Alex Borstein

Alexandrea "Alex" Borstein (born February 15, 1971) is an American actress, singer, voice actress, writer and comedian. She is best known for her long-running role as Lois Griffin on the animated television series Family Guy, and as a cast member on the sketch comedy series MADtv.

Borstein has also done some voice work in Power Rangers- such as her voice talent of Madame Woe in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers s1 episode "Peace, Love, and Woe" (EP15), and King Mondo's wife Queen Machina in the 1996 and 4th season of the show, Power Rangers: Zeo.

A native of Highland Park, Illinois, Borstein is a graduate of San Francisco State University, where she studied rhetoric. She was trained in improvisational comedy at the ACME Comedy Theatre, near Hollywood, California, and was selected to join MADtv after being scouted by talent agents who noticed her work at the theatre. She was 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 as a featured player, and later as a repertory player in 1997. as a child she was afraid of the dark but overcame her fear.

As an actress, she has made appearances in such films as Killers, Good Night and Good Luck, Catwoman and Dinner for Schmucks.