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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The holidays are approaching, and who better to play Jesus in the town nativity scene than Stewie? P...
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Lizzie McGuire has graduated from middle school and takes a trip to Rome, Italy with her class. And ...
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Ed and Alice are two months shy of getting married when she realizes that she wishes she'd had a mor...
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The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist wi...
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The maniacal baby of the Griffin family, Stewie, meets his future self. In doing this he discovers t...
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Phil Weston has been unathletic his entire life. In college he failed at every sport that he tried o...
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After leaving prison, dwarf criminal Calvin Sims joins his moron brother Percy in stealing an expens...
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Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic ac...
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With the Griffins stuck at home during a blackout, Peter tells the story of "Star Wars Episode IV: A...
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With the Griffins stuck again at home during a blackout, Peter tells the story of “Star Wars Episode...
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Rising executive Tim Conrad works for a boss who hosts a monthly dinner in which the guest who bring...
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Brian takes Stewie to the mall, only to get a rude brush-off from the Santa who works there when he ...
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With the Griffins stuck again at home during a blackout, Peter tells the story of “Star Wars Episode...
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Robert, a small town priest, finds out his estranged brother desperately needs a loan for cancer tre...
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In the town of Blithe Hollow, Norman Babcock can speak to the dead, but no one other than his eccent...
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The Robot Chicken DC Comics Special brings you the awesomeness of the DC Comics universe of characte...
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The Robot Chicken crew takes a peek at what happens when the DC villains end up on the same beach as...
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As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found ...
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The Robot Chicken DC Comics Special 3: Magical Friendship surrenders DC Comics' multitude of Super H...
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When four generations of the Cooper clan come together for their annual Christmas Eve celebration, a...
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An island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds or almost entirely. In this paradise, Red, a...
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When the Bad Guys, a crew of criminal animals, are finally caught after years of heists and being th...
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Recent movies
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| 1 | The Bad Guys 2 (2025) | Commissioner Misty Luggins (voice) | 8 | |
| 2 | The Bad Guys (2022) | Police Chief Misty Luggins (voice) | 7.6 | |
| 3 | Extinct (2021) | Mali (voice) | 10 | |
| 4 | The Angry Birds Movie (2016) | Sophie Bird / Peggy Bird (voice) | 6.6 | |
| 5 | Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship (2015) | Wonder Woman (voice) | 7 | |
| 6 | Love the Coopers (2015) | Angie Cooper | 5.7 | |
| 7 | Robot Chicken DC Comics Special II: Villains in Paradise (2014) | Wonder Woman (voice) | 7.5 | |
| 8 | A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014) | Millie | 6.4 | |
| 9 | Ted (2012) Oscars 2013 | John's Mom | 6.9 | |
| 10 | ParaNorman (2012) Oscars 2013 | Mrs. Henscher (voice) | 7.2 | |
| 11 | Robot Chicken: DC Comics Special (2012) | Wonder Woman / Giganta / Woman (voice) | 6.5 | |
| 12 | For Christ's Sake (2011) | Mrs. Marcus | - | - |
| 13 | Family Guy Presents: It's a Trap! (2010) | Lois Griffin as Princess Leia / Sy Snootles / Asian Woman / ET Announcer / Hot Girl's Mother (voice) | 7.2 | |
| 14 | Dinner for Schmucks (2010) | Red Hair Woman (uncredited) | 5.9 | |
| 15 | Family Guy Presents: Road to the North Pole (2010) | Lois Griffin (voice) | 7 | |
| 16 | Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side (2010) | Lois Griffin as Princess Leia (voice) | 7.9 | |
| 17 | Killers (2010) | Mrs. Baily | 6.3 | |
| 18 | The Lookout (2007) | Mrs. Lange | 6.8 | |
| 19 | Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest (2007) | Lois Griffin as Princess Leia / Barbara Pewterschmidt as Aunt Beru (voice) | 7.2 | |
| 20 | Little Man (2006) | Janet | 5.8 | |
| 21 | Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) Oscars 2006 | Natalie | 7.4 | |
| 22 | Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (2005) | Director / Writer | 7.5 | |
| 23 | Kicking & Screaming (2005) | Obnoxious Hummer Lady (uncredited) | 5.9 | |
| 24 | Catwoman (2004) | Sally | 4.1 | |
| 25 | Seeing Other People (2004) | Tracy | - | - |
| 26 | Bad Santa (2003) | Milwaukee Mom with Photo | 6.9 | |
| 27 | The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003) | Miss Ungermeyer | 5.4 | |
| 28 | Showtime (2002) | Casting Director | 5.7 | |
| 29 | Dawg (2002) | Darcy Smits | - | - |
| 30 | A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas (2001) | Lois Griffin / Female Hipster / Julie / Grandma (voice) | 7 |
