Alex Borstein
Acting · Born 1971-02-15 · age 55 · Highland, Illinois, USA
Alexandrea "Alex" Borstein (born February 15, 1971) is an American actress, singer, voice actress, writer and comedian. She is best known for her long-running role as Lois Griffin on the animated television series Family Guy, and as a cast member on the sketch comedy series MADtv. A native of Highland Park, Illinois, Borstein is a graduate of San Francisco State University, where she studied rhetoric. She was trained in improvisational comedy at the ACME Comedy Theatre, near Hollywood, California, and was selected to join MADtv after being scouted by talent agents who noticed her work at the theatre. She was a writer and voice actor for several television shows, including Casper, Pinky and the Brain and Power Rangers: Zeo, before joining the cast of MADtv as a featured player, and later as a repertory player in 1997. As an actress, she has made appearances in such films as The Lizzie McGuire Movie, Catwoman and Dinner for Schmucks.
Titles
Ted
Friends
Family Guy
A Million Ways to Die in the West
The Angry Birds Movie
Catwoman
Shameless
ParaNorman
The Bad Guys
Bad Santa
American Dad!
Killers
Dinner for Schmucks
Little Man
Drawn Together
The Lizzie McGuire Movie
Gilmore Girls
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Showtime
Resident Alien
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Frasier
Love the Coopers
Power Rangers
The Bad Guys 2
The Lookout
Kicking & Screaming
The Cleveland Show
Family Guy Presents: It's a Trap!
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
Masters of Sex
Workaholics
Extinct
Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
Life in Pieces
Hot in Cleveland
MADtv
Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest
Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens
Robot Chicken: DC Comics Special
Titus
Pinky, Elmyra & The Brain
Bordertown
Getting On
Seeing Other People
Robot Chicken DC Comics Special II: Villains in Paradise
The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper
Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy
Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship
Family Guy Presents: Stewie Kills Lois and Lois Kills Stewie
Big Bad BeetleBorgs
Dawg
A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas
Billy's Dad Is a Fudge-Packer
Maraschino Ruby
Delirium
Alex Borstein: Corsets & Clown Suits
Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show
Power Rangers Zeo: Zeo Quest