Mary Jo Catlett

Actor Sep 2 (age 87) Denver, Colorado, USA 1969–2025 (56 year career)

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Biography

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.

Known For

Film

SpongeBob SquarePants

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Film

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Film

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Film

Let's Be Cops

Old Lady

Film

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Film

Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Film

Bananas

Woman in Hotel Lobby Cheering Honeymoon (uncredited)

Film

Serial Mom

Rosemary Ackerman

Filmography

Acting (83)

Movies (41)

The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants

2025

as Mrs. Puff (voice) (uncredited)

6.7

Plankton: The Movie

2025

as Mrs. Puff (voice)

6.7

Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie

2024

as Mrs. Puff (voice)

6.0

SpongeBob Squarepants: Kreepaway Kamp

2024

as Mrs. Puff (voice)

7.0

Spongebob and Sandy’s Country Christmas

2024

as Mrs. Puff

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run

2020

as Mrs. Puff (voice)

7.4

SpongeBob’s Big Birthday Blowout

2019

as Mrs. Puff

SpongeBob LongPants

2016

as Mrs. Puff / Driving Student (voice)

4.8

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

as Mrs. Puff (voice)

Let's Be Cops

as Old Lady

Lucky Stiff

as Shoe Store Lady

Carol Channing: Larger Than Life

2012

as Self

7.8

Spongebob’s Runaway Roadtrip

as Mrs. Puff

Anderson's Cross

as Mrs. Elway

SpongeBob SquarePants: Spongebob's Last Stand

2010

as Mrs. Puff (voice)

7.0

How to Be a Serial Killer

as Mrs. Wilson

The Benchwarmers

as Mrs. Ellwood

Red Riding Hood

as Shopkeeper Woman

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

as Mrs. Puff (voice)

Beethoven's 5th

as Sweet Grandmother

Ablaze

as Nurse Winslow

Size 'Em Up

as Florence

All You Need

as Ruth

Legend of the Mummy

as Mrs. Grant

Trading Favors

as Mrs. Langley

Beauty and the Beast: A Concert on Ice

Serial Mom

as Rosemary Ackerman

Battling for Baby

as Mrs. Capello

The Mouse and the Motorcycle

1986

as Kindergarten Teacher

5.3

Gone Are the Dayes

1984

as Marge

8.0

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

as Rita

The Beach Girls

as Mrs. Brinker

O'Hara's Wife

as Gloria

Blood Beach

as Harriett Crabbe

Where the Ladies Go

as Frances

The Champ

as Josie

Semi-Tough

as Earlene

How to Break Up a Happy Divorce

1976

as Soprano

Bananas

1971

as Woman in Hotel Lobby Cheering Honeymoon (uncredited)

6.7

The Littlest Angel

1969

as The Scribe I

5.3

When the Moon Was Twice as Big

as Elsie

Television (42)

The Patrick Star Show

2021

as Mrs. Puff (voice)

5.8

Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years

2021

as Mrs. Puff (voice)

7.2

SpongeBob As Told By

2020

as Self

Toca Life Stories

2020

as Nari

Good Girls

as Dorothy

Great News

as Marie

Trial & Error

as Brianne

Bajillion Dollar Propertie$

as Ethel Simmons

The Odd Couple

as Elderly Woman

Instant Mom

as Mrs. Sharp

2 Broke Girls

as Elaine

Rizzoli & Isles

as Bunny

Shake It Up

as Elderly Woman

Modern Family

as Edith

Glee

as Mrs. Carlisle

American Dad!

as Guest #1 (voice)

Cold Case

as Betty Joe Henders (2009)

That's So Raven

as Mrs. Applebaum

Kim Possible

as Aunt June (voice)

The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy

2001

as Witch

8.1

SpongeBob SquarePants

1999

as Mrs. Puff (voice)

7.7

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

1997

as Mrs. Hanson (segment "The Motorcycle")

Extreme Ghostbusters

Quack Pack

as (voice)

Saved by the Bell: The New Class

1993

as Mrs. Bluntley

5.8

DuckTales

1987

as Cookie Blurf (voice)

ALF

as Mary Jo

Murder, She Wrote

as Mrs. Metcalf

Night Court

as Cynthia Dalbey

Gimme a Break!

Foul Play

as Stella Finkle

Semi-Tough

Out of the Blue

as Nurse

Fantasy Island

as Carlotta Smith

Diff'rent Strokes

as Pearl Gallagher

Diff'rent Strokes

as Pearl Gallagher

The McLean Stevenson Show

Starsky & Hutch

as Terrible Tessie

Kojak

as Verna

M*A*S*H

as Nurse Walsh

The Waltons

The Bob Newhart Show

as Mrs. Englehart