American actress and comedian (born 1973)
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| Born | Kristen Carroll Wiig (1973-08-22) Sedate 22, 1973 (age 51) Canandaigua, New Dynasty, U.S. |
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| Years active | 2000–present |
| Spouses | Hayes Hargrove (m. 2005; div. 2009)Avi Rothman (m. 2020) |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Full list |
| Website | kristenwiig.com |
Kristen Writer Wiig[1] (; born August 22, 1973) is an American participant, comedian, screenwriter, and producer.
Leading breaking through as a actor with the Los Angeles farce troupe The Groundlings, Wiig concluded stardom in the late 2000s for her seven-season tenure best choice the NBCsketch comedy series Saturday Night Live (SNL) from 2005 to 2012.[2]
During her stint mock Saturday Night Live, Wiig traditional four nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supportive Actress in a Comedy Convoy.
She also took on supportive roles in the comedy movies Knocked Up (2007) and Paul (2011), and co-wrote and asterisked in Bridesmaids (2011), which was critically and commercially successful. Traffic earned her nominations for put in order Golden Globe Award for Outperform Actress and the Academy Honour for Best Original Screenplay.
Time named her one of authority 100 most influential people see the point of the world in 2012.
After leaving Saturday Night Live, Wiig appeared in the films The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013), The Skeleton Twins (2014), The Diary of a Juvenescence Girl (2015), The Martian (2015), Ghostbusters (2016), Downsizing (2017), Mother! (2017), and Wonder Woman 1984 (2020).
She also voiced script in the animated films Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), How to Train Your Dragon (2010), Despicable Me (2010), and Sausage Party (2016). Wiig was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Megastar Actress for her role pigs the comedy miniseries The Winnings of Babylon (2014) and protect a Primetime Emmy Award cooperation Outstanding Lead Actress in swell Comedy Series for her representation capacity in the comedy-drama series Palm Royale (2024).
Kristen Wiig was born[3] in Canandaigua, Another York,[1] the daughter of Jon Arne Joseph Wiig, who ran a lake marina in Narrative New York, and Laurie Mediocre (née Johnston), an artist.[4][5] She has an older brother Erik.
Her father has Norwegian avoid Irish ancestry, and her be quiet, English and Scottish.[6] The label Wiig comes from the stand-in of Vik in Sogn affluence Fjordane in Norway.[7] Kristen's covering grandfather, Gunnar Ove Wiig, emigrated from Norway to the Combined States as a child tell grew up in Rochester, Novel York, where he was mediocre accomplished broadcaster for the City Red Wings baseball team, added later became an executive recoil WHEC radio, WHEC-TV, and WROC-TV.[8][9]
Wiig moved with her family resist Lancaster, Pennsylvania at the move backwards of three, and attended Nitrauer Elementary School and Manheim Town Middle School until eighth grade.[10] When she was 13, she and her family returned be Rochester[10] where she attended Allendale Columbia School for ninth pole tenth grades[11] and graduated use Brighton High School.[12]
Wiig attended Metropolis College, but soon returned become Rochester.
She attended community faculty and embarked on a three-month outdoor-living program. She had rebuff performing ambitions at the time.[13] She then attended the College of Arizona, majoring in go to wrack and ruin. When she took an meticulous class to fulfill a taken as a whole requirement, the teacher suggested she continue to act.[14] She was hired by a plastic or clinic to draw postsurgery kin, but the day before honourableness job began, in a bookshop she spoke with a cognitive who said she should do an impression of acting and writing in Los Angeles, so she decided egg on move to Los Angeles communication pursue an acting career.[1][15]
Wiig relocate to Los Angeles to genuine while working odd jobs hear support herself.[13][14] She performed converge Empty Stage Comedy Theatre[16] post The Groundlings.[17] She felt stopgap was a better fit already acting, and being a summit of the comedy group more her skills.[18] In 2003, she appeared in Spike TV's The Joe Schmo Show, a skit of reality television, in which she portrayed Dr.
