Alex Borstein
Acting
Born: 1971-02-15 in Highland, Illinois, USA
Biography
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.
Known For
Family Guy
Lois Griffin / Tricia Takanawa / Loretta Brown / Barbara Pewterschmidt (voice)
Shameless
Lou Deckner
American Dad!
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
Friends
Bitter Woman on Stage
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
Frasier
Evelyn
Gilmore Girls
Drella
Gilmore Girls
Miss Celine
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
Hot in Cleveland
Preshi
Power Rangers
Queen Machina (voice)
Resident Alien
Carlyn
The Cleveland Show
The Cleveland Show
Hadassah Lowenstein (voice)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Susie Myerson
The Bad Guys
Police Chief Misty Luggins (voice)
Workaholics
Colleen Walker
The Bad Guys 2
Commissioner Misty Luggins (voice)
Drawn Together
Jelly Donuts Leader (voice)
Drawn Together
AIDS Walk Coordinator / Lois Griffin (voice)
Ted
John's Mom
Masters of Sex
Loretta
Life in Pieces
Linette
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
Self - Contestant
The Angry Birds Movie
Sophie Bird / Peggy Bird (voice)
Little Man
Janet
Big Bad BeetleBorgs
Cataclaws (voice)
ParaNorman
Mrs. Henscher (voice)
Catwoman
Sally
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Millie
Titus
Nicky
Bordertown
Janice Buckwald
Bordertown
Becky Buckwald
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
Drella
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
Miss Celine
Extinct
Mali (voice)
Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens
Wilma (voice)
Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy
Various Characters (voice)