She originally joined the cast as a featured player, but was upgraded to the repertory mid-season.īorstein was best known on MADtv for her character Ms. In 1997, Borstein became a cast member on the third season of the sketch comedy show MADtv. 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. 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. Career 1993–1998: Career beginnings and MADtv īorstein trained in improv at the ACME Comedy Theater, where she met her writing partner and future husband Jackson Douglas. Borstein attended San Francisco State University. Her maternal grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary and immigrated to the United States after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
Borstein has stated that she is of Hungarian and Mongolian descent. Her parents, Irv and Judy Borstein, are both mental health professionals. She was raised in Deerfield, Illinois, before her family moved to California. She became a repertory player mid-season.īorstein was born in Highland Park, Illinois, a city north of Chicago. Borstein was also 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 in 1997 as a featured player. She was trained in improvisational comedy at the ACME Comedy Theatre, near Hollywood, California, and was selected to join the cast of MADtv after being scouted by talent agents.
Borstein is a graduate of San Francisco State University, where she studied rhetoric.
She graduated from Chatsworth High School in 1989. She had supporting roles in numerous films, including The Lizzie McGuire Movie, Catwoman (2004), Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), The Lookout (2007), Dinner for Schmucks (2010), Ted (2012), ParaNorman (2012), and A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014).īorstein spent her childhood in Deerfield, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, before moving with her family to Northridge, California, a neighborhood of Los Angeles. Maisel (2017–present), which has earned her two Primetime Emmy Awards.īorstein also had lead roles as various characters on the sketch comedy series MADtv (1997–2009), as well as Dawn Forchette in the medical comedy series Getting On (2013–2015). She gained acclaim for starring as Susie Myerson in the comedy-drama series The Marvelous Mrs. Borstein voices Lois Griffin on the animated comedy television series Family Guy (1999–present), and won a Primetime Emmy Award for the role.
Alexandrea Borstein (born February 15, 1971) is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer.
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