Why Alex Borstein Is Exactly Where She Wants To Be

BuzzFeed - The actor/writer/comedian says her HBO show Getting On is “what I’ve always wanted.” Alex Borstein (left) and Laurie Metcalf on Getting On. HBO Alex Borstein is used to being off to the side, in a writers' room, or in a recording booth by herself. Yet she's currently starring on HBO's Getting On as Dawn, a deluded, oddly sexed-up, earnest, officious, sometimes kind nurse in the geriatric wing of a rundown hospital. For years, she has been an on-camera actor (MADtv, Good Night, and Good Luck, Shameless); a voice actor (Lois on Family Guy); and a writer (Family Guy, Shameless). Will Scheffer, who with his husband, Mark V. Olsen, adapted Getting On from the BBC original — they were also the creators of Big Love — did not undersell Borstein's talents in a telephone interview. "I told Alex at the premiere, I grabbed her and I said: 'I've worked with Ellen Burstyn, I've worked with Sissy Spacek, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloë Sevign