Alex Borstein
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.
77 acting credits
Acting · 77
Family Guy
1999
Shameless
2011
American Dad!
2005
Friends
1994
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Frasier
1993
Gilmore Girls
2000
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Masters of Sex
2013
Resident Alien
2021
Hot in Cleveland
2010
Power Rangers
1993
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
2017
The Cleveland Show
2009
Life in Pieces
2015
The Bad Guys 2
2025
Ted
2012
Workaholics
2011
Drawn Together
2004
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
2021
Titus
2000
Little Man
2006
The Bad Guys
2022
The Angry Birds Movie
2016
Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens
2020
Big Bad BeetleBorgs
1996
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
2016
Getting On
2013
A Million Ways to Die in the West
2014
Catwoman
2004
ParaNorman
2012
Bordertown
2016
Gary & Mike
2001
Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy
2008
Talkshow with Spike Feresten
2006
Killers
2010
Bad Santa
2003
Delirium
2014
Too Late with Adam Carolla
2005
Extinct
2021
Dinner for Schmucks
2010
Love the Coopers
2015
Kicking & Screaming
2005
Bunk
2012
Good Night, and Good Luck.
2005
The Lizzie McGuire Movie
2003
Showtime
2002
Family Guy Presents: It's a Trap!
2010
Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
2005
MADtv
1995
The Lookout
2007
Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
2009
Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship
2015
TV's Funniest Animated Stars: A Paley Center for Media Special
2015
Robot Chicken DC Comics Special II: Villains in Paradise
2014
Celebrity Blackjack
2004
Las que faltaban
2019
Family Guy Presents: Stewie Kills Lois and Lois Kills Stewie
2009
Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest
2007
Robot Chicken: DC Comics Special
2012
Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show
2009
A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas
2001
Dawg
2002
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
2002
Maraschino Ruby
2022
Seeing Other People
2004
The Bad Guys 3
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Power Rangers Zeo: Zeo Quest
1996
The Thick of It
2007
Devise the Plan: Making 'The Bad Guys'
2022
Billy's Dad Is a Fudge-Packer
2004
For Christ's Sake
2011
Alex Borstein: Corsets & Clown Suits
2023
Man Rots from the Head
2016
Drop Dead Gorgeous (In a Down-to-Earth Bombshell Sort of Way)
2006