29 Facts About Alex Borstein

Alexandrea Borstein was born on February 15,1973 and is an American actress, comedian, writer, and producer.

Alex Borstein is best known for voicing Lois Griffin in the animated comedy series Family Guy, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award.

Alex Borstein gained further acclaim for starring as Susie Myerson in the comedy-drama series The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, which earned her two Primetime Emmy Awards.

Alex Borstein was born on February 15,1973 in Highland Park, Illinois, a city north of Chicago.

Alex Borstein was raised in Deerfield, Illinois, before her family moved to Northridge, California, a neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Alex Borstein has stated that she is of Hungarian and Mongolian descent.

Alex Borstein's maternal grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary, and immigrated to the United States after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

Alex Borstein is a graduate of San Francisco State University, where she studied rhetoric.

Alex Borstein trained in improvisational comedy at the ACME Comedy Theater, near Hollywood, where she met her writing partner and future husband Jackson Douglas.

In 1996, while still writing for Casper, Alex Borstein worked on the show Power Rangers Zeo as the voice of Queen Machina, the queen of the Machine Empire.

In 1997, Alex Borstein became a cast member on the third season of the sketch comedy show MADtv after being scouted by talent agents.

Alex Borstein originally joined the cast as a featured player, but was upgraded to the repertory mid-season.

Alex Borstein was best known on MADtv for her character Ms.

Alex Borstein 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, Alex Borstein was cast as Sookie St James in the WB drama Gilmore Girls.

Alex Borstein portrayed Sookie in the pilot but her MADtv contract prevented her from continuing in the role.

Alex Borstein made recurring appearances on Gilmore Girls throughout the show's run, first as the harpist Drella and later as the stylist Miss Celine.

Alex Borstein was a co-host of GSN's Celebrity Blackjack in 2004.

Alex Borstein made at least three guest appearances, once as Lois Griffin, on the Comedy Central animated program Drawn Together.

Alex 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.

Alex Borstein was seen in the 2009 comedy For Christ's Sake, which was directed by her then husband Jackson Douglas.

Alex Borstein has made several supporting appearances in such comedic films as Killers, Dinner for Schmucks, Ted, ParaNorman, A Million Ways to Die in the West, and The Angry Birds Movie.

In 2010, Alex Borstein joined the first season staff of the Showtime comedy-drama series Shameless, as a writer and supervising producer.

Alex Borstein appeared as a comedian contestant on IFC's short-lived comedy-driven game show Bunk in 2012.

Alex Borstein starred as Dawn Forchette on the HBO comedy series Getting On, which is a remake of a UK series with the same name.

From 2017 to 2023, Alex Borstein starred as Susie Myerson in the Amazon Prime Video historical comedy-drama series The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, for which she received significant critical acclaim and won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

Alex Borstein met actor and writer Jackson Douglas while she was studying improv at the ACME Comedy Theatre.

Alex Borstein was pregnant while she recorded the DVD commentary for the Family Guy episode "Stewie Kills Lois"; she joked about naming her baby Stewie.

Alex Borstein, who is a carrier of hemophilia herself, is a longtime advocate for the National Hemophilia Foundation.