Alex Borstein
Known For
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.
Most Known For
Family Guy
as Lois Griffin / Tricia Takanawa / Loretta Brown / Barbara Pewterschmidt (voice)
Shameless
as Lou Deckner
Friends
as Bitter Woman on Stage
American Dad!
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
Frasier
as Evelyn
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
Gilmore Girls
as Drella
Gilmore Girls
as Miss Celine
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
as Susie Myerson
Resident Alien
as Carlyn
Life in Pieces
as Linette
Workaholics
as Colleen Walker
Hot in Cleveland
as Preshi
The Bad Guys 2
as Commissioner Misty Luggins (voice)
Power Rangers
as Queen Machina (voice)
Masters of Sex
as Loretta
Drawn Together
as Jelly Donuts Leader (voice)