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