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 .
| Episode |
Shameless (US) But at Last Came a Knock |
2011 |
| Episode |
Family Guy It Takes a Village Idiot... and I Married One |
2007 |
| Episode |
Shameless (US) Hurricane Monica |
2012 |
| Movie | Drop Dead Gorgeous (In a Down-to-Earth Bombshell Sort of Way) | 2006 |
| Episode |
Shameless (US) A Beautiful Mess |
2012 |
| Episode |
Shameless (US) Three Boys |
2011 |
| Episode |
Shameless (US) Cascading Failures |
2013 |
| Movie | Family Guy Presents: Seth and Alex's almost live comedy show | 2009 |
| Episode |
Family Guy Fish Out of Water |
2001 |
| Episode |
Family Guy Deep Throats |
2006 |
| Episode |
Family Guy Bango Was His Name Oh! |
2006 |
| Movie | Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story | 2005 |
| Episode |
Family Guy Death Has a Shadow |
1999 |
| Movie | Drop Dead Gorgeous (In a Down-to-Earth Bombshell Sort of Way) | 2006 |
| Movie | Bombardier Blood | 2019 |
| Episode |
Drawn Together A Tale of Two Cows |
2006 |
| Episode |
Inside the Actors Studio The Cast of Family Guy |
2009 |
| Episode |
Shameless (US) But at Last Came a Knock |
2011 |
| Episode |
Las que faltaban Alex Borstein |
2019 |
| Episode |
MADtv Episode #1304 |
2007 |
| Episode |
Drawn Together The Lemon-AIDS Walk |
2006 |
| Episode |
Titus Bachelor Party |
2002 |
| Episode |
Robot Chicken Suck It |
2006 |
| Episode |
3 South Midnight Del |
2003 |
| Episode |
3 South Joe Gets Expelled |
2003 |
| Episode |
Power Rangers Peace, Love, and Woe |
1993 |
| Episode |
Robot Chicken The Deep End |
2005 |
| Episode |
Gilmore Girls Kill Me Now |
2000 |
| Episode |
Gilmore Girls Here Comes the Son |
2003 |
| Episode |
Power Rangers Two for One |
1994 |
| Episode |
Robot Chicken Unionizing Our Labor |
2009 |
| Episode |
Gilmore Girls The Deer Hunters |
2000 |
| Episode |
The Cleveland Show Once Upon a Tyne in New York |
2010 |
| Episode |
Friends The One with the Soap Opera Party |
2003 |
| Episode |
American Dad! Roger N' Me |
2006 |
| Episode |
Power Rangers Bloom of Doom |
1994 |
| Episode |
Shameless (US) Strangers on a Train |
2014 |
| Episode |
American Dad! Garfield and Friends |
2016 |
| Episode |
The Cleveland Show Gone With the Wind |
2010 |
| Episode |
Life in Pieces Ponzi Sex Paris Bounce |
2015 |
| Episode |
Shameless (US) Cascading Failures |
2013 |
| Episode |
Gilmore Girls Pilot |
2000 |
| Episode |
The Cleveland Show Your Show of Shows |
2011 |
| Episode |
Shameless (US) There's the Rub |
2014 |
| Episode |
MADtv Episode #1012 |
2005 |
| Episode |
MADtv The 200th Episode |
2003 |
| Episode |
Drawn Together Clara's Dirty Little Secret |
2004 |
| Episode |
Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter Comedy Actresses |
2019 |
| Episode |
The Cleveland Show Pilot |
2009 |
| Episode |
Family Guy Family Guy at Comic-Con 2010 |
1970 |
| Episode |
Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy Adopted |
2008 |
| Episode |
Power Rangers Birds of a Feather |
1993 |
| Episode |
Robot Chicken They Took My Thumbs |
2008 |
| Episode |
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Jeffrey Wright, Alex Borstein, Maxwell |
2022 |
| Episode |
Beetleborgs Yo Ho Borgs |
1996 |
| Episode |
Workaholics Orgazmo Birth |
2014 |
| Episode |
The Cleveland Show Mama Drama |
2012 |
| Episode |
Gilmore Girls The Lorelais' First Day at Chilton |
2000 |
| Episode |
Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy Things You Never Hear |
2009 |
| Episode |
MADtv Episode #1301 |
2007 |
| Episode |
Hot in Cleveland Rubber Ball |
2012 |
| Episode |
Frasier Farewell, Nervosa |
2003 |
| Episode |
MADtv Episode #1302 |
2007 |
| Episode |
3 South New Friends |
2002 |