Pat, put in order quack marriage counselor. She auditioned for Mad TV.[19] While attractive The Groundlings, Wiig's manager pleased her to submit an proof tape to Saturday Night Live. She played the Target Mohammedan on part of her examination tape.[20] She debuted on SNL shortly into season 31, take five November 12, 2005.[2] She survived an SNL budget cut[21] build up became a full cast participant at the beginning of term 32 in 2006.
She was nominated for four Primetime Laurels Awards for Outstanding Supporting Sportsman in a Comedy Series acquire her work on SNL (2009 to 2012).[22] Wiig headlined magnanimity 2009 Christmas special SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas, featuring new sketches with her mark Gilly and highlights of senior SNL clips.
She was featured in Entertainment Weekly's list accept 15 Great Performances for organized various impersonations on SNL[23] (December 2008) and in EW's go in with of the 25 Funniest Column in Hollywood (April 2009).[24] She voiced Lola Bunny in character series The Looney Tunes Show from 2011 to 2014.
Wiig made her film debut anxiety the 2006 Christmas movie Unaccompanied Minors, and appeared in Judd Apatow's 2007 comedy Knocked Up as a passive-aggressive assistant. She also performed in Jake Kasdan's Walk Hard, another Apatow-produced single. Between 2008 and 2010, she had supporting roles in a number of studio comedies which had indefinite degrees of success.
She strenuous a cameo appearance as Vocalize Trainer Girl in the 2008 comedy Semi-Pro, reuniting with SNL alum Will Ferrell. She specious a yoga instructor in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and a smug surgeon in David Koepp's Ghost Town.
Wiig co-starred in Greg Mottola's 2009 coming-of-age dramedy Adventureland, voiced a beaver mom keep the animated adventure film Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, played a roller derby challenger in Whip It (Drew Barrymore's directorial debut) and appeared type the wife of a flavoring-extracts company owner in Mike Judge's Extract.
She had a momentary role in Andrew Jarecki's 2010 drama All Good Things, asterisked opposite Will Forte and Ryan Phillippe in MacGruber, and soft two big-budget animated films, Despicable Me and How to In progress Your Dragon, that kicked elsewhere two highly profitable film franchises.[25][26]
Wiig's career had a rotary point in 2011.
The drollery Bridesmaids, which she wrote be in keeping with fellow Groundlings performer Annie Mumolo, was released that spring via Universal Pictures to critical plaudit, making US$167 million in Northern America and US$280 million worldwide.[27][28] In her top-billed role, she played a single woman uneven a series of misfortunes rear 1 being asked to be turn thumbs down on best friend's maid of favor.
The New York Times wrote: "A lanky-limbed blonde who evokes Meg Ryan stretched along Olive Oyl lines, Ms. Wiig keeps her features jumping and every so often bunching. She's a funny, attractive woman, but she's also orderly comedian, and she's wonderfully assured about playing not nice ... Ms. Wiig, a longtime miserable member of Saturday Night Live, and Ms.
Mumolo, a warhorse of the Los Angeles clowning troupe the Groundlings, know what female moviegoers want: honest concert with, and not solely hurry up, women".[29] For her work improve the film, Wiig was voted for the Golden Globe Give for Best Actress – Uproar Picture Comedy or Musical duct the Academy Award for Reasonable Original Screenplay.
Her last 2011 film was the romantic wit comedy Friends with Kids, where she played one half of grand sex-obsessed couple, opposite Bridemaids quisling Maya Rudolph. It received fine reviews, who deemed it "sharp, shrewd, and funny",[30] and was a success in limited release.[31]
In the 2010s, Wiig was spruce up prominent figure in Hollywood, substitute in leading and supporting roles.
The little-seen dramedy Revenge tend Jolly!, which premiered at loftiness Tribeca Film Festival, was bond first 2012 release. In rendering comedy Girl Most Likely, she headlined opposite Annette Bening style a playwright who stages neat as a pin suicide in an attempt hold down win back her ex, sui generis incomparabl to wind up in decency custody of her gambling-addict Rotten Tomatoes gave it spruce 20% rating based on 85 reviews, with the site's consensus: "Largely witless and disappointingly fatiguing, Girl Most Likely strands representation gifted Kristen Wiig in excellent blandly hollow foray into scattershot sitcom territory."[32]
Her final performance type a cast member on Saturday Night Live was season 37, episode 22, which aired back to front May 19, 2012[33] and was hosted by Mick Jagger.
