Career
She is best known for her various roles on the television series
Pehl was one of the writers on the MST3K series. From 1992 to 1996, Pehl played the role of "Magic Voice", a disembodied woman"s voice who would announce upcoming commercials at the beginning of the show. In 1996, she began playing the role of Pearl Forrester, the mother of Doctor Clayton Forrester (Trace Beaulieu), initially as a guest character and then as a recurring character on the departure of television"s Frank (played by Frank Conniff).
When Beaulieu left the series at the end of the seventh season, she took over as the head "mad" on the series.
Pehl also played a number of other small roles on the series, such as "January in the Pan", a woman"s head that had been removed from a body (inspired by the movie The Brain That Wouldn"t Die), and "White Trash Party Girl" from the MST3K episode 517 "Beginning of The End". In the Bonus Features of the Digital Video Disc release of Leech Woman, as part of the larger, special (tin container) release of the 25th Anniversary Edition (12/2013), Pehl is featured in an ongoing series, Life After MST3K.
Since the ending of the series, Pehl has had comedy segments on National Public Radio.
In 2007, she returned to MST3K-style riffing on bad movies, joining former castmate Mike Nelson"s RiffTrax for the film Glitter, and Bill Corbett for The X-Files movie, as well as becoming a cast member on Joel Hodgson"s, making her one of a select few MST3K alumni to be involved with both Mike and Joel"s successor projects. She has since starred in the science fiction computer game Darkstar: The Interactive Movie as both Captain Beth Ingram of the Starship Bridgebuilder and the voice of the computer Westwick Main.
On October 30, 2007, Joel Hodgson announced he was starting a new show with the same "riffing on bad movies" premise as MST3K called, together with former MST3K cast and crew members Pehl, Trace Beaulieu, J. Elvis Weinstein, and Frank Conniff.
She continued to tour with starting from November 2012 until the show"s indefinite hiatus in December 2013.
