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Alex Borstein
Highland, Illinois, USA
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…
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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.
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2025
The Bad Guys 2
Movie Commissioner Misty Luggins (voice)
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2023
Alex Borstein: Corsets & Clown Suits
Movie Self
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2022
Devise the Plan: Making 'The Bad Guys'
Movie Self
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2022
Maraschino Ruby
Movie Police Chief Misty Luggins (voice)
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2022
The Bad Guys
Movie Police Chief Misty Luggins (voice)
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2021
Extinct
Movie Mali (voice)
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2021
Resident Alien
TV show Carlyn
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2021
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
TV show Self - Contestant
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2020
Bombardier Blood
Movie Executive Producer
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2020
Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens
TV show Wilma (voice)
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self
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2019
Las que faltaban
TV show Invitada
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2017
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
TV show Susie Myerson
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2016
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
TV show Drella
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2016
Man Rots from the Head
Movie Gladys
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2016
The Angry Birds Movie
Movie Sophie Bird / Peggy Bird (voice)
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2016
Bordertown
TV show Becky Buckwald
- 2015
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2015
Love the Coopers
Movie Angie Cooper
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2015
The Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship
Movie Wonder Woman (voice)
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2015
Life in Pieces
TV show Linette
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self
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2014
Delirium
TV show Lois Griffin (archive footage)
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2014
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Movie Millie
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2014
Robot Chicken DC Comics Special II: Villains in Paradise
Movie Wonder Woman (voice)
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2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV show Self
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2013
Getting On
TV show Dawn Forchette
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2013
Masters of Sex
TV show Loretta
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2012
Robot Chicken: DC Comics Special
Movie Wonder Woman / Giganta / Woman (voice)
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2012
ParaNorman
Movie Mrs. Henscher (voice)
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2012
Ted
Movie John's Mom
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2012
Bunk
TV show
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2011
For Christ's Sake
Movie Mrs. Marcus
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2011
Workaholics
TV show Colleen Walker
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2011
Shameless
TV show Lou Deckner
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2010
Family Guy Presents: It's a Trap!
Movie Lois Griffin as Princess Leia / Sy Snootles / Asian Woman / ET Announcer / Hot Girl's Mother (voice)
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2010
Dinner for Schmucks
Movie Red Hair Woman (uncredited)
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2010
Hot in Cleveland
TV show Preshi
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2010
Killers
Movie Mrs. Baily
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2009
Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
Movie Lois Griffin as Princess Leia / OnStar Voiceover / Empire Member's Wife / Robot Wife (voice)
