Alex Borstein
Acting
Born February 15, 1971 · Highland, Illinois, USA
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.
Films (40)
The Bad Guys 2
2025
Alex Borstein: Corsets & Clown Suits
2023
Devise the Plan: Making 'The Bad Guys'
2022
Maraschino Ruby
2022
The Bad Guys
2022
Extinct
2021
Man Rots from the Head
2016
The Angry Birds Movie
2016
TV's Funniest Animated Stars: A Paley Center for Media Special
2015
Love the Coopers
2015
Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship
2015
A Million Ways to Die in the West
2014
Robot Chicken DC Comics Special II: Villains in Paradise
2014
Robot Chicken: DC Comics Special
2012
ParaNorman
2012
Ted
2012
For Christ's Sake
2011
Family Guy Presents: It's a Trap!
2010
Dinner for Schmucks
2010
Killers
2010
Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
2009
Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show
2009
Family Guy Presents: Stewie Kills Lois and Lois Kills Stewie
2009
Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest
2008
The Thick of It
2007
The Lookout
2007
Drop Dead Gorgeous (In a Down-to-Earth Bombshell Sort of Way)
2006
Little Man
2006
Good Night, and Good Luck.
2005
Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
2005
Kicking & Screaming
2005
Billy's Dad Is a Fudge-Packer
2004
Catwoman
2004
Seeing Other People
2004
Bad Santa
2003
The Lizzie McGuire Movie
2003
Showtime
2002
Dawg
2002
A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas
2001
Power Rangers Zeo: Zeo Quest
1996