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Alexandrea Borstein (born February 15, 1971)[1] is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer. Borstein voices Lois Griffin on the animated comedy television series Family Guy (1999–present), and won a Primetime Emmy Award for the role. She gained acclaim for starring as Susie Myerson in the comedy-drama series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017–present), which has earned her two Primetime Emmy Awards.

Alex Borstein
Borstein at the 2016 WonderCon
Born	Alexandrea Borstein (1971-02-15) February 15, 1971 (age 51) Highland Park, Illinois, U.S.
Alma mater	San Francisco State University
Occupation	Actress comedian writer producer
Years active	1993–present
Spouse	Jackson Douglas ​ ​ (m. 1999; div. 2017)​
Children	2

Borstein also had lead roles as various characters on the sketch comedy series MADtv (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, Catwoman (2004), Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), Dinner for Schmucks (2010), Ted (2012), ParaNorman (2012), and A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014).

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, Pinky and the Brain, and Power Rangers Zeo before joining the cast of MADtv in 1997 as a featured player. She became a repertory player mid-season.

Early life

Borstein was born in Highland Park, Illinois, a city north of Chicago. She was raised in Deerfield, Illinois, before her family moved to California.[2] Borstein has two older brothers. Her parents, Irv and Judy Borstein, are both mental health professionals.[3][4] Borstein has stated that she is of Hungarian and Mongolian descent.[5] Borstein is Jewish.[3][6]

Her father is from Atlanta. Her maternal grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary and immigrated to the United States after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.[7][8] Borstein attended San Francisco State University.[9]

Career

1993–1998: Career beginnings and MADtv

Borstein trained in improv at the ACME Comedy Theater, where she met her writing partner and future husband Jackson Douglas. Shortly after they began working together on the animated series Casper and Pinky and the Brain, Borstein left her position at an ad agency – where she had written print ads for Barbie – to become a full-time writer. In 1996, while still writing for Casper, Borstein worked on the show Power Rangers Zeo as the voice of Queen Machina, the queen of the Machine Empire.

In 1997, Borstein became a cast member on the third season of the sketch comedy show MADtv. She originally joined the cast as a featured player, but was upgraded to the repertory mid-season.

Borstein was best known on MADtv for her character Ms. Swan (owner of the Gorgeous Pretty Beauty Nail Salon); her other recurring characters included Eracist Anne, "Stick Chick" Echo, singer Jasmine Wayne-Wayne, child prodigy Karen Goddard, lounge singer Shaunda, News at Six 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.

1999–2009: Further success and Family Guy

While working on MADtv, Borstein met Seth MacFarlane, who was then preparing to launch the animated sitcom Family Guy on FOX. MacFarlane was originally supposed to create animated shorts for MADtv, but declined in favor of creating an independent series. MacFarlane cast Borstein as the voice of character Lois Griffin. After the show's debut in January 1999, Family Guy was cancelled by the network in 2002, but returned in 2005. As well as her role as the voice performer for Lois and several other characters (including a brief appearance as Ms. Swan in a 2005 episode), she is also a producer and staff writer. She was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for the episode "Lois Comes Out of Her Shell" in 2013.

In 2000, Borstein was cast as Sookie St. James in the WB drama Gilmore Girls. She portrayed Sookie in the pilot but her MADtv contract prevented her from continuing in the role. Borstein made recurring appearances on Gilmore Girls throughout the show's run, first as the harpist Drella and later as the stylist Miss Celine.

As a film actor, she played Ms. Ungermeyer the school principal in The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003), the best friend of Halle Berry's character in Catwoman (2004), and an employee at CBS News in Good Night, and Good Luck (2005). She also had a small role in the movie Bad Santa (2003) and an uncredited cameo as an obnoxious coffee shop patron in the Will Ferrell movie Kicking & Screaming (2005). On some commercials, she sometimes voices Olive Oyl from Popeye and Betty Boop.

Borstein was a co-host of GSN's Celebrity Blackjack in 2004. She made at least three guest appearances, once as Lois Griffin, on the Comedy Central animated program Drawn Together.

