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Alex Borstein
2 FOLLOWERS • 46 CREDITS • FEB 15, 1971 • 53
Biography
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
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Late Night with Seth Meyers
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Frasier
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/8hWwBpB1mLUKqzjdGrcvJcIklp4.jpg)
Gilmore Girls
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/xnFFz3etm1vftF0ns8RMHA8XdqT.jpg)
American Dad!
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/9Gg1oM8Us8gCS5aJA8e0ZRuIHnf.jpg)
The Kelly Clarkson Show
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/9jkThAGYj2yp8jsS6Nriy5mzKFT.jpg)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Friends
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/bC42ksckQpjfck2BZ5McaEDN4pk.jpg)
Masters of Sex
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/mvSXebWlltJxJUNNkoLb0tzygi2.jpg)
Hot in Cleveland
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/9akij7PqZ1g6zl42DQQTtL9CTSb.jpg)
Shameless
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/5van3ktOTqWr5lcixh5aR8NlqqW.jpg)
Resident Alien
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/92S4WKrD0pYEK8TkcLhw8tQoLLt.jpg)
Gary & Mike
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Workaholics
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Drawn Together
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/4jGgXHR8b9zOLFsqo57mmTNKKjY.jpg)
Awkwafina is Nora From Queens
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Too Late with Adam Carolla
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Life in Pieces
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Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
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Kicking & Screaming
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The Angry Birds Movie
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Dinner for Schmucks
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/1QVZXQQHCEIj8lyUhdBYd2qOYtq.jpg)
Ted
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/zlmlkLVNexUciv3ffdtqHELEVgg.jpg)
Little Man
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/4tXHrqYbETym7Def99MeXrpPyRA.jpg)
MADtv
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/9DZPtuYTKYxt6vzHvZ5FLThG4fl.jpg)
ParaNorman
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/9VB8vGV4Aznf6GUc9C7a1EzGHLz.jpg)
Killers
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Bad Santa
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A Million Ways to Die in the West
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Extinct
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The Bad Guys
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/pvnPgukFyEKgCzyOxyLiwyZ8T1C.jpg)
Catwoman
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/qx3SJlAp2RK656TusqKx1qEqVMW.jpg)
Power Rangers
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/ecDrdzRhl01fck3Bwd3pn9Qm3Un.jpg)
The Lizzie McGuire Movie
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Family Guy Presents: Stewie Kills Lois and Lois Kills Stewie
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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
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Getting On
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Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
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Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest
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Family Guy Presents: It's a Trap!
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Family Guy
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Family Guy Presents: Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
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