Alex Borstein Biography

Alex Borstein (born as Alexandrea Borstein) is an American actress, writer, producer, and comedian. She won a Primetime Emmy Award for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series, and for also voicing the role of Lois Griffin on the animated comedy series Family Guy, where she also won a Primetime Emmy Award from multiple nominations.

Alex Borstein Age And Height

Alexandrea Borstein is 48 years of age as of 2019. Her height is estimated to be 1.52m.

Alex Borstein Family

Borstein was born in Highland Park, Illinois, a city north of Chicago to Irv and Judy Borstein, who are both mental health professionals. She is Jewish. Borstein has two older brothers.

Alex Borstein Early Life

Borstein was born in Highland Park, Illinois, a city north of Chicago. She was raised in Deerfield, Illinois before her family moved to California Borstein has two older brothers. Her parents, Irv and Judy Borstein, are both mental health professionals.

Borstein is Jewish. Her father is from Atlanta, Georgia. Her mother, a Holocaust survivor, was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary, and moved to the United States after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Borstein attended San Francisco State University.

Alex Borstein Personal Life

Borstein met actor and writer Jackson Douglas while studying improv at the ACME Comedy Theatre. Douglas proposed to her during the taping of a MADtv skit, and they were married in 1999. Douglas filed for divorce in October 2014.

Borstein was pregnant when she recorded the DVD commentary for the Family Guy episode “Stewie Kills Lois”, and joked about naming her baby Stewie.

She and Douglas have a son, Barnaby Borstein Douglas (born September 8, 2008), and a daughter, Henrietta Borstein Douglas (born October 1, 2012).

Alex Borstein Spouse|kids

Alex Borstein was married in 1999 to Jackson Douglas who is an American actress, writer, producer, and comedian.

They both had two children; Henrietta Borstein Douglas, Barnaby Borstein Douglas. They later divorced in 2014.

Alex Borstein Career

1993–1998: Career beginnings and MADtv

Borstein trained in improv at the ACME Comedy Theater, where she met her writing partner and future husband Jackson Douglas.

Shortly after they began working together on the animated series Casper and Pinky and the Brain, Borstein left her position at an ad agency – where she had written print ads for Barbie – to become a full-time writer. In 1996, while still writing for Casper, Borstein worked on the show Power Rangers Zeo as the voice of Queen Machina, the queen of the Machine Empire.

In 1997, Borstein became a cast member on the third season of the sketch comedy show MADtv. She originally joined the cast as a featured player but was upgraded to the repertory mid-season.

Borstein was best known on MADtv for her character Ms. Swan; her other recurring characters included Eracist Anne, “Stick Chick” Echo, singer Jasmine Wayne-Wayne, child prodigy Karen Goddard, lounge singer Shaunda, News at Six outside-the-studio reporters Sue Naperville, and Cordo the GAP troll.

When Seth Green made recurring appearances on the show as mean boss Mr. Brightling, Borstein would play his mother, Mama Brightling.

1999–2009: Further success and Family Guy

While working on MADtv, Borstein met Seth MacFarlane, who was then preparing to launch the animated sitcom Family Guy on FOX. MacFarlane was originally supposed to create animated shorts for MADtv but declined in favor of creating an independent series.

MacFarlane cast Borstein as the voice of character Lois Griffin. After the show’s debut in January 1999, Family Guy was canceled by the network in 2002 but returned in 2005.

As well as her role as the voice performer for Lois and several other characters (including a brief appearance as Ms. Swan in a 2005 episode), she is also a producer and staff writer. She was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for the episode “Lois Comes Out of Her Shell” in 2013.

In 2000, Borstein was cast as Sookie St. James in the WB drama Gilmore Girls. She portrayed Sookie in the pilot, but her MADtv contract prevented her from continuing in the role, which was recast with Melissa McCarthy. Borstein made recurring appearances on Gilmore Girls throughout the show’s run, first as the harpist Drella and later as the stylist Miss Celine.

As a film actress, she played the school principal in The Lizzie McGuire Movie (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 also had a small role in the movie Bad Santa (2003) and an uncredited cameo as an obnoxious coffee shop patron in the Will Ferrell movie Kicking & Screaming (2005). On some commercials, she sometimes voices Olive Oyl from Popeye and Betty Boop.

Borstein was a co-host of GSN’s Celebrity Blackjack in 2004. She made at least three guest appearances, once as Lois Griffin, on the Comedy Central animated program Drawn Together.

Borstein was cast as a press secretary in the 2007 sitcom pilot The Thick of It, but the series was not picked up for broadcast. She was seen in the 2009 comedy For Christ’s Sake, which was directed by her real-life husband Jackson Douglas.

Borstein’s production company is called Crackerpants, Inc. In 2007, they released the DVD Drop Dead Gorgeous (in a Down-to-Earth Bombshell Sort of Way), a recording of a live performance at the Alex Theatre, with opening act Teddy Towne. The title comes from one of many actual female character breakdowns Borstein reads from to illustrate sexism in the industry.

2010–present: Getting On and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

In 2010, Borstein joined the first season staff of the Showtime comedy-drama series Shameless, as a writer and supervising producer. In its second season, she held the position of writer and consulting producer. She also guest-starred as Lou Deckner in numerous episodes of the series, beginning in the first season episode “But at Last Came a Knock.”

She also appeared as a comedian contestant on IFC’s short-lived comedy-driven game show Bunk in 2012.

Borstein later starred as Dawn Forchette on the HBO comedy series Getting On, which is a remake of a UK series of the same name. The series has gained positive reviews and earned multiple Primetime Emmy Award nominations. It aired from 2013 to 2015.

In 2017, Borstein began starring as Susie Myerson in the historical comedy-drama series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, for which she received significant critical acclaim and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

Alex Borstein Net Worth

Her net worth is estimated to be  $24 million.