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.
40 movies · 36 shows
The Bad Guys 2
2025·7.6
Alex Borstein: Corsets & Clown Suits
2023·6.6
Devise the Plan: Making 'The Bad Guys'
2022·0.0
Maraschino Ruby
2022·7.5
The Bad Guys
2022·7.5
Extinct
2021·6.2
Man Rots from the Head
2016·5.8
The Angry Birds Movie
2016·6.3
TV's Funniest Animated Stars: A Paley Center for Media Special
2015·0.0
Love the Coopers
2015·6.0
Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship
2015·7.4
A Million Ways to Die in the West
2014·6.1
Robot Chicken DC Comics Special II: Villains in Paradise
2014·6.8
Robot Chicken: DC Comics Special
2012·7.5
ParaNorman
2012·7.0
Ted
2012·6.5
For Christ's Sake
2011·5.0
Family Guy Presents: It's a Trap!
2010·6.8
Dinner for Schmucks
2010·5.7
Killers
2010·6.0
Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
2009·7.2
Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show
2009·5.6
Family Guy Presents: Stewie Kills Lois and Lois Kills Stewie
2009·8.1
The Thick of It
2007·8.5
Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest
2007·7.5
The Lookout
2007·6.7
Drop Dead Gorgeous (In a Down-to-Earth Bombshell Sort of Way)
2006·0.0
Little Man
2006·5.9
Good Night, and Good Luck.
2005·7.1
Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
2005·6.9
Kicking & Screaming
2005·5.8
Billy's Dad Is a Fudge-Packer
2004·6.4
Catwoman
2004·4.6
Seeing Other People
2004·5.8
Bad Santa
2003·6.6
The Lizzie McGuire Movie
2003·6.3
Showtime
2002·5.6
Dawg
2002·4.4
A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas
2001·8.1
Power Rangers Zeo: Zeo Quest
1996·7.3