<Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 1990--present </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.lorialan.com </Td> </Tr> <P> Lori Alan is an American actress, comedian, and voice actress . She has played a long - running role as Pearl Krabs on the animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants . She also voiced Diane Simmons on Family Guy, the Invisible Woman on The Fantastic Four, and The Boss in the Metal Gear video game series . Alan is active with animal rescue and politics, and she currently lives in Los Angeles . </P> <P> Alan was born in Potomac, Maryland . She had a mixed - faith family: her mother is a Southern Baptist and her father is 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 . </P>

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