Pamela Fionna Adlon is an American actress and voice actress.
She is most known for her voice work, in particular as the voice of Bobby Hill on King of the
Hill.
She is also known for playing Dolores in Grease 2 and her appearances on Californication and
Louie, where she is also a consulting producer.
Early life Adlon was born in New York City, the daughter
of TV comedy writer-producer and author of comic books and science fiction pulp novels,
Donald "Don" Maxwell Segall, and Marina L Segall.
Her father produced The Dave Garroway Show, which became AM New York, and then The Today
Show.
He was a page at NBC with Gil Cates.
He wrote under various pseudonyms including Troy Conway.
Her father is from Boston and her mother is English.
Adlon's mother converted to Judaism.
Adlon said they met at the USO in Paris.
As a child she lived in the Carnegie House building at 100 West 57th Street Adlon said
"I worked at Alice Underground when I was 16 or 17, which was a vintage clothing store
on Columbus Ave."
as well as a job handing out flyers for the New York Pops.
Adlon said that she and her family grew up bi-coastally, moving back and forth a lot
between Los Angeles and New York because her father was a journeyman writer and producer
for TV.
She started performing as a child when she was 9 years old.
Her father had a friend who had a radio studio so she would do voice over work there, and
while in Los Angeles did acting work, because Adlon said she "didn't really want to go to
school."
Adlon attended Sarah Lawrence College for a semester.
Career Adlon said voice-overs saved her career.
Successful as her child-actress years had been, she struggled to find parts in her 20s.
“I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on ‘The Facts
of Life’ to not being able to pay my rent,” she recalled.
“I was at the unemployment office all the time.
I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet.
And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.”
Adlon's best known role is playing Bobby Hill on the animated TV show King of the Hill,
for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance in 2002.
Though she is mostly known for voicing young boys, Adlon has voiced two girl characters:
Margaret "Moose" Pearson in Pepper Ann and Ashley Spinelli in Recess.
Notable live-action roles include Girl Joey in the 1984 teen comedy film Growing Pains,
Marcy Runkle on Showtime's Californication, Pamela on FX's Louie.
Adlon was nominated for an Annie Award for her role as Otto Osworth on Cartoon Network's
Time Squad.
In 2006-07, she played the voice of Andy in Cartoon Network's Squirrel Boy animated series,
and co-starred with Louis C.K.
as his wife in the short-lived HBO sitcom Lucky Louie.
She also stars as the friend of Louie in his FX single-camera show, Louie.
She is in episodes of seasons 1, 2 and 4.
Adlon voiced Pajama Sam in the video games Pajama Sam In: No Need to Hide When It's Dark
Outside, Pajama Sam 2: Thunder and Lightning Aren't So Frightening, Pajama Sam 3: You Are
What You Eat from Your Head to Your Feet, and Pajama Sam's Games to Play on Any Day.
On voicing Bobby Hill and other boys: "The thing about women playing boys is that we're
not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running
series.
I used to take over for a lot of boys whose voices would crack and change.
My voice is on the lower resonance scale, so I just naturally go into the boy mold."
Personal life In 1996, Adlon was married to Felix O. Adlon,
the son of German director Percy Adlon.
They divorced in 2010 and he currently lives in Germany.
They have three daughters.
Adlon has said she is a single-parent raising her daughters.
Adlon was originally credited as Pamela Segall, but since her marriage and divorce she's been
credited as either "Pamela Segall Adlon" or "Pamela S. Adlon".
On May 16, 2010, Adlon was on United Airlines Flight 27 en route from New York JFK to Los
Angeles "with 112 people aboard made an emergency landing at Dulles International Airport in
Virginia on Sunday night due to a cockpit fire."
Other actors on board were Mary-Kate Olsen and Justin Bartha.
Adlon splits her time, living on Upper West Side in New York City and Los Angeles, California.
Filmography Acting
Grease 2 as Dolores The Facts of Life
Bad Manners Night Court "Bull Get's A Kid" as Andy/Stella
Willy/Milly as Milly/Willy Wiseguy as Tanya Medley
Say Anything...
Star Trek: The Next Generation as Oji, a Mintakan female
21 Jump Street as Dori the Psychic The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
The Gate II: Trespassers as Liz Down the Shore as Miranda
Sgt.
Bilko as Sgt.
Raquel "Rocky" Barbella Bed of Roses as Kim
Waiting for Woody Lucky Louie as Kim
Californication Marcy Runkle Monk Episode "Mr. Monk On Wheels" as Sarah
Longson Love Bites as Colleen Rouscher
True Jackson, VP as Babs Louie as Pamela
Parenthood as Marlyse Voice work
Jungle Cubs as Baloo Bobby's World as Derek Generic
Recess as Ashley Spinelli Kiki's Delivery Service as Ket
Rugrats as Dean, Sticky, Wiseguy, Young Drew Pickles
FernGully: The Last Rainforest Pepper Ann as Moose Pearson, Sean, additional
voices King of the Hill Bobby Hill, Clark Peters,
Chane Wassonason Princess Mononoke as Rice Seller, Iron Town
Woman, additional voices Fallout
"Grim Fandango" 101 Dalmatians: The Series as Lucky
The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot as Rusty Vampire Hunter D:
Bloodlust as Leila Teacher's Pet
The Oblongs...
Time Squad Teamo Supremo
Jakers!
The Adventures of Piggley Winks Teacher's Pet
Bratz - Roberta Squirrel Boy
WordGirl Phineas and Ferb
El Tigre:The Adventures of Manny Rivera The Drinky Crow Show as Mademoiselle DeBoursay,
Claire, additional voices All Grown Up!
Tinker Bell as Vidia Pound Puppies
Eric Kaplan's Sketch World ThunderCats
The Problem Solverz as Sweetie Creamie, Danny Dino Time as Ernie
Out There as Joanie Novak, Henrietta Miller Uncle Grandpa as Mary
Jake and the Never Land Pirates as Vidia The Pirate Fairy as Vidia
References
External links Pamela Adlon at the Internet Movie Database
Pamela Adlon on Twitter