Alex Borstein

Known for ActingBorn 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Delirium

Too Late with Adam Carolla

Friends

Shameless

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Power Rangers Zeo: Zeo Quest

Drawn Together

Family Guy Presents: Stewie Kills Lois and Lois Kills Stewie

The Thick of It

A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas

Resident Alien

The Bad Guys 2

Gilmore Girls

The Bad Guys

Maraschino Ruby

Robot Chicken: DC Comics Special

Frasier

Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest

Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

Workaholics

Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life

Family Guy

Hot in Cleveland

Life in Pieces

Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side

Masters of Sex

Celebrity Wheel of Fortune

Good Night, and Good Luck.

ParaNorman

Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens

American Dad!

Power Rangers

MADtv

Gary & Mike

Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story

Robot Chicken DC Comics Special II: Villains in Paradise

Family Guy Presents: It's a Trap!

Titus

Alex Borstein: Corsets & Clown Suits

The Lookout

Bad Santa

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Ted

The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper

Big Bad BeetleBorgs

Pinky, Elmyra & The Brain

Billy's Dad Is a Fudge-Packer