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Alex Borstein
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Borstein at WonderCon, March 2016
Born Alexandrea Borstein
(1971-02-15) February 15, 1971 (age 46)
Highland Park, Illinois, U.S.
Alma mater
Occupation Actress, voice actress, writer, producer, comedian
Years active 1992–present
Television MADtv
Family Guy
Shameless
Getting On
Power Rangers
Spouse(s) Jackson Douglas (m. 1999; div. 2014)
Children 2
Parent(s) Irv Borstein (father)
Judy Borstein (mother)
Website www.alexborstein.com

Alexandrea "Alex" Borstein (born February 15, 1971) is an American actress, voice actress, writer, producer, and comedian. She has performed the 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 Deerfield, 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 born in Highland Park, Illinois, a suburb north of the city of Chicago, in 1973 (according to her own official website), though some sources still say 1971. She was raised in Deerfield, Illinois. Borstein has two elder brothers. Her parents, Irv and Judy Borstein, are both mental health professionals. Borstein is Jewish. Her mother was raised in Budapest, Hungary, and moved to the United States after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Borstein attended San Francisco State University in San Francisco, California.


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