Alex Borstein

Alex Borstein (54)

1971-02-15 | Highland, Illinois, USA

Alexandrea "Alex" Borstein (born February 15, 1973) 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.

Upcoming Films

On Movies

  • Alex Borstein: Corsets & Clown Suits
  • Maraschino Ruby
  • The Bad Guys
  • Extinct
  • Man Rots from the Head
  • The Angry Birds Movie
  • Love the Coopers
  • Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship
  • A Million Ways to Die in the West
  • Robot Chicken DC Comics Special II: Villains in Paradise
  • Robot Chicken: DC Comics Special
  • ParaNorman
  • Ted
  • For Christ's Sake
  • Family Guy Presents: It's a Trap!
  • Dinner for Schmucks
  • Killers
  • Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
  • Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show
  • Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest
  • The Lookout
  • Drop Dead Gorgeous (In a Down-to-Earth Bombshell Sort of Way)
  • Little Man
  • Good Night, and Good Luck.
  • Family Guy Presents: Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
  • Kicking & Screaming
  • Billy's Dad Is a Fudge-Packer
  • Catwoman
  • Seeing Other People
  • Bad Santa
  • The Lizzie McGuire Movie
  • Showtime
  • Dawg

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