While he passes for a pool shark, he’s THE amphibious man from Oscar contender, The Shape of Water! Doug Jones, good luck Sunday at the Academy Awards, & tonight at Young Variety of Southern California’s pool tourney, benefiting local children’s charities!!

Stars. They sit in bland rooms with fluorescent lighting, just like us!

A Wrinkle In Time used to scare me... But I feel like I got this tonight! 💄💪🏼 Dress by: Wow Couture; styled by Nicole Balzano. — at The Hollywood Roosevelt.

OH, so THAT’s what I’d look like as a Hollywood star! #themoreyouknow #excusemybeauty #stillgotit

As we mourn iO WEST’s closing this weekend, I can’t help but wax nostalgic of my time there (‘98-‘01). While I never met my spouse there (unlike everyone else, apparently), I did make some life-long, smart, funny friends, like my girl, Kristina Hayes. Our all-girl improv group, “Powerbox” was the hot-ticket for a minute. You can see why!

Throwback to 2006-2014, when I was a Spanish teacher. Note my two-toned tights, two different shoes, and lack of assault weapons! Ah, the good old days...

Making heart-openers my b on this v-day! ❤️ #valentinesday #yoga

Booyah! Managed to get my #carnaval on even still! #mardigras #saudades #brasil — at Make-A-Wish Foundation.

If I seem not all here this #fattuesday, it’s cuz my heart is in #Nola, celebrating #mardigras 💜💛💚. But according to my #krewe, Meg Kinney & Hallonius Phillips, Pepper’s there too! 👶🏻🎉

Pincha arms, lotus legs, focus on fleek! 💥🙏🏼

...and that it was! Thanks, friends, for my making my day. (Gonna rest my like-finger now.)

THIS IS (ALMOST) 43! I couldn’t do this when I was 41!!

Dear lighthouse life, Thank you for your thorough, albeit subjective analysis of my appearance. Beauty really IS in the eye of the beholder! Thankfully, my parents weren’t TOO disgusted, since they have the same smile and teeth and nose and wrinkles (you know, heredity). I’m lucky—being a beautiful ingenue was never part of the plan, but rather being an interesting, character actress. And well, whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it will achieve! But enough about me... who ARE YOU?? How do you have so much time on your hands?! I can only imagine how perfect your smile and nose and teeth must be! And if it’s not too personal, who hurt you? What bridge do you live under exactly? KIT! N

Y'all know I GO HARD on my birthday... This year promises to be (belting at top of lungs) ESPECIALLY FABULOUS! Please, local LA friends, make my birthday great again, and come to my party Monday!!! Yes, you got the invite... It's in your FB events. RSVP already so I feel popular! Or just come. In costume! Or not. I may even do a mid-party, tear-away pant, costume-change!! (I mean, The theme IS MUSICALS, so ANYTHING GOES!!) JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, what do you expect? It's ME!!!!! Just don’t not come, then CRY FOR ME, ARGENTINA!! 🇦🇷 Ok, guys and dolls, you've been warned-- we getting GREASY, and ALL THAT JAZZ! 🎉

I ❤️ THE NIGHTLIFE! Thank you, Brandon Liberati & Craig Ramsay for keeping it fabulous, always! Celebrity Page TV -#grammys2018

You know that game, “if you could have dinner with ANYONE in the world, living or dead— who would it be?” Well, that person for me— since I was age 10 and saw her do her solo show, “The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe”— was always, unquestionably, Lily Tomlin. THAT was the moment, there at the Denver Center, when I looked up at her on stage and said, “THAT’s what I want to be when I grow up.” And I never vacillated once since. Had pictures of her up in my locker, won the school talent show doing her monologues, and channelled her when I wrote & produced my own. Well, last night, it actually happened. I had dinner with my idol. (ARGENTINE STEAK-dinner, no less!) I’m done. I can die happy now! Thank you, Bob Bergen for giving me this opportunity, Patrika Darbo for making (despite the fires!) my dream come true, and to my fellow Television Academy PGEC board for your service & friendship. Enjoyed breaking bread with you too! (Just haven’t been obsessed with you for the last +30 years… till now!).

1 week without yoga down, 1 week to go... But at least my feet now are really clean! 😬🧘‍♀️🙏🏼 Wardrobe: Orange Cosmic Mermaid; photo: @koyu

Still glowing from the YUGE crowds yesterday... 💪🏼 #resist #riseup #timesup #wmla

I’m with her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her, and her... #timesup #womensmarch #dumptrump #notmypresident #resist #riseup #pollsforthepeople #grabembytheballot — attending Women’s March Los Angeles 2018 at Pershing Square Park Downtown LA.

If you have to have a layover, I highly recommend Aspen. #nativecoloradan #coloradogirl #homesweethome #colorfulcolorado #rockymountainhigh

I’m really not cut out for convalescence! North Dakota State University, here I come:

https://www.facebook.com/events/356981341432592/

What a difference a day makes!

Thank you all for racing to my rescue yesterday! The get-well comments, texts, and calls all WORKED!! I feel FANTASTIC, with the one exception: knowing I have to go a week or two without Yoga. (Which FEELS like the end of the world.) But that’s not to say I don’t still have a back-log of Yoga pics to post! 🤪🙏🏼 Wardrobe by: Orange Cosmic Mermaid; Photo by: Koyu.

