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Played by: Madeleine Martin

Occupation: Middle School student

Signature look: Gothic/punk. Long dark hair with straight bangs, black eyeliner, and dark clothes.

Personality: Quiet, intelligent and insightful. She inherited her father’s truthfulness and kindness and both of her parents love of music.

Becca’s backstory: Becca was born in New York City, but moved to Los Angeles, California around age nine or ten. Shortly after, her parents split up and she went to live with her mother and her mother’s new boyfriend, Bill Gross, and his daughter, Mia.

VIRTUES AND VICES

Moral values: Kindness and helping out those in need

Vices(s): Occasionally cursing

Regret(s): Her mom and dad breaking up.

Personal Goal(s): Becoming a kick ass rockstar.

Original air date: 8/27/2007

Directed by: Scott Winant

Written by: Tom Kapinos

Guest Star(s): Rachel Miner (Dani, Charlie’s Assistant), Amy Price-Francis (Meredith), Damian Young (William “Bill” Lewis), Kathy Christopherson (Nikki Mandel), Robert Merrill (Jonathan Mandel), Chris Williams (Todd Carr)

Sountracks:
* She Died, “I’m Ten Feet Tall”
* Josh Blake, “Pain & My Misery”
* Creosote, “The Ballad of Whiskey and Tears”
* Betty Davis, “Walkin’ Up the Road”
* Dawn Landes, “Toy Piano”

Synopsis: Hank and Todd Carr, the director of “A Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, the movie adaptation of Hank’s book, start a fight, after which Hank ends up in jail. Bill bails him out and Hank finds a new connection to Meredith. Charlie learns about a different side of his assistant Dani.

Original air date: 8/20/2007

Directed by: Scott Winant

Written by: Tom Kapinos

Guest Star(s): Damian Young (Will “Bill” Lewis), Rachel Miner (Dani, Charlie’s Assistant), Pamela Adlon (Marcy), Paula Marshall (Sonja)

Sountracks:
* Robbers on High Street, “Japanese Girls”
* The Doors, “L.A. Woman” (Paul Oakenfold Re-mix)
* Kenneth James Gibson, “Sarcastically Yours”
* Tommy Stinson, “Light of Day”

Synopsis: Becca invites Hank to her Mom and Bill’s house for a dinner party with some mutual friends. After he arrives, however, he realizes that Karen has planned a little setup for Hank with her scientologist friend Sonja, which doesn’t thrill Hank all that much. But, Hank gets a nice laugh out of it after the rest of the party people walk in on him and Sonja in the bedroom. Hank also gets a little news about the job he recently accepted.

See short scene of Hell-A Woman below

Original air date: 8/13/2007

Directed by: Stephen Hopkins

Written by: Tom Kapinos

Guest Star(s): Amy Price-Francis (Meredith), Pamela Adlon (Marcy), Michelle Nordin (Nun/Heather), Camille Langfield (Sandy)

Soundtrack:
* The Rolling Stones, “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”
* Quantic Soul Orchestra, “Pushin’ On”
* Ive Mendes, “À Beira Mar”
* Peepin’ Tom, “Mojo”
* My Morning Jacket, “Rocket Man”

Synopsis: We meet 40ish year old Hank Moody in a church asking Jesus to help him get his life back on track. He is then distracted by a hot nun, which turns out to be a dream that is representative of his lifestyle. Sex-addicted Hank sleeps with many women including a woman who is cheating on her enraged and muscular husband and 16-year-old girl Mia whom he thinks is in college. Moody also has to interact with ex-girlfriend Karen who might still love him. With her, they share the custody of their 12-year-old daughter Becca who is wise beyond her years but is starting to have a sex life, which freaks out both of her parents.

This is the video of Californication Session 1, Episode 1 : ” Pilot “

Pamela Adlon as Marcy

Date of Birth: July 9, 1966

Birth Place: New York City

Family:
Married Felix O. Adlon

Actor Bio:
Pamela Adlon is an American actress and voice actress. She is sometimes credited as Pamela Segall, Pamela S. Adlon and Pamela Segall Adlon. Adlon is best known for providing the voice of Bobby Hill on the animated series King of the Hill—a role for which she won an Emmy for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance in 2002. She also played Dolores Rebchuck in Grease 2 and Ashley Spinelli on the animated series Recess (TV series). In 2006, she performed as the voice of Andy in Cartoon Network’s Squirrel Boy animated series, and co-starred with Louis C.K. in the now cancelled HBO sitcom Lucky Louie. Most recently, she starred as Marcy Runkle on Showtime’s Californication. On April 27, 2009, Adam Carolla announced on his podcast that Adlon had been cast as his wife in his upcoming sitcom, tentatively titled “Ace in the Hole. Aldon voiced Pajama Sam in the following Pajama Sam computer games: “Pajama Sam: No Need To Hide When It’s Dark Outside”, “Pajama Sam 2: Thunder and Lightning Aren’t so Frightening,” “Pajama Sam 3: You Are What You Eat From Your Head To Your Feet” and”Pajama Sam’s Games To Play On Any Day”

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Movies:
* Grease 2 (1982)
* The Facts of Life (1979) (TV series) (1983–1984)
* Night Court (TV series) (1984)
* The Redd Foxx Show (1986)
* Wiseguy (TV series) (1988) Tanya Medley
* Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) (Film) (voice) – Ket
* Say Anything… (1989)
* Star Trek Next Generation (TV series)(Season 3, episode 4) (1989) – Oji.
* The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)
* Rugrats (1991) (TV series) (voice) Dean, Sticky, Wise Guy, Big Justin
* The Gate II: Trespassers (1992) Liz
* FernGully: The Last Rainforest (voice)
* Down the Shore (1992) Miranda
* Phantom 2040 (1994) (TV series) (voice)
* Quack Pack (1996) (TV series) (voice) Dewey
* Sgt. Bilko (1996) as Sgt. Raquel “Rocky” Barbella
* Jungle Cubs (1996) – Baloo
* Bed of Roses (1996) – Kim
* King of the Hill (1997-2009) (voice of Bobby Hill)
* Princess Mononoke (1997) (voice)
* 101 Dalmatians: The Series (1997) (TV series) (voice) Lucky
* Recess (1997) (voice of Ashley Spinelli)
* Pepper Ann (1997) (TV series) (voice) Margaret “Moose” Pearson
* Grim Fandango (1998) (video game) (voice)
* Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot (1999) (TV series) (voice) Rusty and Jo
* Vampire Hunter D (2000) (voice)
* Teacher’s Pet (2000) (TV series) (voice)
* Escape from Monkey Island (2000) (video game)
* Recess: School’s Out (2001) (voice of Spinelli)
* The Oblongs… (2001) (TV series) (voice of Milo Francis Oblong, Jared Kilmer, The Debbies)
* Time Squad (2001) (TV series) (voice of Otto Osworth)
* What’s New, Scooby-Doo? (TV series) (2 episodes, 2002)
* Beyond (2003) (voice)
* Final Fantasy X-2 (2003) (video game) (voice)
* The Animatrix (2003) (voice)
* Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks (2003) (TV series) (voice)
* Teacher’s Pet (2004) (voice)
* Squirrel Boy (2006) (voice of Andy)
* Lucky Louie (2006) as Kim
* Californication (2007)
* WordGirl (2007) (voice of Eileen a/k/a The Birthday Girl)
* El Tigre:The Adventures of Manny Rivera (2007)
* Tinker Bell (2008) (voice of Vidia)
* The Drinky Crow Show – Mademmoiselle DeBoursay, Claire, additional voices
* Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure (2009) (voice of Vidia)

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