Acting

Mary Jo Catlett

Born 1938-09-02 · Denver, Colorado, USA

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.

Credits

Newest first

The Patrick Star Show: Week of Stars!
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2026
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
as Mrs. Puff (voice) (uncredited)
2025
Plankton: The Movie
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2025
SpongeBob and Sandy’s Country Christmas
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2024
SpongeBob SquarePants: Snow Yellow
as Puffy (voice)
2024
SpongeBob SquarePants: Kreepaway Kamp
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2024
Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2024
The Patrick Star Show
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2021
The Patrick Star Show
as Mrs. Puff (voice) / Puffy (voice)
2021
Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2021
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2020
SpongeBob As Told By
as Self
2020
Toca Life Stories
as Nari
2020
SpongeBob’s Big Birthday Blowout
as Mrs. Puff
2019
Good Girls
as Dorothy
2018
Great News
as Marie
2017
Trial & Error
as Brianne
2017
SpongeBob LongPants
as Mrs. Puff / Driving Student (voice)
2016
Bajillion Dollar Propertie$
as Ethel Simmons
2016
The Odd Couple
as Elderly Woman
2015
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2015
Lucky Stiff
as Shoe Store Lady
2014
Let's Be Cops
as Old Lady
2014
Instant Mom
as Mrs. Sharp
2013
Carol Channing: Larger Than Life
as Self
2012
SpongeBob’s Runaway Roadtrip
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2011
2 Broke Girls
as Elaine
2011
Shake It Up
as Elderly Woman
2010
Rizzoli & Isles
as Bunny
2010
Anderson's Cross
as Mrs. Elway
2010
SpongeBob SquarePants: Spongebob's Last Stand
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2010
Modern Family
as Edith
2009
How to Be a Serial Killer
as Mrs. Wilson
2009
Glee
as Mrs. Carlisle
2009
SpongeBob SquarePants: Pest of the West
as Polene Puff (voice)
2008
Red Riding Hood
as Shopkeeper Woman
2006
The Benchwarmers
as Mrs. Ellwood
2006
SpongeBob Squarepants - Absorbing Favorites
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2005
Spongebob Squarepants: Fear of a Krabby Patty
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2005
American Dad!
as Guest #1 (voice)
2005
SpongeBob SquarePants: Home Sweet Pineapple
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2005
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2004
SpongeBob SquarePants: Sponge for Hire
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2004
Desperate Housewives
as Debi Brown
2004
SpongeBob SquarePants: SpongeGuard on Duty
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2004
SpongeBob SquarePants: SpongeBob Goes Prehistoric
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2004
Beethoven's 5th
as Sweet Grandmother
2003
Cold Case
as Betty Joe Henders (2009)
2003
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Sponge Who Could Fly
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2003
That's So Raven
as Mrs. Applebaum
2003
Ablaze
as Nurse Winslow
2002
Kim Possible
as Aunt June (voice)
2002
Size 'Em Up
as Florence
2001
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
as Witch
2001
All You Need
as Ruth
2001
SpongeBob SquarePants
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
1999
Legend of the Mummy
as Mrs. Grant
1998
Extreme Ghostbusters
1997
Trading Favors
as Mrs. Langley
1997
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
as Mrs. Hanson (segment "The Motorcycle")
1997
Beauty and the Beast: A Concert on Ice
1996
Quack Pack
as The Claw's Mother (voice)
1996
Quack Pack
as Nosey Neigbors Leader (voice)
1996
Serial Mom
as Rosemary Ackerman
1994
Saved by the Bell: The New Class
as Mrs. Bluntley
1993
Battling for Baby
as Mrs. Capello
1992
Rugrats
as Doreen (voice)
1991
DuckTales
as Cookie Blurf (voice)
1987
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
as Kindergarten Teacher
1986
ALF
as Mary Jo
1986
Murder, She Wrote
as Mrs. Metcalf
1984
Gone Are the Dayes
as Marge
1984
Night Court
as Cynthia Dalbey
1984
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
as Rita
1982
The Beach Girls
as Mrs. Brinker
1982
O'Hara's Wife
as Gloria
1982
Gimme a Break!
1981
Foul Play
as Stella Finkle
1981
Blood Beach
as Harriett Crabbe
1980
Where the Ladies Go
as Frances
1980