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Lori Alan

Lori Alan
Born Potomac, Maryland, United States
Residence Los Angeles, California
Occupation Actress, comedian, voice actress
Years active 1990–present
Website www.lorialan.com

Lori Alan is an award-winning American actress, comedian, and voice actress. She is very active with animal rescue and politics. Alan currently lives in Los Angeles.

Alan was born in Potomac, Maryland. She had a mixed-faith family with her mother a Southern Baptist and her father being Jewish. Both of her parents were performers and supported her choice to be an actress. She started acting at the age five making her television debut in a Shakey's Pizza commercial. Her theater 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.

Alan has spoken out against animal cruelty and has campaigned for the anti-dog meat charity World Protection for Dogs and Cats in the Meat Trade She is also on the board of Pickle Pants Rescue, an animal rescue organization in Los Angeles.

Alan is especially known for her vocal work which currently spans three decades. Her process of getting to the authentic personality of the character she is providing the voice for is to improvise and trust her own choices, something she learned at her first voice acting job.

Alan voices Pearl Krabs the Whale on SpongeBob SquarePants, Sue Richards (The Invisible Woman) on Marvel Comics' The Fantastic Four, newsreader-turned-murderer Diane Simmons on Family Guy, and The Boss in the Metal Gear series. Lori has done voices in feature films: Monsters University, Toy Story 3, Despicable Me 2, WALL·E and Inside Out. She has also voiced roles for Henry Hugglemonster, Cow and Chicken, Animaniacs, and Futurama. Her work as The Boss was praised as the "most amazing female character of gaming at the time" according to Rizwan Anwer. Her rendition of the The Boss was also rated as one of the top 25 "Greatest Acting Performances in Video Games" by Complex.


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