Biography

In 2008, co-wrote a pilot with Louis C.K. for CBS but it was not picked up.

Father was American and mother is English.

As a U.S citizen, in January 2020 registered as a British citizen (possible due to her mother being British), so now is a dual US and British national.

Formerly a close friend of Louis CK who appeared often on his show "Louie" and wrote the first 2 seasons of her series "Better Things" with him. After news of CK's sexual harrassment emerged in November 2017, Adlon cut ties with him and fired her former manager (who had also managed CK). In the runup to Season 3 of "Better Things", Adlon confirmed in a profile in The New Yorker that she had not any contact with CK in a very long time, and that she was trying to not mention or reference him during the show's production.

Her father was of Russian Jewish and Ukrainian Jewish descent. Her mother, originally an Episcopalian, converted to Judaism.

Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.

You can't regulate what these kids are being exposed to on the Internet. It's so way out of control. All you can do is just try to talk to your own kids.

The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.

I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on The Facts of Life (1979) to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.

Before Lucky Louie (2006), nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.