Alexandrea "Alex" Borstein (born February 15, 1973), also known as "a.bo", is an Emmy- and Screen Actors Guild Award-nominated American actress, singer, voice actress, writer and comedian. She is best known for her roles on the FOX sketch comedy series MADtv and as Lois Griffin in the animated series Family Guy.
Borstein was born in Highland Park, Illinois, a suburb north of the city of Chicago. Her parents, Judy and Irving Borstein, are both men...
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Alexandrea "Alex" Borstein (born February 15, 1973), also known as "a.bo", is an Emmy- and Screen Actors Guild Award-nominated American actress, singer, voice actress, writer and comedian. She is best known for her roles on the FOX sketch comedy series MADtv and as Lois Griffin in the animated series Family Guy.
Borstein was born in Highland Park, Illinois, a suburb north of the city of Chicago. Her parents, Judy and Irving Borstein, are both mental health professionals. She was raised in a Jewish family with roots in Germany, Hungary, Angola, Poland, Mongolia, and Russia. She attended San Francisco State University in San Francisco, California.
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...
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