Alex Borstein

At 51 years old, Alex Borstein has this physical status:

Alexandrea Borstein (born February 15, 1971) is an American actor, writer, editor, and comedian.

She is best known for her role on the animated comedy series Family Guy (1999–present), for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award from multiple nominations. Borstein appeared in various scenes 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 appeared in many films, including The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003), Catwoman (2004), Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), Dinner for Schmucks (2010), 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 suburb of Los Angeles.

In 1989, she graduated from Chatsworth High School.

Borstein is a graduate of San Francisco State University, where she concentrated on rhetoric.

She was trained in improvisational comedy at the ACME Comedy Theatre near Hollywood, California, and she was chosen to join the cast of MADTV after being screened by talent agents.

Borstein was also a writer and voice actor for several television shows, including Casper, Pinky, and Zeo, as well as Power Rangers Zeo, before joining the cast of MADtv in 1997 as a featured player mid-season.

Early life

Borstein was born in Highland Park, Illinois, a city north of Chicago. She was born in Deerfield, Illinois, before her family immigrated to California. Borstein has two older brothers. Irv and Judy Borstein, her parents, are both mental health professionals. Borstein has stated that she is of Hungarian and Mongolian descent. Borstein is a Jew.

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 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Borstein attended San Francisco State University.

Personal life

When she was investigating improv at the ACME Comedy Theatre, Borstein ran into actor and writer Jackson Douglas. Douglas proposed to her at the taping of a MADtv skit and they were married in 1999. Douglas filed for divorce in October 2014 and it was approved in 2017.

When she filmed the DVD commentary for the Family Guy episode "Stewie Kills Lois," Borstein joked about naming her baby Stewie. She and Douglas have a son and a daughter.

Borstein has been a longtime advocate for the National Hemophilia Foundation.

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Career

Borstein performed in improv at the ACME Comedy Theater, where she met her writing partner and future husband Jackson Douglas. Borstein left an advertising agency – where she had written print ads for Barbie – for a full-time writer shortly after starting to work on the animated film Casper and Pinky and the Brain. Borstein appeared on the show Power Rangers Zeo in 1996, while still writing for Casper, as the Queen of the Machine Empire's queen.

Borstein appeared on the third season of the sketch comedy series MADtv in 1997. She appeared on the cast as a featured actress, but was promoted to the repertory in mid-season.

Borstein was best known on MADTV for her character Ms. Swan (owner of the Gorgeous Pretty Nail Salon); her other recurring characters included Ericist Anne, "Stick Chick" Echo, singer Jasmine Wayne-Wayne, lounge singer Shaunda, and Cordo the GAP troll. Borstein would portray Mama Brightling, the show's mean boss.

Borstein met Seth MacFarlane, who was then planning to debut the animated sitcom Family Guy on FOX while working on MADTV. MacFarlane had intended to produce animated shorts for MADTV but decided against releasing a separate story. Borstein, the voice of character Lois Griffin, was cast by MacFarlane. Family Guy was cancelled by the network in 2002 after the show's debut in January 1999, but it returned in 2005. She's also a writer and editor, as well as her role as Lois' voice performer (including a brief appearance as Ms. Swan in a 2005 episode). In 2013, she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for the episode "Lois Comes Out of Her Shell."

Borstein appeared in the WB drama Gilmore Girls in 2000 as Sookie St. James. Sookie appeared in the pilot, but her MADtv contract barred her from continuing in the role. Borstein appeared on Gilmore Girls on several occasions throughout the show's run, first as the harpist Drella and later as Miss Celine.

Ms. Ungermeyer, the school principal in The Lizzie McGuire Film (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 appeared in Bad Santa (2003) and an uncredited cameo as an obnoxious coffee shop patron in Will Ferrell's film Kicking & Screaming (2005). Olive Oyl from Popeye and Betty Boop appears on certain commercials.

Borstein appeared on GSN's Celebrity Blackjack in 2004 as a co-host. On the Comedy Central animated series Drawn Together, she made at least three appearances, one as Lois Griffin.

Borstein was featured as a press secretary in the 2007 sitcom pilot The Thick of It, but the series was not chosen up for broadcast. She appeared in For Christ's Sake, a 2009 film produced by her then husband Jackson Douglas.

Borstein's production company, Crackerpants, Inc., is based in the United States. The DVD Drop Dead Gorgeous (in a Down-to-Earth Bombshell Sort of Way) released in 2007, a video of a live performance at the Alex Theatre with Teddy Towne as the opening act. Borstein reads the poem from one of many female character breakdowns in order to illustrate misogyny in the workplace.

Borstein has appeared in such comedies 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).

Borstein appeared on Showtime's first season as both a writer and supervising producer. She held the position of writer and consultant producer in its second season. Lou Deckner appeared in several episodes of the series, beginning with "But at Last Came a Knock."

In 2012, she appeared as a contestant on IFC's short-lived comedy-driven game show Bunk.

Borstein appeared on the HBO comedy series Getting On, which is a revival of a UK series with the same name. The series has received numerous Primetime Emmy Award nominations and has received positive feedback from readers. From 2013 to 2015, it aired.

Borstein began acting in Susie Myerson's historical comedy-drama collection The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel in 2017, for which she received critical acclaim and two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

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