I’m having a very routine, albeit not fun surgery in the hospital today. But at least I look like a famous Dutch masterpiece!

HBD & thanks to my dear friend, Elizabeth Epstein for a wild & wonderful day at Roar Foundation. (Prefer to see them in their natural habitat, of course— but nevertheless thankful to Tippi Hedren for providing them a good home, just an hour outside of LA!) 💕🦁

CLEARLY The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Golden Globes winner, Rachel Brosnahan) needs a great-great aunt in season 2, amiright?!

Where was Jessica?! This year was hardly a freak show-- thanks in part, to the tone my fellow Wildcat, Seth Meyers so deftly set. (This gross display of name-dropping calls for a MANDATORY REPOST of that time HE name-dropped ME to HER!) #GG #TimesUp #TruthHasAVoice #Oprah2020 #MondayMotivation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XLP-9Ij_9s

If I were a cookie, I’d be The Black Version Whoreo.

Yay! You can barely tell it was just Christmas!!! Thanks, Sandi McCree, Zak Barnett Studios, & Backstage for hosting me at the “Wonder Women Of Hollywood” talk. Way to kickoff the new year!

For those enduring mid-west temps “colder than Mars,” the “bomb-cyclone” back east, and snowfall in Florida (?!), I give you my mom in my yard:

I shot 5 horror movies in 2017! In 2018, I want to shoot THIS as a TV show. Got that, Universe?!

https://www.facebook.com/ctrlaltdeleteshow/videos/1954109544916813/

LET’S DO THIS, 2018! (Full disclosure: this pic was not shot today. However—not to brag—I DID party till 5am, broke a man’s heart who looked just like Jesus, then destroyed my yoga mat by 10am. So that’s something!) Wardrobe by: Orange Cosmic Mermaid; Photo by @koyu.

Ended 2017 in the most perfect way possible: reuniting with one of my most treasured friends, Tim Dans, who I last saw 25 years ago when we were living in Argentina. Tim is deaf... with a wicked sense of humor. He used to hold his finger to his mouth and shush me... Even he knew what a loud-mouth I was! 🙉 Sorry for yammering your ear off, amigo mío! Just so happy to see you!! 😘❤️🇦🇷

HATE to say goodbye to my mom, but now that she's seen the famous, LA icon, Angelyne (and our matching pink cars!), how better to top the trip off?!?

My mom is ready for her close-up! 🎬📽☠️🎞

It's bring-your-mom-to-work-day today! — with Martha Grossman at Remmet Studios.

From our tiny family to yours: Merry Christmas! 🎄Thanks, Catch LA for the splendid meal! 🍣

Santa Claus is coming to town! (@1:25pm, to be exact.)

Some photo editor clearly has it out for me:

http://www.zergnet.com/news/2148330/what-these-ahs-stars-look-like-in-real-life

Manifesting with my new move!

I've been a homely cult leader's wife all week, so this is just to remind me that I was pretty as recently as last week!

All I really care about being is a working actor. #actorslife #takenothingforgranted #notrumpcare

The WONDERFUL thing about shooting a slasher film on your period: you don't have to tell the costumer what's corn syrup or not!

http://bloody-disgusting.com/indie/3474372/scout-taylor-compton-tops-chicago-based-horror-lurker/

Ooooo, we should shoot a horror movie here! Oh right, we are. #TheLurker

How 'bout that! My character and I share an alma mater! #GoCats #TheLurker

Men, take note: sound technician is the ONLY job in which this is considered appropriate workplace behavior! The Lurker — in Chicago, Illinois.

It really is a wonderful life!

Santa Babies! — with Eva Danielle.

Certified, TV dating coach, Damona Resnick Hoffman & I discuss how to achieve eternal sunshine of the spotless mind after an ugly break-up. (It can be done! I did it!!) Listen & learn:

https://www.facebook.com/DamonaHoffman/videos/10155928124922888

All I want for Christmas is to play this crazy character forever. 👇🏼😜🎥🎄

https://www.facebook.com/ctrlaltdeleteshow/videos/1938397299821371/

Sometimes... a celebrity gossip site totally gets it right. ❤️️💕💝 Daryle Koltay & The Blast:

https://theblast.com/ahs-pepper-meets-fan/

Bragging rights for life! I dragged Cindy & Bobby Brady to a BD/SM club last night. But look, they still appear as wholesome and lovely as ever! — attending Tallahassee Comic Con 2017 at Tallahassee Comic Con.

Once, twice, three times a Pepper! Kudos & thanks, Kollet Originals! Tallahassee's got talent! — attending Tallahassee Comic Con 2017 at Tallahassee Comic Con.

Before & After Then & Now Dumb & Dumber — with Wesley Day.

Last night I met my ultimate fanboy: Daryle Koltay, AKA @mister.micro. Daryle has microcephaly-- that's the birth defect that also afflicted Pepper. He and his lovely family travelled 2.5 hours from St. Petersburg, FL to meet me at our An Accidental Zombie - Named Ted red carpet screening last night. Daryle is AWESOME-- a super-fly dresser with an amazing story (check out his feature in People!). I don't know who was more excited to meet who! NOW look who's the crazed fangirl!! 👶🏻📸💋(Hair by: Brandon Liberati; styled by: Nicole Balzano.) — watching An Accidental Zombie - Named Ted Full Movie - 2017 at Marion Theater.