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
Complete Filmography
Plankton: The Movie
2025
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
Plankton's tangled love story with his sentient computer wife goes sideways when she takes a stand — and decides to destroy the world without him.
Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie
2024
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
When Bikini Bottom is scooped from the ocean, scientific squirrel Sandy Cheeks and her pal SpongeBob SquarePants saddle up for Texas to save their tow...
SpongeBob Squarepants: Kreepaway Kamp
2024
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
While at Kamp Koral for a reunion, SpongeBob and the gang are stalked by a mysterious figure lurking in the shadows as campers start disappearing one ...
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
2020
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
When his best friend Gary is suddenly snatched away, SpongeBob takes Patrick on a madcap mission far beyond Bikini Bottom to save their pink-shelled p...
SpongeBob LongPants
2016
as Mrs. Puff / Driving Student (voice)
SpongeBob's personality changes when he starts wearing long pants.
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
2015
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
Burger Beard is a pirate who is in search of the final page of a magical book that makes any evil plan he writes in it come true, which happens to be ...
Lucky Stiff
2014
as Shoe Store Lady
An English shoe salesman inherits 6 million dollars from a recently deceased uncle he has never met before, on the condition that he takes the uncle's...
Let's Be Cops
2014
as Old Lady
Best pals Ryan and Justin are stalled in their respective careers -- a fact that is painfully driven home when they go to a college reunion. Dressed a...
Carol Channing: Larger Than Life
2012
as Self
If Carol Channing didn't exist, no one could have made her up. One in a billion, Carol , at 89, remains an unstoppable, megawatt dynamo. Broadway diva...
Spongebob’s Runaway Roadtrip
2011
as Mrs. Puff
Join Spongebob and Patrick on a trip to the Great Barrier Reef, Plankton and Karen on a romantic cruise, Mr. Krabs and Pearl on a trip to the Ocean Mi...
SpongeBob SquarePants: Spongebob's Last Stand
2010
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
In the never-before seen special episode, "SpongeBob's Last Stand", all chaos breaks loose in Bikini Bottom when SpongeBob and Patrick hear that a new...
How to Be a Serial Killer
2009
as Mrs. Wilson
HOW TO BE A SERIAL KILLER is the story of Mike Wilson, a charismatic, educated, and articulate young man who has found his life's purpose in extermina...
Red Riding Hood
2006
as Shopkeeper Woman
Teenage Claire would rather hang out with her friends at the mall than to stay home with her brother Matt while Grandma babysits. Who wouldn't? Unfort...
The Benchwarmers
2006
as Mrs. Ellwood
A trio of guys try and make up for missed opportunities in childhood by forming a three-player baseball team to compete against standard little league...
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
2004
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
There's trouble brewing in Bikini Bottom. Someone has stolen King Neptune's crown, and it looks like Mr. Krab, SpongeBob's boss, is the culprit. Thoug...
Beethoven's 5th
2003
as Sweet Grandmother
When Sara takes Beethoven to spend summer vacation with wacky Uncle Freddie in an old mining town, the mischievous canine "digs up" the missing clue t...
Ablaze
2002
as Nurse Winslow
The owner of a gigantic oil refinery decides to burn the place down for insurance purposes, only to create a giant fireball that endangers the lives o...
Size 'Em Up
2001
as Florence
Athletic teenager Samantha finds her developing figure becoming a problem. Her mother convinces her to talk to the clothing store "bra ladies" to try ...
All You Need
2001
as Ruth
When her parents announce their divorce, Beth begins to uncover the hidden truths behind all of the rest of her families lives. Seeing that so many pe...
Legend of the Mummy
1998
as Mrs. Grant
Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Karn, and Amy Locane star in this supernatural horror tale about a mummy with a heart that bears a power beyond that of our...
Trading Favors
1997
as Mrs. Langley
A seductive woman with a violent lover steals a car and entices a teenage boy to join her on a crime spree.
Beauty and the Beast: A Concert on Ice
1996
A retelling of the Disney film, Beauty and the Beast (1991), on ice. This also included live singers from the Broadway stage show, and clips of the an...
Serial Mom
1994
as Rosemary Ackerman
Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascinatio...
Battling for Baby
1992
as Mrs. Capello
Two childhood friends who have since become fierce rivals are forced to make nice when their children marry. But the feud reignites when a bundle of j...
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
1986
as Kindergarten Teacher
It looks like young Keith Gridley will have a lonely summer, until he meets a talking mouse named Ralph. Ralph takes an immediate liking to Keith's to...
Gone Are the Dayes
1984
as Marge
After the Days family witnesses a gang shooting in a Japanese restaurant, the police persuades them to testify against mobster Delgado. Detective Mitc...
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
1982
as Rita
When a big TV crusader Melvin P. Thorpe threatens to expose the Chicken Ranch to public scandal and close it down, Miss Mona doesn't go down without a...
The Beach Girls
1982
as Mrs. Brinker
School is out, and three girls head to the beach for vacation. Two of the girls are world-wise party-goers who attempt to loosen up their naive, virgi...
O'Hara's Wife
1982
as Gloria
Workaholic attorney Bob O'Hara is devastated when his wife dies suddenly. However, she returns to haunt him in order to persuade him to slow down, wat...
Blood Beach
1980
as Harriett Crabbe
Something or someone is attacking people one by one on the beach. Some of them are mutilated, but most of them are sucked into the sand, disappearing ...
Where the Ladies Go
1980
as Frances
A small-town bar, open only from 9AM to 3PM and owned by Buck (Earl Holliman), is the setting where bored housewives and wandering husbands go to find...
The Champ
1979
as Josie
Billy used to be a great boxer, but he's settled into a hardscrabble life that revolves around drinking, training horses, and the one bright spot in h...
Semi-Tough
1977
as Earlene
A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become ro...
How to Break Up a Happy Divorce
1976
as Soprano
A divorced woman comes up with a scheme to make her ex-husband jealous, so she can get him back.
Bananas
1971
as Woman in Hotel Lobby Cheering Honeymoon (uncredited)
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebelli...
The Littlest Angel
1969
as The Scribe I
Adapted from the book by Charles Tazewell. Michael, a shepherd boy living in Biblical times, finds himself transported to Heaven on his eighth birthda...
When the Moon Was Twice as Big
N/A
as Elsie
In 1969, ten-year-old Jack is inspired by a unique friend to follow his heart and become an astronomer. But fate alters his course. In 2009 and about ...