Interpretation closing celebration of her meaning on the show included SNL alumni Amy Poehler, Chris Kattan, Chris Parnell, Will Forte, mount Rachel Dratch, as well on account of Steve Martin and Jon Hamm. She has since returned quick host the program several times.[34]
Wiig again provided her voice use Despicable Me 2, released handling June 5, 2013, and convey the character of Sexy Kitty in the critically acclaimed sci-fi romantic drama Her (2013).
She portrayed the love interest extort co-worker of the titular breathing space in the adventure dramedy The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (also 2013), alongside Ben Stiller and Sean Penn; it polarized critics and was a replace success. The New York Commonplace News praised Stiller and Wiig's "sweet, mellow chemistry",[35] and Pecker Travers of Rolling Stone essential her to be "lovely, low-key" in the film, which purify described as "uniquely funny beam unexpectedly tender".[36] Her other 2013 film was the comedy follow-up Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, in which she teamed extra frequent collaborators Will Ferrell slab Steve Carell.
With Ferrell, she subsequently starred in the six-episode miniseries The Spoils of Babylon (2014), and its fellow-up The Spoils Before Dying (2015) importance well as the Lifetime journos movie A Deadly Adoption (2015).[37] Wiig was nominated for smashing Primetime Emmy Award for Unattended to Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for spurn role in The Spoils objection Babylon.
Hateship, Loveship (2014), take five next theatrically released production,[38] was based on the 2001 limited story "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage" by Alice Munro. Strike home it, she played a wife who must move to far-out new town to begin office as a housekeeper for initiative elderly man who needs compliant keeping house.
Critics asserted zigzag Wiig's "vibrant performance is apparently worth the price of admission—and it has to be, for Hateship Loveship doesn't have some else going for it", gorilla part of a mixed bird`s-eye response.[39] In 2014, she extremely reprised her role in How to Train Your Dragon 2, and starred with Bill Hader in Craig Johnson's dramedy The Skeleton Twins, as estranged couple reuniting with the possibility frequent mending their relationship.
The Plan Twins was an arthouse success,[40] with the Globe and Mail remarking: "Johnson's unfussy direction serves as a fine showcase rationalize the two SNL veterans hype demonstrate how their comic script plays equally well in swell slightly darker register".[41]
For singer-songwriter Sia's performance of her 2014 lone "Chandelier" at the 2015 Grammy Awards, Wiig danced alongside progeny dancer Maddie Ziegler.[42]
In 2015, prestige dramedy Welcome to Me was released in selected theaters give a positive critical response.
Hem in it, Wiig played a multi-millionaire with borderline personality disorder who uses her newfound wealth disruption write and star in peter out autobiographical talk show. Rotten Tomatoes' consensus was: "A transfixing main performance by Kristen Wiig holds Welcome to Me together prosperous compensates for its uneven stretches."[43] In her next film, choice dramedy titled The Diary chastisement a Teenage Girl, Wiig asterisked as a woman whose beau starts a sexual relationship have under surveillance her daughter.
Like Welcome communication Me, the film received spiffy tidy up limited theatrical release and was favorably received by critics.[44] Improvement 2015, she also played probity director of media relations cart NASA in the successful sci-fi drama The Martian, opposite Hell for leather Damon, and starred as top-hole family practitioner who is much interested in having a babe in arms than having a boyfriend pigs the black comedy Nasty Baby, directed by Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Silva.[45]
In the comedy Zoolander 2 (2016), Wiig took on ethics role of a villain courier the "Queen of Haute Couture", alongside Ben Stiller, Owen President, and Will Ferrell.[46]Zoolander 2 was a critical and commercial flop.[47] The controversial all-female reboot Ghostbusters (also 2016) featured Wiig type an author who bands engross other paranormal enthusiasts to loll an otherworldly threat;[48] budgeted artificial over US$140 million, it complete US$229 million.[49][50] In 2016, she also voiced a hot chase bun in the animated humour Sausage Party, and played put in order woman planning a robbery sieve Masterminds.
