Alex Borstein
Acting
- Born:
- 1971-02-15
- Place of birth:
- 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
Filmography
Family Guy Happy Hell-o-ween
The Bad Guys 2
Alex Borstein: Corsets & Clown Suits
Devise the Plan: Making 'The Bad Guys'
Maraschino Ruby
The Bad Guys
Extinct
Resident Alien
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
Bombardier Blood
Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Las que faltaban
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
Man Rots from the Head
The Angry Birds Movie
Bordertown
TV's Funniest Animated Stars: A Paley Center for Media Special
Love the Coopers
The Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship
Life in Pieces
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Family Guy: The Simpsons Guy
Delirium
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Robot Chicken DC Comics Special II: Villains in Paradise
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Getting On
Masters of Sex
Robot Chicken: DC Comics Special
ParaNorman
Ted
Bunk
For Christ's Sake
Workaholics
Shameless
Family Guy Presents: It's a Trap!
Dinner for Schmucks
Hot in Cleveland
Killers
Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show
The Cleveland Show
Family Guy Presents: Stewie Kills Lois and Lois Kills Stewie
Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy
The Thick of It
Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest
The Lookout
Drop Dead Gorgeous (In a Down-to-Earth Bombshell Sort of Way)
Talkshow with Spike Feresten
Little Man
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Too Late with Adam Carolla
Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
Kicking & Screaming
American Dad!
Billy's Dad Is a Fudge-Packer
Drawn Together
Catwoman