Alex Borstein Biography

Alex Borstein is an American actress voice actress writer and comedian. She is well 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.
Borstein was perhaps best known on MADtv for her character Ms. Swan; her other recurring characters included Eracist Anne Stick Chick Echo singer Jasmine Wayne-Wayne child prodigy Karen Goddard lounge singer Shaunda News at Six's outside-the-studio reporter Sue Napersville and Cordo the GAP troll. When Seth Green made recurring appearances on the show as mean boss Mr. Brightling Borstein would play his mother Mama Brightling.
While working on MADtv Borstein met Seth MacFarlane who was then preparing to launch the animated sitcom Family Guy on FOX. MacFarlane cast Borstein as the voice of key character Lois Griffin. After the show's debut in January 1999 Family Guy was cancelled by the network in 2000 and 2002 but returned in 2005 and is still on air today. As well as her role as the voice performer for Lois and several other characters throughout the series (including a brief appearance as Ms. Swan in a 2005 episode) Borstein is also a producer and staff writer. She has made at least three guest appearances once as Lois Griffin on the Comedy Central animated program Drawn Together.

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