10 THINGS YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT ALEX BORSTEIN
SATIRICAL animated sitcom Family Guy is continuing its astonishing 21-season run, with Alex Borstein once again voicing nasally matriarch Lois Griffin. Since 2017, Alex, 51, has pulled double duty by also performing on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. The TV scenestealer has won two Emmy Awards for her portrayal of wisecracking manager Susie Myerson on the series. Here are ten things you don’t know about the Illinois native.
1 She is of Hungarian and Mongolian descent.
2 The bleeding disorder hemophilia runs in her family.
3 She took her father’s car for a joyride when she was 15 and recalls, “It
The voice of Family Guy’s Lois also has on-camera roles was a Datsun 200SX — and I did not know how to drive a stick shift.”
4 She grew up in California, where she and her Hollywood High School classmates would sometimes spend their lunchtime watching actors make their handprints in cement at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.
5 One of her go-to karaoke songs is Tina Turner’s Private Dancer.
6 She was a staff writer for the cartoon series Pinky and the Brain.
7 Before launching her on-camera career, she worked at an ad agency and created copy for Mattel’s Barbie doll print ad campaigns.
8 She claims her MADtv character Ms. Swan, which was slammed by critics as a racist Asian stereotype, was inspired by one of her grandmothers and quirky Icelandic singer Björk.
9 She played Sookie St. James in the unaired Gilmore Girls pilot. But her MADtv contract prevented her from shooting the series, so she was replaced by Melissa
McCarthy.
10 She owns a Yorkshire terrier named Arturo.