Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1971-02-15
- Works
- 2
Top works
- It takes a village idiot- and I married one!
- Family guy
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · 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 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…
Known for
- The Bad Guys 2 — Commissioner Misty Luggins (voice)2025
- Alex Borstein: Corsets & Clown Suits — Self2023
- The Bad Guys — Police Chief Misty Luggins (voice)2022
- Maraschino Ruby — Police Chief Misty Luggins (voice)2022
- Devise the Plan: Making 'The Bad Guys' — Self2022
- Extinct — Mali (voice)2021
- Resident Alien — Carlyn2021
- Celebrity Wheel of Fortune — Self - Contestant2021
- Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens — Wilma (voice)2020
- The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self2019
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 175
- Total plays
- 913
Tags
Gilmore Girlsfamily guyMadTVactressesfamily guy s21
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,243x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,272x
- ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks
· 2017 · cited 31,210x
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 22,782x
- Self-interaction correction to density-functional approximations for many-electron systems
· 1981 · cited 19,356x
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Key facts
- Born
- Alexandrea Borstein , ( 1971-02-15 ) February 15, 1971 (age 55) , Highland Park, Illinois , U.S.
- Alma mater
- San Francisco State University ( BA )
- Occupations
- Actress comedian writer producer
- Years active
- 1993–present
- Spouse
- Jackson Douglas ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1999 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2017 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 15 February 1971
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Highland Park
- Spouse
- Jackson Douglas
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Judaism
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.alexborstein.com
Article
Alexandrea Borstein (born February 15, 1971) is an American actress, comedian, writer, and producer best known as Lois Griffin in Family Guy, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award, and Susie Myerson in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017–2023), which won her two Primetime Emmy Awards.
Borstein also had lead roles as various characters on the sketch comedy series MADtv (1997–2009) and as Dawn Forchette in the medical comedy series Getting On (2013–2015). She had supporting roles in numerous films, including Showtime (2002), Bad Santa (2003), Kicking & Screaming (2005), Little Man (2006), Killers (2010), Ted (2012), A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014), Love the Coopers (2015), and The Bad Guys (2022) as well as its sequel (2025).
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