Lois Griffin
fictional character from the Family Guy franchise
Lois Patrice Griffin (née Pewterschmidt) is a fictional character from the American animated television series Family Guy. She is voiced by Alex Borstein and first appeared in the show's pilot episode, "Death Has a Shadow", on January 31, 1999. Writer Seth MacFarlane created and designed Lois after his 1995 student film, The Life of Larry, was picked up by 20th Century Fox for a series order. Lois is the matriarch of the Griffin family. She and her husband Peter have three children: Meg, Chris, and Stewie.
Role in Family Guy
Lois Griffin was born to affluent WASP multibillionaire parents, Carter and Barbara Pewterschmidt. It is revealed in the episode "Family Goy" that her mother is actually a Jewish American Holocaust survivor who concealed her Judaism, and Lois was raised Protestant. Lois and the rest of the Griffins live in the fictional city of Quahog, Rhode Island, which is modeled after Cranston, Rhode Island. Lois speaks with a distinctive nasal New England accent. In the episode "A Lot Going on Upstairs", Lois’s drivers license reveals that her height is 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m).
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