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name: "Paula Poundstone"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/paula-poundstone"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "29 December 1959"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 78
updated: "2026-09-16T21:15:21.451489+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Paula Poundstone

Actor. Born 29 December 1959 in Huntsville.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 29 December 1959, Huntsville
- **Active:** 2015–present

## Biography

Paula Poundstone is an American stand-up comedian and actress. Born on 29 December 1959 in Huntsville, Alabama, she began performing stand-up comedy at open-mike nights in Boston in the late 1970s.

She is known for voice roles including Forgetter Paula in the animated films *Inside Out* (2015) and *Inside Out 2* (2024), Paula Small in the series *Home Movies* (1999), and characters in *Hercules* (1998) and *Summer Camp Island* (2018). Poundstone has performed a series of HBO comedy specials and is a frequent panelist on the National Public Radio quiz show *Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, allmusic.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Inside Out 2* (2024), Fi1m 68, as Forgetter Paula (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/inside-out-2.md)
- *Inside Out* (2015), Fi1m 87, as Forgetter Paula (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/inside-out.md)

## Also known for

- *Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman* (1993), The Computer (voice)
- *Hercules* (1998), Armageddon Bow (voice)
- *Home Movies* (1999), Paula Small (voice)
- *Summer Camp Island* (2018), Paulette (voice)

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