Pamela Adlon | |
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Adlon at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con
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Born |
Pamela Fionna Segall July 9, 1966 New York City, New York, U.S. |
Residence |
Los Angeles, California, U.S Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S. |
Other names | Pamela Segall Pamela Segall Adlon Pamela S. Adlon |
Occupation | Actress, voice actress, screenwriter, producer |
Years active | 1982–present |
Spouse(s) | Felix O. Adlon (m. 1996; div. 2010) |
Children | 3 |
Pamela Fionna Adlon (née Segall; born July 9, 1966) is an American actress, voice actress, screenwriter, and producer. Adlon is known for voicing Bobby Hill on King of the Hill, for which she won an Emmy Award, and the title character from the Pajama Sam video games. She is also known for playing Dolores in Grease 2 and Ashley Spinelli on the animated series Recess, and for her appearances on Californication and Louie, on which she is also a consulting producer. As of 2016, Adlon stars in the FX comedy television series Better Things which she co-created with Louis C.K.
Adlon was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of TV comedy writer-producer (and author of comic books and science fiction pulp novels) Donald "Don" Maxwell Segall (1933–1994) and Marina L. Segall. Her father produced The Dave Garroway Show, which became AM New York, and then The Today Show. He was a page at NBC with Gil Cates. He wrote erotic fiction under various pseudonyms, including Troy Conway. Adlon's father was from Boston, Massachusetts, and her mother is English. Her mother converted to Judaism. Adlon said her parents met at the USO in Paris.