Alex Borstein

Name: Alex Borstein
Date of Birth: February 15, 1971
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Mini-bio: Her family moved to Southern California during the early 1980s. She later moved to San Francisco, where she attended San Francisco State University. She took a job at an ad agency where she wrote prin...( read more)t ads for Barbie.

She started improv classes with the ACME Comedy Theater where she met both her writing partner and her future husband. Alex and her writing partner began to work on the animated series Casper. Shortly after, she left her ad job to become a full time writer. In 1996, while still writing for Casper, Alex worked on the popular TV show Power Rangers Zeo, where she provided the voice of Queen Machina, the queen of the Machine Empire. In 1997 Alex became a cast member on the sketch comedy show MADtv. She is best known for playing Miss Swan, which was based on a combination of the singer Björk and her real life grandmother who was Hungarian-Mongolian.

During her time on MADtv she met Seth MacFarlane who was starting a FOX animated sit-com, Family Guy. Alex started providing the voice of Lois and various others. Alex became engaged to be married when her boyfriend Jackson Douglas proposed to her during the taping of a MADtv skit. She was married in 1999.

In 2000 Alex won the role of "Sookie St. James" in the WB show Gilmore Girls. In the original pilot she played Sookie’s role but was unable to continue once the show was picked up because she was still under contract for MADtv. She was replaced by Melissa McCarthy. Alex instead guest starred in several episodes as the harpist, Drella, in season one. She returned in seasons three and five to play Miss Celine, a middle-aged celebrity fashion advisor. Alex’s husband, Jackson Douglas appears on Gilmore Girls as Jackson Belville, Sookie's husband.

Alex left MADtv in 2002, the same year Family Guy was cancelled from the FOX lineup. Family Guy however returned in 2005 and Alex now remains on as a producer and primary staff writer for the show where she also provides the voices of Lois and various others.

Since Alex left MADtv she has appeared playing roles such the principal in The Lizzie McGuire Movie, the best friend of Halle Berry in Catwoman, and an employee at CBS News in Good Night, and Good Luck.

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Alex Borstein mini-bio: Her family moved to Southern California during the early 1980s. She later moved to San Francisco, where she attended San Francisco State University. She took a job at an ad agency where she wrote print ads for Barbie. She started improv classes with the ACME Comedy Theater where she met both her writing partner and her future husband. Alex and her writing partner began to work on the animated series Casper. Shortly after, she left her ad job to become a full time writer. In 1996, while still writing for Casper, Alex worked on the popular TV show Power Rangers Zeo, where she provided the voice of Queen Machina, the queen of the Machine Empire. In 1997 Alex became a cast member on the sketch comedy show MADtv. She is best known for playing Miss Swan, which was based on a combination of the singer Björk and her real life grandmother who was Hungarian-Mongolian.

During her time on MADtv she met Seth MacFarlane who was starting a FOX animated sit-com, Family Guy. Alex started providing the voice of Lois and various others. Alex became engaged to be married when her boyfriend Jackson Douglas proposed to her during the taping of a MADtv skit. She was married in 1999. In 2000 Alex won the role of "Sookie St. James" in the WB show Gilmore Girls. In the original pilot she played Sookie’s role but was unable to continue once the show was picked up because she was still under contract for MADtv. She was replaced by Melissa McCarthy. Alex instead guest starred in several episodes as the harpist, Drella, in season one. She returned in seasons three and five to play Miss Celine, a middle-aged celebrity fashion advisor. Alex’s husband, Jackson Douglas appears on Gilmore Girls as Jackson Belville, Sookie's husband.

Alex left MADtv in 2002, the same year Family Guy was cancelled from the FOX lineup. Family Guy however returned in 2005 and Alex now remains on as a producer and primary staff writer for the show where she also provides the voices of Lois and various others. Since Alex left MADtv she has appeared playing roles such the principal in The Lizzie McGuire Movie, the best friend of Halle Berry in Catwoman, and an employee at CBS News in Good Night, and Good Luck.

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kirsty1nfc

STEWIES THE BEST

STEWIE RULES

IDC IF ITS LOIS IDC

posted 265 days ago
fagboy169

i rather like snake....snake griffin!!!!....lois...I'LL KILL YOU WOMEN!!!!...i'll take over the world!!!hahaha!!!lol

posted 488 days ago
fagboy169

sooooooo...u dooooo lois....huh?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......huh?!...huh?!....huh?!...come on!!!....lol...well really she's a role model on the show i guess..and family guy is extremely funny...i can't stop laughin when i see it...i wish i could be a character on the show...i would be great!!!....hahahahaha!!!

posted 488 days ago
EMO4EVER

family guy is the best i like peter better

posted 764 days ago
bratzroxkim

you where funny in the lizzie mcguire movie

posted 803 days ago
falloutboyfan101

hey!! just wanna say i LOVE you on MadTV!! that show rox! i loveit when u and will saso go to like the red carpet of w/e and interview all these celebs!

posted 839 days ago