Person
Mary Jo Catlett
Born 2 September 1938 87 years old Denver, Colorado, USA Who else is 87? → TMDB ↗
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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The numbers
31age in their first credit on record (1969)
56years on screen and counting
4credits in 2024, their busiest year
85dated credits on record
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Movie credits
When the Moon Was Twice as Big
as Elsie
Age: 87 The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
2025as Mrs. Puff (voice) (uncredited)
Age: 86 Plankton: The Movie
2025as Mrs. Puff (voice)
Age: 86 Spongebob and Sandy’s Country Christmas
2024as Mrs. Puff (voice)
Age: 86 SpongeBob SquarePants: Snow Yellow
2024as Puffy (voice)
Age: 86 SpongeBob Squarepants: Kreepaway Kamp
2024as Mrs. Puff (voice)
Age: 86 Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie
2024as Mrs. Puff (voice)
Age: 81 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
2020as Mrs. Puff (voice)
Age: 80 SpongeBob’s Big Birthday Blowout
2019as Mrs. Puff
Age: 78 SpongeBob LongPants
2016as Mrs. Puff / Driving Student (voice)
Age: 76 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
2015as Mrs. Puff (voice)
Age: 76 Lucky Stiff
2014as Shoe Store Lady
Age: 75 Let's Be Cops
2014as Old Lady
Age: 73 Spongebob’s Runaway Roadtrip
2011as Mrs. Puff
Age: 71 Anderson's Cross
2010as Mrs. Elway
Age: 71 SpongeBob SquarePants: Spongebob's Last Stand
2010as Mrs. Puff (voice)
Age: 70 How to Be a Serial Killer
2009as Mrs. Wilson
Age: 69 SpongeBob SquarePants: Pest of the West
2008as Polene Puff (voice)
Age: 67 Red Riding Hood
2006as Shopkeeper Woman
Age: 67 The Benchwarmers
2006as Mrs. Ellwood
Age: 66 The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
2004as Mrs. Puff (voice)
Age: 65 Beethoven's 5th
2003as Sweet Grandmother
Age: 64 SpongeBob SquarePants: The Sponge Who Could Fly
2003as Mrs. Puff (voice)
Age: 63 Ablaze
2002as Nurse Winslow
Age: 63 Size 'Em Up
2001as Florence
Age: 62 All You Need
2001as Ruth
Age: 59 Legend of the Mummy
1998as Mrs. Grant
Age: 58 Trading Favors
1997as Mrs. Langley
Age: 58 Beauty and the Beast: A Concert on Ice
1996
Age: 55 Serial Mom
1994as Rosemary Ackerman
Age: 53 Battling for Baby
1992as Mrs. Capello
Age: 48 The Mouse and the Motorcycle
1986as Kindergarten Teacher
Age: 45 Gone Are the Dayes
1984as Marge
Age: 43 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
1982as Rita
Age: 43 The Beach Girls
1982as Mrs. Brinker
Age: 43 O'Hara's Wife
1982as Gloria
Age: 41 Blood Beach
1980as Harriett Crabbe
Age: 41 Where the Ladies Go
1980as Frances
Age: 40 The Champ
1979as Josie
Age: 39 Semi-Tough
1977as Earlene
Age: 38 How to Break Up a Happy Divorce
1976as Soprano
Age: 32 Bananas
1971as Woman in Hotel Lobby Cheering Honeymoon (uncredited)
Age: 31 The Littlest Angel
1969as The Scribe I
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TV credits
Age: 82 The Patrick Star Show
2021as Mrs. Puff (voice)
Age: 82 The Patrick Star Show
2021as Mrs. Puff (voice) / Puffy (voice)
Age: 82 Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years
2021as Mrs. Puff (voice)
Age: 81 Toca Life Stories
2020as Nari
Age: 79 Good Girls
2018as Dorothy
Age: 78 Great News
2017as Marie
Age: 78 Trial & Error
2017as Brianne
Age: 77 Bajillion Dollar Propertie$
2016as Ethel Simmons
Age: 76 The Odd Couple
2015as Elderly Woman
Age: 75 Instant Mom
2013as Mrs. Sharp
Age: 73 2 Broke Girls
2011as Elaine
Age: 72 Shake It Up
2010as Elderly Woman
Age: 71 Rizzoli & Isles
2010as Bunny
Age: 71 Modern Family
2009as Edith
Age: 70 Glee
2009as Mrs. Carlisle
Age: 66 American Dad!
2005as Guest #1 (voice)
Age: 65 Cold Case
2003as Betty Joe Henders (2009)
Age: 64 That's So Raven
2003as Mrs. Applebaum
Age: 63 Kim Possible
2002as Aunt June (voice)
Age: 62 The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
2001as Witch
Age: 60 SpongeBob SquarePants
1999as Mrs. Puff (voice)
Age: 58 Extreme Ghostbusters
1997
Age: 58 Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
1997as Mrs. Hanson (segment "The Motorcycle")
Age: 58 Quack Pack
1996as (voice)
Age: 55 Saved by the Bell: The New Class
1993as Mrs. Bluntley
Age: 49 DuckTales
1987as Cookie Blurf (voice)
Age: 48 ALF
1986as Mary Jo
Age: 46 Murder, She Wrote
1984as Mrs. Metcalf
Age: 45 Night Court
1984as Cynthia Dalbey
Age: 43 Gimme a Break!
1981
Age: 42 Foul Play
1981as Stella Finkle
No poster
Age: 41 Semi-Tough
1980
Age: 41 Out of the Blue
1979as Nurse
Age: 40 Diff'rent Strokes
1978as Pearl Gallagher
Age: 39 Fantasy Island
1978as Carlotta Smith
Age: 39 Fantasy Island
1978as Hooligan
No poster
Age: 38 The McLean Stevenson Show
1976
Age: 37 Starsky & Hutch
1975 Age: 37 Starsky & Hutch
1975as Terrible Tessie
Age: 35 Kojak
1973as Verna
Age: 34 M*A*S*H
1972as Nurse Walsh
Age: 34 The Bob Newhart Show
1972as Mrs. Englehart
Age: 34