

Year	Title	Voice role	Notes
1996		Pajama Sam
1997	Fallout	Nicole
1998	Grim Fandango	Carla / Pugsy
		Pajama Sam
	Pajama Sam's Lost and Found
1998	Arthur's Math Carnival	Arthur Read
1999	Arthur's Thinking Games
2000	Arthur's Reading Games
		Pajama Sam
	Escape from Monkey Island	Dainty Lady Figurehead
	King of the Hill	Bobby Hill
2001	Pajama Sam's Games to Play on Any Day	Pajama Sam
2002	Run Like Hell	Jinx
2002	LeapFrog: Phonics Program Series	Leap
2003	LeapFrog: Fiesta in the House/Town
2003	Final Fantasy X-2	Shinra
2005	Chicken Little	Abby Mallard
2013		Madam
2015	Lego Dimensions	Rose Wilson	Uncredited
2022	Warped Kart Racers	Bobby Hill	Archival Recording

Notes and References

1. Web site: Eat Your Heart Out . tcm.com . 25 February 2022 . en.
2. Web site: Deburge. Peter. 'Holler' Review: Indie Director Returns to Her Ohio Hometown to Show Why Getting Out Was the Only Option. September 9, 2020. Variety. September 13, 2020.
3. Web site: Pamela Adlon (visual voices guide) . January 17, 2024 . Behind The Voice Actors. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.
4. Web site: Boot Camp – A Best Fiends Animation. May 25, 2017. YouTube.
5. Web site: Visit Minutia – A Best Fiends Animation. September 1, 2017. YouTube.
6. Web site: Fort of Hard Knocks – A Best Fiends Animation. July 19, 2018. YouTube.
7. Web site: Here's who every confirmed 'Rick and Morty' Season 4 guest star could play . Plante. Corey . November 17, 2019. Inverse.com. en. November 17, 2019.
8. Web site: Day by Day: Relocation. YouTube. May 21, 2020.