Biography
Alex Borstein is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer best known for her role on the animated comedy series Family Guy, for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award. She received additional recognition for her role as Susie Myerson in the comedy-drama series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which garnered her two Primetime Emmy Awards.
Age
She is 53 years old as of 15 February 2024. SHe was born in 1971 in Highland Park, Illinois, United States.
Family – Education
Her family migrated to Northridge, California, a Los Angeles neighborhood, from Deerfield, Illinois, where she was raised. She graduated from Chatsworth High School in 1989. She has two elder brothers. Her parents, Irv and Judy Borstein, are also mental health specialists. She has indicated that she is of Hungarian, Mongolian, and Jewish heritage. Her father is from Atlanta. Her maternal grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, was born and reared in Budapest, Hungary, and moved to the United States during the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. Borstein graduated from San Francisco State University, where she studied rhetoric.
Wife – Children
Borstein met Jackson Douglas, an actor and writer, while learning improvisation at the ACME Comedy Theatre. Douglas proposed to her during the filming of a MADtv comedy, and they married in 1999. Douglas filed for divorce in October 2014, which was finalized in 2017. Borstein was pregnant when she recorded the DVD commentary for the Family Guy episode “Stewie Kills Lois” and joked about naming her son Stewie. She and Douglas have two children: a son and a daughter.
Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $20 million.
Height
She stands ta a height of 5 feet 0 inches(1.52 m).
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
In the American historical comedy-drama television series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, she played Susie Myerson, the owner of the Gaslight Cafe who subsequently becomes Midge’s manager after seeing her innate potential.
Miriam “Midge” Maisel, a wealthy Jewish-American housewife, embarks on a stand-up comedy career in 1958 after her husband Joel abandons her following a disappointing performance at The Gaslight Cafe. She meets comedian Lenny Bruce and discreetly practices her abilities at the Gaslight Café. Midge experiences discrimination and blacklisting in New York bars, but she eventually gets a chance as the opening act for Shy Baldwin’s tour.
After their divorce, Midge and Joel pursue new relationships and start a nightclub in Chinatown. Midge is fired after casually mentioning Shy’s homosexuality during a set. She becomes the humorous emcee at the Wolford burlesque club, and Lenny Bruce helps her regain her confidence. The plot takes place between the 1960s and the 2000s, with Midge rising to prominence as a comedian while dealing with personal troubles and many marriages.
Bordertown
She has voiced Lois Griffin on Family Guy and various other characters, as well as Janice Buckwald on Bordertown.Bordertown is set in the fictitious town of Mexifornia (on the border between California and Mexico). Mexifornia is based on the town of Calexico in California, which has a similar location and dynamic.The major protagonists are Bud Buckwald and Ernesto Gonzalez.Bud, a border agent, lives at 25200 Cedar Road with his wife Janice Buckwald and their three children, Sanford, Becky, and Gert.Ernesto Gonzalez, an aspiring immigrant and family man who has been in the country for less than ten years, lives next door to him and is pleased to be with his family in the United States of America.
Alex Borstein Getting On
She played Dawn Forchette, the head nurse in the American television comedy series Getting On. Her spouse recently left her, taking her car and pets. She often lets her varied personal and love concerns affect her work performance. She constantly follows the rules and has a tense relationship with Jenna, who unwittingly insults her. She has a problematic relationship with Patsy due to the fact that she slept with him, even though he may be gay. Dawn and Patsy’s connection progresses, and he becomes her boyfriend. She subsequently discovers that she is pregnant, believing Patsy to be the father. Dawn’s ultrasound, however, reveals that she was never pregnant and instead had a blighted ovum.
This finding leads to complications in her relationship with Patsy, and they eventually break up. She then swiftly marries hospital security guard Dennis Beardman, allegedly only to spite Patsy. The series takes place at the Billy Barnes Extended Care Unit of the run-down Mount Palms Memorial Hospital in Long Beach, California. The show chronicles the daily lives of the ward’s staff members, including Dr. Jenna James, the director of medicine; Dawn Forchette, the head nurse; Didi Ortley, a nurse; and Patsy De La Serda, the supervising nurse.
Family Guy
She is a former writer for Family Guy and one of the show’s supervising producers in addition to lending her voice to a number of other characters, including Lois Griffin. Peter Griffin’s wife Lois Patrice Griffin (née Pewterschmidt) is the mother of Meg, Chris, and Stewie Griffin. Along with her family and their anthropomorphic family dog, Brian, Lois resides at 31 Spooner Street. Alex Borstein does the voice of Lois. She was performing live in a Los Angeles stage show and performed a sketch where she played a redhead mother when Seth MacFarlane, the creator of the sitcom, approached her about a possible part on the program. Her cousin’s voice served as the model for the vocal style.
Lois, first portrayed as a devoted housewife and ideal mother, has darker sides than her husband. She enjoys sadomasochism, masquerading like a dominatrix in “Let’s Go to the Hop” and directing Peter to have intercourse with her. She has stated unequivocally that she never intended to be a mother, as seen in “A Fish Out of Water” and “Peter’s Daughter.” Lois’ connection with Meg is complex, given her supporting and destructive character. She is caustic and cruel, but exhibits a slightly gentler side towards Meg in “Call Girl” and is heartbroken by Meg’s apparent death in “Better Off Meg”. In most episodes, Lois displays a non-caring demeanor, expressing no emotion or interest in emotional circumstances and taking delight in the agony of others. She periodically mocks Brian, refuses to spend decent “people money” on him, and purposefully draws attention to Chris in “Jungle Love”.
Movies
♦ 2022 – The Bad Guys
♦ 2021 – Extinct
♦ 2016 – The Angry Birds Movie
♦ 2015 – Love the Coopers
♦ 2014 – A Million Ways to Die in the West
♦ 2012 – Ted
♦ 2012 – ParaNorman
♦ 2010 – Killers
♦ 2010 – Dinner for Schmucks
♦ 2010 – For Christ’s Sake
♦ 2007 – The Lookout
♦ 2006 – Little Man
♦ 2005 – Kicking & Screaming
♦ 2005 – Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
♦ 2005 – Good Night, and Good Luck
♦ 2004 – Seeing Other People
TV Shows
♦ 2023 – Alex Borstein: Corsets & Clown Suits
♦ 2022 – Resident Alien
♦ 2021 – Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens
♦ 2017–2023 – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
♦ 2017 – Animals.
♦ 2016 – Bordertown
♦ 2016 – Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
♦ 2016 – Son of Zorn
♦ 2015 – Life in Pieces
♦ 2015 – Masters of Sex
♦ 2015 – Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship
♦ 2013–2015 – Getting On
♦ 2012–2016 – Workaholics
♦ 2012–2013 – Bunheads
♦ 2012 – Hot in Cleveland
♦ 2012 – Robot Chicken DC Comics Special
♦ 2011–2015 – Shameless
♦ 2011 – Night of the Hurricane
♦ 2009–2013 – The Cleveland Show