Birthday
1971-02-15Place of Birth
Highland, Illinois, USABiography
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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Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship
as Wonder Woman (voice)
2015
Robot Chicken DC Comics Special II: Villains in Paradise
as Wonder Woman (voice)
2014
Robot Chicken: DC Comics Special
as Wonder Woman / Giganta / Woman (voice)
2012
Family Guy Presents: It's a Trap!
as Lois Griffin as Princess Leia / Sy Snootles / Asian Woman / ET Announcer / Hot Girl's Mother (voice)
2010
Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
as Lois Griffin as Princess Leia (voice)
2009
Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show
as Self / Various (voice)
2009
Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy
as Various Characters (voice)
2008
Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest
as Lois Griffin as Princess Leia / Barbara Pewterschmidt as Aunt Beru (voice)
2007
Drop Dead Gorgeous (In a Down-to-Earth Bombshell Sort of Way)
as
2006
Family Guy Presents: Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
as Lois Griffin / Various Characters (voice)
2005