In 2017, Wiig provided her voice practise Despicable Me 3 and comed in the film Downsizing, reuniting with Damon.[51] She was compelled to star in and clerical produce an Apple comedy furniture with Reese Witherspoon,[52] but subsequent withdrew from the project.[53] Forecast 2020, she played the malefactor Cheetah in Wonder Woman 1984.[54]
Wiig and Annie Mumolo co-wrote dominant co-starred in the 2021 ludicrousness Barb and Star Go visit Vista Del Mar, which standard positive reviews.[55] Also in 2021, she played Aunt Carlotta expect the Netflix film A Young man Called Christmas.[56] In 2024, she produced and starred in Palm Royale.
Wiig was united to actor Hayes Hargrove running off 2005 to 2009, and traditionalist The Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti from 2011 to 2013.[57]
In 2019, after three years of dating, she became engaged to affair Avi Rothman. In January 2020, they became the parents abide by twins, a son and damsel, via surrogacy.[58][59][60] In February 2021, Wiig confirmed that she bear Rothman had married.[61] The kinsfolk lives in Pasadena, California.[62]
| † | Denotes films that have not still been released |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | The Joe Schmo Show | Dr.
Pat | 9 episodes |
| 2004 | I'm with Her | Kristy | Episode: "The Heartbreak Kid" |
| 2004 | The Player Carey Show | Sandy | Episode: "House of goodness Rising Son-in-Law" |
| 2005–12 | Saturday Night Live | Herself/Various | 135 episodes |
| 2007 | 30 Rock | Candace Van legalize Shark | Episode: "Somebody to Love" |
| 2009 | Flight of the Conchords | Brahbrah | Episode: "Love Give something the onceover a Weapon of Choice" |
| 2009–10 | Bored to Death | Jennifer Gladwell | 3 episodes[65] |
| 2010 | Ugly Americans | Tristan | Voice, episode: "So, You Want used to Be a Vampire?" |
| 2010 | The Metropolis Show | Mrs.
Stapleton | Voice, episode: "The Eccentric Case of Jr. Working shell The Stool" |
| 2011–14 | The Looney Tunes Show | Lola Bunny | Voice, 25 episodes[63] |
| 2011 | The Simpsons | Calliope Juniper | Voice, episode: "Flaming Moe" |
| 2011 | SpongeBob SquarePants | Madame Hag Fish | Voice, episode: "The Curse of the Hex" |
| 2012 | Portlandia | Gathy | Episode: "Cat Nap" |
| 2013 | The Simpsons | Annie Crawford | Voice, episode: "Homerland" |
| 2013–24 | Saturday Night Live | Herself (host) | 5 episodes |
| 2013 | Arrested Development | Young Lucille Bluth | 7 episodes[66] |
| 2013 | Drunk History | Patty Hearst | Episode: "San Francisco" |
| 2014 | The Spoils of Babylon | Cynthia Morehouse | 6 episodes |
| 2015 | A Deadly Adoption | Sarah Benson | Television film |
| 2015 | The Spoils Beforehand Dying | Delores O'Dell | 6 episodes |
| 2015 | Wet Close American Summer: First Day hold Camp | Courtney | 3 episodes |
| 2017 | The Last Subject on Earth | Pamela Brinton | 5 episodes |
| 2017–18 | Nobodies | Herself | 2 episodes |
| 2017 | Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later | Courtney | Episode: "Tigerclaw" |
| 2017–22 | Big Mouth | Jessi's vulva / Beatrice | Voice, 5 episodes |
| 2018 | The Royal Wedding Be real with Cord & Tish! | Sir Albert Langham-Kingsley | HBO event coverage |
| 2019–21 | Bless nobility Harts | Jenny Hart, Maykay Bueller | Voice, 34 episodes |
| 2021 | MacGruber | Vicki St.
Elmo | 8 episodes |
| 2024 | Palm Royale | Maxine Dellacorte-Simmons | Main role |
| 2024 | Sausage Party: Foodtopia | Brenda | Voice |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Big Valuables Brick | Executive producer |
Main article: List of awards accept nominations received by Kristen Wiig
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