Mary Jo Catlett

Mary Jo Catlett (born September 2, 1938) is an American film, stage and television actress. She is notable for her role as housekeeper Pearl Gallagher on the television sitcom seriesDiff'rent Strokes, and currently for her role as Mrs. Puff in Spongebob Squarepants, which she has held since the show's debut.

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Known For

American Dad!

2005 • as Guest #1 (voice)

MAS*H

1972 • as Nurse Walsh

Modern Family

2009 • as Edith

The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy

2001 • as Witch

Plankton: The Movie

2025 • as Mrs. Puff (voice)

2 Broke Girls

2011 • as Elaine

Filmography

2025

Plankton: The Movie

as Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie - Released: 3/8/2025

2024

Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie

as Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie - Released: 10/18/2024

SpongeBob Squarepants: Kreepaway Kamp

as Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie - Released: 10/10/2024

2021

Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years

as Mrs. Puff (voice)

TV - Released: 3/4/2021

The Patrick Star Show

as Mrs. Puff (voice)

TV - Released: 7/9/2021

2020

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run

as Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie - Released: 8/14/2020

SpongeBob As Told By

as Self

TV - Released: 5/14/2020

2018

Good Girls

as Dorothy

TV - Released: 2/26/2018

2017

Great News

as Marie

TV - Released: 4/25/2017

Trial & Error

as Brianne

TV - Released: 3/14/2017

2016

Bajillion Dollar Propertie$

as Ethel Simmons

TV - Released: 2/21/2016

2015

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

as Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie - Released: 1/28/2015

The Odd Couple

as Elderly Woman

TV - Released: 2/19/2015

2014

Lucky Stiff

as Shoe Store Lady

Movie - Released: 10/8/2014

Let's Be Cops

as Old Lady

Movie - Released: 8/13/2014

2012

Carol Channing: Larger Than Life

as Self

Movie - Released: 1/20/2012

2011

Spongebob’s Runaway Roadtrip

as Mrs. Puff

Movie - Released: 9/20/2011

2 Broke Girls

as Elaine

TV - Released: 9/19/2011

2010

SpongeBob SquarePants: Spongebob's Last Stand

as Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie - Released: 3/16/2010

Rizzoli & Isles

as Bunny

TV - Released: 7/12/2010

Shake It Up

as Elderly Woman

TV - Released: 11/7/2010

2009

How to Be a Serial Killer

as Mrs. Wilson

Movie - Released: 7/24/2009

Modern Family

as Edith

TV - Released: 9/23/2009

Glee

as Mrs. Carlisle

TV - Released: 5/19/2009

2006

Red Riding Hood

as Shopkeeper Woman

Movie - Released: 6/27/2006

The Benchwarmers

as Mrs. Ellwood

Movie - Released: 4/7/2006

2005

American Dad!

as Guest #1 (voice)

TV - Released: 2/6/2005

2004

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

as Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie - Released: 11/19/2004

2003

Beethoven's 5th

as Sweet Grandmother

Movie - Released: 12/2/2003

Cold Case

as Betty Joe Henders (2009)

TV - Released: 9/28/2003

That's So Raven

as Mrs. Applebaum

TV - Released: 1/17/2003

2002

Ablaze

as Nurse Winslow

Movie - Released: 7/16/2002

Kim Possible

as Aunt June (voice)

TV - Released: 6/7/2002

2001

All You Need

as Ruth

Movie - Released: 3/4/2001

The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy

as Witch

TV - Released: 8/24/2001

1999

SpongeBob SquarePants

as Mrs. Puff (voice)

TV - Released: 5/1/1999

1998

Legend of the Mummy

as Mrs. Grant

Movie - Released: 3/30/1998

1997

Trading Favors

as Mrs. Langley

Movie - Released: 6/4/1997

Extreme Ghostbusters

TV - Released: 9/1/1997

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

as Mrs. Hanson (segment "The Motorcycle")

TV - Released: 5/25/1997

1996

Beauty and the Beast: A Concert on Ice

Movie - Released: 12/6/1996

1994

Serial Mom

as Rosemary Ackerman

Movie - Released: 4/13/1994

1993

Saved by the Bell: The New Class

as Mrs. Bluntley

TV - Released: 9/11/1993

1992

Battling for Baby

as Mrs. Capello

Movie - Released: 1/12/1992

1986

The Mouse and the Motorcycle

as Kindergarten Teacher

Movie - Released: 11/7/1986

ALF

as Mary Jo

TV - Released: 9/22/1986

1984

Gone Are the Dayes

as Marge

Movie - Released: 5/6/1984

Night Court

as Cynthia Dalbey

TV - Released: 1/4/1984

Murder, She Wrote

as Mrs. Metcalf

TV - Released: 9/30/1984

1982

O'Hara's Wife

as Gloria

Movie - Released: 1/1/1982

The Beach Girls

as Mrs. Brinker

Movie - Released: 3/26/1982

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

as Rita

Movie - Released: 7/23/1982

1981

Gimme a Break!

TV - Released: 10/29/1981

Foul Play

as Stella Finkle

TV - Released: 1/26/1981

1980

Where the Ladies Go

as Frances

Movie - Released: 3/14/1980

Blood Beach

as Harriett Crabbe

Movie - Released: 9/1/1980

Semi-Tough

TV - Released: 5/29/1980

1979

The Champ

as Josie

Movie - Released: 7/7/1979

Out of the Blue

as Nurse

TV - Released: 9/9/1979

1978

Diff'rent Strokes

as Pearl Gallagher

TV - Released: 11/3/1978

Fantasy Island

as Carlotta Smith

TV - Released: 1/28/1978

1977

Semi-Tough

as Earlene

Movie - Released: 11/18/1977

1976

How to Break Up a Happy Divorce

as Soprano

Movie - Released: 10/6/1976

The McLean Stevenson Show

TV - Released: 12/1/1976

1975

Starsky & Hutch

TV - Released: 9/10/1975

Starsky & Hutch

as Terrible Tessie

TV - Released: 9/10/1975

1973

Kojak

as Verna

TV - Released: 10/24/1973

1972

M*A*S*H

as Nurse Walsh

TV - Released: 9/17/1972

The Waltons

TV - Released: 9/14/1972

The Bob Newhart Show

as Mrs. Englehart

TV - Released: 9/16/1972

1971

Bananas

as Woman in Hotel Lobby Cheering Honeymoon (uncredited)

Movie - Released: 4/28/1971

1969

The Littlest Angel

as The Scribe I

Movie - Released: 12/6/1969

Unknown

Movie

When the Moon Was Twice as Big

as Elsie

Movie