Background
Alan was born in Potomac, Maryland. She had a mixed-faith family with her mother a Southern Baptist and her father being Jewish.
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Alan was born in Potomac, Maryland. She had a mixed-faith family with her mother a Southern Baptist and her father being Jewish.
A longtime member of New York"s Gotham City Improv (Groundlings East), she went on to Emerson College and graduated with honors from Tisch School of the Arts.
She is very active with animal rescue and politics. Alan currently lives in Los Los Angeles Alan is especially known for her vocal work which currently spans three decades.
Her process of getting to the authentic personality of the character she is providing the voice for is to improvise and trust her own choices, something she learned at her first voice acting job.
Alan voices Pearl Krabs the Whale on SpongeBob SquarePants, Sue Richards (The Invisible Woman) on Marvel Comics" The Fantastic Four, Diane Simmons on Family Guy, and The Boss in the Metal Gear series. Lori has done voices in feature films: Monsters University, Toy Story 3, Despicable Maine 2, WALL·East and Inside Out.
She has also voiced roles for Henry Hugglemonster, Cow and Chicken, Animaniacs, and Futurama. Her work as The Boss was praised as the "most amazing female character of gaming at the time" according to Rizwan Anwer.
Her rendition of the The Boss was also rated as one of the top 25 "Greatest Acting Performances in " by Complex.
In 2005, she joined Warren Beatty, Rob Reiner, Kurtwood Smith and Jason George to help voice commercials against proposals made by California governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Alan"s on-camera roles include Desperate Housewives, Ray Donovan, Comedy Central"s Workaholics, Bones, Southland, Computer Society of India, 90210, Law & Order: Los Angeles, Law & Order and many more. On stage credits include The Pee-wee Herman Show, solo show Lori Alan: The Musical, Queen Celia in the hit musical Sneaux!, and the award-winning musical Reefer Madness.
Her 1999 performance in Reefer Madness as a "reefer slut" was praised by the Los Angeles Times.
She revisted her role in the Reefer Madness tenth Anniversary Cast in 2015. Her vocals on the song, "The Stuff" was considered both sultry and comical by Broadway World.