Alexandrea Borstein (born February 15, 1971) is an American actress, voice artist, comedian, writer and producer. She is known for voicing Lois Griffin on the animated comedy series Family Guy (1999–present), for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award from multiple nominations.
Borstein also had lead roles as various characters on the sketch comedy series MADtv (1997–2009), Dawn Forchette in the medical comedy series Getting On (2013–15), and Susie Myerson in the historical comedy-drama series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017–present), the latter of which has earned her two Primetime Emmy Awards. She had supporting roles in numerous films, including The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003), Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), Dinner for Schmucks (2010), Ted (2012), ParaNorman (2012), and A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014).
She 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 (on which she voiced Queen Machina), before joining the cast of MADtv in 1997 as a featured player, becoming a repertory player mid-season.
Christmas filmography[]
| Production | Year | Character(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Power Rangers Zeo: "A Season to Remember" | 1996 | Queen Machina |
| Family Guy: "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas" | 2001 | Lois Griffin |
| Bad Santa | 2003 | Milwaukee Mom with photo |
| The Cleveland Show: "A Cleveland Brown Christmas" | 2009 | Hadassah Lowenstein |
| Glenn Martin, DDS: "Deck the Malls" | Clerk | |
| Family Guy: "Road to the North Pole" | 2010 | Lois Griffin |
| The Cleveland Show: "Murray Christmas" | Hadassah Lowenstein | |
| The Cleveland Show: "Die Semi-Hard" | 2011 | |
| Family Guy: "Jesus, Mary and Joseph!" | 2012 | Lois Griffin |
| Family Guy: "Christmas Guy" | 2013 | |
| Family Guy: "The 2000-Year-Old Virgin" | 2014 | |
| Getting On: "The 7th Annual Christmas Card Competition" | Dawn Forchette | |
| Love the Coopers | 2015 | Angie |
| Family Guy: "How the Griffin Stole Christmas" | 2016 | Lois Griffin |
| Family Guy: "Don't Be a Dickens At Christmas" | 2017 | |
| Family Guy: "Christmas is Coming" | 2019 | |
| Family Guy: "The First No L" | 2020 | |
| Family Guy: "Christmas Crime" | 2021 | |
| Family Guy: "The Return of the King (of Queens)" | 2023 | |
| Family Guy: "Gift of the White Guy" | 2024 |