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Alex Borstein, born Alexandrea Borstein on February 15, 1971, in Highland Park, is an American comedian, screenwriter, singer, and television actor. A member of the Writers Guild of America West, she has worked in the United States since 1993. Borstein is a citizen of the United States and speaks English. She is married to Jackson Douglas and has two children.
Her career includes work as a voice and harp player. She received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. Her notable works include *Family Guy* and *It takes a village idiot- and I married one!*. She attended San Francisco State University.
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Person · Open Library
- 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
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1971
Member of
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 175
- Total plays
- 913
Tags
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,600x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,510x
- ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks
· 2017 · cited 32,038x
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 23,765x
- Welcome to the Tidyverse
· 2019 · cited 20,469x
via Crossref · CC0
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
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Encyclopedic overview
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).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alex Borstein” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.