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Alex Borstein
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.
As actor
The Bad Guys 2
Alex Borstein: Corsets & Clown Suits
The Bad Guys
Maraschino Ruby
Devise the Plan: Making 'The Bad Guys'
Extinct
The Angry Birds Movie
Man Rots from the Head
TV's Funniest Animated Stars: A Paley Center for Media Special
Love the Coopers
Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship
Robot Chicken DC Comics Special II: Villains in Paradise
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Ted
ParaNorman
Robot Chicken: DC Comics Special
For Christ's Sake
Killers
Family Guy Presents: It's a Trap!
Dinner for Schmucks
Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show
Family Guy Presents: Stewie Kills Lois and Lois Kills Stewie
Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
The Lookout
The Thick of It
Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest
Drop Dead Gorgeous (In a Down-to-Earth Bombshell Sort of Way)
Little Man
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story