Borstein was cast as a press secretary in the 2007 sitcom pilot The Thick of It, but the series was not picked up for broadcast. She was seen in the 2009 comedy For Christ's Sake, which was directed by her then husband Jackson Douglas.[10]

Borstein's production company is called Crackerpants, Inc. In 2007, it released the DVD Drop Dead Gorgeous (in a Down-to-Earth Bombshell Sort of Way), a recording of a live performance at the Alex Theatre with Teddy Towne as the opening act. The title comes from one of many female character breakdowns Borstein reads from to illustrate sexism in the industry.[11]

2010–present: Getting On and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Borstein has made several supporting appearances in such comedic films as Killers (2010), Dinner for Schmucks (2010), Ted (2012), ParaNorman (2012), A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014), and The Angry Birds Movie (2016).

In 2010, Borstein joined the first season staff of the Showtime comedy-drama series Shameless, as a writer and supervising producer. In its second season, she held the position of writer and consulting producer. She also guest-starred as Lou Deckner in numerous episodes of the series, beginning in the first-season episode "But at Last Came a Knock."

She also appeared as a comedian contestant on IFC's short-lived comedy-driven game show Bunk in 2012.

Borstein starred as Dawn Forchette on the HBO comedy series Getting On, which is a remake of a UK series with the same name. The series has gained positive reviews and earned multiple Primetime Emmy Award nominations. It aired from 2013 to 2015.

In 2017, Borstein began starring as Susie Myerson in the historical comedy-drama series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, for which she received significant critical acclaim and won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

Personal life

Borstein met actor and writer Jackson Douglas while she was studying improv at the ACME Comedy Theatre. Douglas proposed to her during the taping of a MADtv skit and they were married in 1999. Douglas filed for divorce in October 2014 and it was finalized in 2017.[12][13]

Borstein was pregnant while she recorded the DVD commentary for the Family Guy episode "Stewie Kills Lois"; she joked about naming her baby Stewie. She and Douglas have a son and a daughter.[14][15]

Borstein is a longtime advocate for the National Hemophilia Foundation.[16]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Coyote Ugly	Bidding Auction Woman	Uncredited
2002	Dawg	Darcy Smits
	Showtime	Casting Director
2003	The Lizzie McGuire Movie	Miss Ungermeyer
	Bad Santa	Milwaukee Mom
2004	Seeing Other People	Tracy
	Catwoman	Sally
	Billy's Dad Is a Fudge-Packer!	Betty Henderson	Short film
2005	Kicking & Screaming	Obnoxious Hummer Lady	Uncredited
	Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story	Lois Griffin / Various voices	Direct-to-video Also writer and co-producer
	Good Night, and Good Luck	Natalie
2006	Little Man	Janet
2007	The Lookout	Mrs. Lange
2010	Killers	Lily Bailey
	Dinner for Schmucks	Martha
	For Christ's Sake	Mrs. Marcus
2012	Ted	Helen Bennett
	ParaNorman	Mrs. Henscher (voice)
2014	A Million Ways to Die in the West	Millie
2015	Love the Coopers	Angie
2016	The Angry Birds Movie	Sophie Bird / Peggy Bird (voice)
2021	Extinct	Mali (voice)
2022	The Bad Guys	Chief Misty Luggins (voice)

