Alex Borstein
Acting
1971-02-15 · 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.
Filmography
The Bad Guys 2
2025 · Movie
Alex Borstein: Corsets & Clown Suits
2023 · Movie
Devise the Plan: Making 'The Bad Guys'
2022 · Movie
Maraschino Ruby
2022 · Movie
The Bad Guys
2022 · Movie
Extinct
2021 · Movie
Resident Alien
2021 · Series
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
2021 · Series
Bombardier Blood
2020 · Movie
Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens
2020 · Series
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · Series
Las que faltaban
2019 · Series
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
2017 · Series
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
2016 · Series
Man Rots from the Head
2016 · Movie
The Angry Birds Movie
2016 · Movie
Bordertown
2016 · Series
TV's Funniest Animated Stars: A Paley Center for Media Special
2015 · Movie
Love the Coopers
2015 · Movie
The Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship
2015 · Movie
Life in Pieces
2015 · Series
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Series
Delirium
2014 · Series
A Million Ways to Die in the West
2014 · Movie
Robot Chicken DC Comics Special II: Villains in Paradise
2014 · Movie
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Series
Getting On
2013 · Series
Masters of Sex
2013 · Series
The Robot Chicken: DC Comics Special
2012 · Movie
ParaNorman
2012 · Movie
Ted
2012 · Movie
Bunk
2012 · Series
For Christ's Sake
2011 · Movie
Workaholics
2011 · Series
Shameless
2011 · Series
Family Guy Presents: It's a Trap!
2010 · Movie
Dinner for Schmucks
2010 · Movie
Hot in Cleveland
2010 · Series
Killers
2010 · Movie
Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
2009 · Movie
Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show
2009 · Movie
The Cleveland Show
2009 · Series
Family Guy Presents: Stewie Kills Lois and Lois Kills Stewie
2009 · Movie
Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy
2008 · Series
The Thick of It
2007 · Movie
Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest
2007 · Movie
The Lookout
2007 · Movie
Drop Dead Gorgeous (In a Down-to-Earth Bombshell Sort of Way)
2006 · Movie
Talkshow with Spike Feresten
2006 · Series
Little Man
2006 · Movie
Good Night, and Good Luck.
2005 · Movie
Too Late with Adam Carolla
2005 · Series
Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
2005 · Movie
Kicking & Screaming
2005 · Movie
American Dad!
2005 · Series
Billy's Dad Is a Fudge-Packer
2004 · Movie
Drawn Together
2004 · Series
Catwoman
2004 · Movie
Celebrity Blackjack
2004 · Series
Seeing Other People
2004 · Movie
Bad Santa
2003 · Movie
The Lizzie McGuire Movie
2003 · Movie
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Series
Showtime
2002 · Movie
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
2002 · Series
Dawg
2002 · Movie
A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas
2001 · Movie
Gary & Mike
2001 · Series
Gilmore Girls
2000 · Series
Titus
2000 · Series
Family Guy
1999 · Series
Pinky, Elmyra & The Brain
1998 · Series
Big Bad BeetleBorgs
1996 · Series
Power Rangers Zeo: Zeo Quest
1996 · Movie
The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper
1996 · Series
MADtv
1995 · Series
Friends
1994 · Series
Frasier
1993 · Series
Power Rangers
1993 · Series
The Bad Guys 3
Movie
Turn the Lights Back On
Movie