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Alex Borstein
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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.
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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.
Known For
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Frasier
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
American Dad!
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Gilmore Girls
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
MADtv
Friends
Masters of Sex
Hot in Cleveland
Shameless
The Cleveland Show
Resident Alien
Workaholics
Gary & Mike
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
Awkwafina is Nora From Queens
Drawn Together
Too Late with Adam Carolla
Life in Pieces
Kicking & Screaming
Power Rangers Zeo: Zeo Quest
The Angry Birds Movie
Dinner for Schmucks
Ted
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Little Man
ParaNorman
Killers
Extinct
The Bad Guys
Bad Santa
Catwoman
Power Rangers
The Lizzie McGuire Movie
Family Guy Presents: Stewie Kills Lois and Lois Kills Stewie
Family Guy
Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest
Family Guy Presents: It's a Trap!
Getting On
Family Guy Presents: Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Production Credits
Family Guy
Family Guy Presents: Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
Shameless
The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper
Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest
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