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993–1994	Mighty Morphin Power Rangers	Various voices[17]	4 episodes
1996	Power Rangers Zeo	Queen Machina / Robocupid (voice)	42 episodes
	Big Bad Beetleborgs	Cataclaws (voice)	Episode: "Yo Ho Borgs"
1997–2009, 2016	MADtv	Herself / Various characters	Main role; 127 episodes Also writer
1999–present	Family Guy	Lois Griffin / Barbara Pewterschmidt / Tricia Takanawa / Various voices	Main role; 349 episodes Also writer and producer
2000–2005	Gilmore Girls	Drella / Miss Celine / Doris	9 episodes
2002	Titus	Nicky	Episode: "Bachelor Party"
2002–2003	3 South	Becky (voice)	3 episodes
2003	Friends	Bitter Woman on Stage	Episode: "The One with the Soap Opera Party"
	Frasier	Evelyn	Episode: "Farewell, Nervosa"
2005–2020	Robot Chicken	Various voices	13 episodes
2006–2016	American Dad!	Doctor Gupta / Museum Curator (voice)	Episodes: "Roger 'n' Me" and "Garfield and Friends"
2006	Drawn Together	Lois Griffin / Various voices	Episodes: "A Tale of Two Cows" and "The Lemon AIDS Walk"
2007–2009	Slacker Cats	Latoyah (voice)	11 episodes
2009–2013	The Cleveland Show	Hadassah Lowenstein / Lois Griffin / Various voices	17 episodes
2009	Glenn Martin, DDS	Clerk (voice)	Episode: "Deck the Malls"
2011–2015	Shameless	Lou Deckner	5 episodes; also writer and consulting producer
2011	Night of the Hurricane	Lois Griffin (voice)	Television special
2012	Hot in Cleveland	Preshi	Episode: "Rubber Ball"
2012	Robot Chicken DC Comics Special	Wonder Woman / Giganta / Woman at Bar (voice)	Television special
2012–2016	Workaholics	Colleen Walker	3 episodes
2012–2013	Bunheads	Sweetie Cramer / Hooker	Episodes: "Pilot" and "Channing Tatum Is a Fine Actor"
2013–2015	Getting On	Dawn Forchette	Main role; 18 episodes
2015	Life in Pieces	Lynette	Episode: "Ponzi Sex Paris Bounce"
	Masters of Sex	Loretta	Episode: "Monkey Business"
	Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship	Wonder Woman (voice)	Television special
2016	Bordertown	Janice Buckwald / Becky (voice)	12 episodes
	Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life	Drella / Miss Celine	Episodes: "Winter" and "Fall"
	Son of Zorn	Elizabeth	Episode: "Return of the Drinking Buddy"
2016-2018	Animals.	Lois Griffin (voice)	Episode: "Pigeons."
2017–present	The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel	Susie Myerson	Main role; 34 episodes
2022	Resident Alien	Carlyn	Episode: "Girls' Night"

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Family Guy Video Game!	Lois Griffin / Various voices
2012	Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse
2014	Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff
2022	Warped Kart Racers	Lois Griffin

Web

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008–2010	Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy	Various voices	6 episodes

Radio

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2015	Special Relativity[18]	Nox / Lucinda

Awards and nominations

Year	Organization	Category	Work(s)	Result	Ref.
2006	DVD Exclusive Awards	Best Screenplay (for a DVD Premiere Movie)	Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story	Won	[19]
	Spike Video Game Awards	Best Cast	Family Guy Video Game!	Won
	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture	Good Night, and Good Luck	Nominated
2008	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Animated Program	Family Guy: Blue Harvest	Nominated
2013		Outstanding Voice-Over Performance	Family Guy: Lois Comes Out of Her Shell	Nominated
2018	Critics' Choice Television Awards	Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series	The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel	Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series		Won
		Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance	Family Guy: Nanny Goats	Won
2019	Golden Globe Awards	Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film	The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel	Nominated
	Critics' Choice Television Awards	Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series		Won
	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series		Nominated
		Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series		Won
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series		Won
		Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance	Family Guy: Throw It Away	Nominated
2020	Critics' Choice Television Awards	Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series	The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel	Won
	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series		Nominated
		Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series		Won
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series		Nominated
2022	Primetime Emmy Awards			Nominated

References

External links

• Alex Borstein at IMDb
• Alex Borstein at AllMovie
• SuicideGirls interview with Alex Borstein

На других языках

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[de] Alex Borstein

Alexandrea „Alex“ Borstein (* 15. Februar 1971[1] in Highland Park, Illinois) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin, Synchronsprecherin, Drehbuchautorin, Produzentin und Komikerin.

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[es] Alex Borstein

Alexandrea Alex Borstein (Highland Park, 15 de febrero de 1973) es una actriz estadounidense, famosa por las series televisivas MADtv, Power Rangers Zeo y Padre de Familia, donde pone voz a Lois Griffin, entre otros personajes de la serie. También es una reconocida actriz de doblaje y por ganar grandes premios de renombre por interpretar a Susie Myerson en la aclamada serie: La maravillosa Señora Maisel.

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[ru] Борштейн, Алекс

Алекса́ндрия[1] (А́лекс) Борште́йн (англ. Alex Borstein; род. 15 февраля 1971[2], Хайленд-Парк, Иллинойс) — американская актриса кино и телевидения, актриса озвучивания, сценарист и продюсер.

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