Pamela Adlon is known for voicing Bobby Hill in the animated comedy series King of the Hill, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award.
31 Facts About Pamela Adlon
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Pamela Adlon voiced Baloo in Jungle Cubs, the title role in the Pajama Sam video game series, Lucky in 101 Dalmatians: The Series, Ashley Spinelli in Recess, Otto Osworth in Time Squad, and Brigette Murphy in Milo Murphy's Law, among numerous others.
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From 2016 to 2022, Pamela Adlon starred as Sam Fox on the acclaimed FX comedy-drama series Better Things, which she co-created, wrote, produced, and directed.
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Pamela Adlon was featured in numerous films since making her acting debut in Grease 2.
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Pamela Adlon is the daughter of Marina Lucy and Donald Maxwell "Don" Segall, who was a television comedy writer-producer and author of comic books and science fiction pulp novels.
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Pamela Adlon's father produced The Dave Garroway Show, which became AM New York and then The Today Show.
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Pamela Adlon was a page at NBC with Gil Cates and wrote erotic fiction under various pseudonyms, including Troy Conway.
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Pamela Adlon's mother is English, while her father, an American, was from Boston.
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Pamela Adlon's father was born to a Jewish family of Russian-Jewish and Ukrainian-Jewish descent and her mother, originally an Anglican, converted to Judaism.
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Pamela Adlon has said that her parents met at the USO event in Paris.
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Pamela Adlon has said that she and her family lived bi-coastally, moving between Los Angeles and New York because her father was a journeyman writer and producer for TV.
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Pamela Adlon began performing at age nine; one of her father's friends had a radio studio, so she would do voice-over work there.
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Pamela Adlon made her acting debut as Dolores Rebchuck in the 1982 musical sequel film Grease 2.
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Pamela Adlon had a recurring role as Kelly Affinado in the sitcom The Facts of Life.
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Pamela Adlon gained further acclaim and recognition for voicing the starring role of Bobby Hill in the animated comedy series King of the Hill, for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance in 2002.
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Pamela Adlon gained recognition for voicing Margaret "Moose" Pearson in Pepper Ann, Ashley Spinelli in Recess, Brigette Murphy in Milo Murphy's Law, and the voice of newborn Halley Wolowitz in The Big Bang Theory.
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Pamela Adlon is recognizable for her husky voice, which led to her voicing young boys in numerous animated series and films.
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Pamela Adlon was nominated for an Annie Award for her role as Otto Osworth in the Cartoon Network animated comedy series Time Squad.
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Pamela Adlon continued to voice characters in films, such as The Animatrix and as Vidia in the Tinker Bell film series.
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Pamela Adlon was a writer and consulting producer for the lattermost series.
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Pamela Adlon co-wrote seven episodes of the series and became a consulting producer.
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Pamela Adlon earned a total of four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for her work on Louie.
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Pamela Adlon earned two nominations as a producer for Best Comedy Series, one nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for co-writing the episode "Daddy's Girlfriend Part 1", and one nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.
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Pamela Adlon received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the first two seasons of Better Things.
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Pamela Adlon had recent live-action roles in the romantic drama film First Girl I Loved, the science fiction action film Bumblebee, and the comedy-drama film The King of Staten Island.
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Pamela Adlon had a guest role as Mrs Wolowitz in the CBS sitcom Young Sheldon and a recurring role as Dr Leigh in the acclaimed NBC drama series This Is Us.
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Felix O Adlon directed Pamela in Eat Your Heart Out.
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Pamela Adlon was in a short-lived relationship with Toto vocalist Joseph Williams in the 1980s.
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In January 2020, Pamela Adlon became a citizen of the United Kingdom.
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Pamela Adlon has had major performances in The Facts of Life and Californication as well as making guest appearances in The Jeffersons, Boston Legal, Parenthood, and This is Us.