Alexandrea "Alex" Borstein (born February 15, 1971) is an American actor, writer, comedian, singer, and producer. She is best known for voicing Lois Griffin on the animated comedy television series Family Guy (1999–present), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award. She gained acclaim for starring as Susie Myerson in the comedy-drama series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017–present), which earned her two Primetime Emmy Awards.
Borstein also had lead roles as various characters on the sketch comedy series Mad TV (1997–2009), as well as Dawn Forchette in the medical comedy series Getting On (2013–2015). She had supporting roles in numerous films, including The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003), Catwoman (2004) (2004), Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005), Dinner for Schmucks (2010), Ted (2012), ParaNorman (2012), A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014), Extinct (2021), and The Bad Guys (2022).
Borstein spent her childhood in Deerfield, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, before moving with her family to Northridge, California, a neighborhood of Los Angeles. She graduated from Chatsworth High School in 1989. 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 the cast of MADtv after being scouted by talent agents. Borstein was also a writer and voice actor for several television shows, including Casper the Friendly Ghost, Pinky and the Brain, and Power Rangers Zeo (She additionally voiced six ''Mighty Morphin'' monsters prior to Zeo* ), before joining the cast of Mad TV in 1997 as a featured player, becoming a repertory player mid-season.
Notable tropes associated with Alex Borstein incudle:
- Vocal Evolution: She had this for her role of Lois Griffin.
