Alex Borstein

Alexandrea Alex Borstein born February 15 1973 is an American actress singer voice actress writer and comedian She is best known for her longrunning 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 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 As an actress she has made appearances in such films as The Lizzie McGuire Movie Catwoman and Dinner for Schmucks