High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pamela Reed (born April 2, 1949) is an American actress. She is known for playing Ruth Powers in various episodes of TV`s The Simpsons, as Arnold Schwarzenegger`s hypoglycemic partner in the 1990 movie Kindergarten Cop and as the matriarch Gail Green in Jericho. She currently appears as Marlene Griggs-Knope on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation.