Kristen Wiig

At 51 years old, Kristen Wiig has this physical status:

Kristen Carroll Wiig (born August 22, 1973) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer.

She was born in Canandaia, New York, and she was raised in both Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Rochester, New York.

She then migrated to Los Angeles, where she burst into comedy as a member of the improvisational comedy group The Groundlings, and made her television debut in 2003. Wiig appeared in Saturday Night Live in 2005 and the following year, she appeared in Unaccompanied Minorities, a Christmas comedy series.

She appeared in and co-wrote the screenplay for Bridesmaids (2011), which was both critically and commercially lucrative. She had appeared in a number of supporting roles in comedy films including Knocked Up (2007), Adventureland (2009), Whip It (2009), and Paul (2011).

She was nominated for Best Actress – Musical or Comedy, as well as BAFTA and Academy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her role as Cynthia Morehouse in the comedy miniseries The Spoils of Babylon (2014).

Girl Most Likely (2012), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013), Welcome to Me (2014), The Martian (2015), Downsizing (2017), and Mother! (2017).

Early life

Wiig is the niece of artist Jon Wiig, who owned a lake marina in Western New York, and Laurie (née Johnston) who worked with him. Erika, she has an older brother. Her father has Norwegian and Irish roots, as well as her mother, who is both English and Scottish. Wiig is a nickname that comes from Vik, a Norwegian province in Sogn og Fjordane. Gunnar Wiig, Kristen's paternal grandfather, migrated from Norway to the United States as an infant and then grew up in Rochester, New York, where he served as a prolific broadcaster for the Rochester Red Wings baseball team and later became an executive at WHEC radio, WHEC-TV, and WROC-TV.

Wiig and her family moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, at the age of three, and she attended Nitrauer Elementary School and Manheim Township Middle School until eighth grade. When she was 13, she and her family moved to Rochester, where she attended Allendale Columbia School for ninth and tenth grades and graduated from Brighton High School.

Wiig attended Roanoke College but then moved to Rochester. She attended community college and a three-month outdoor-living program. At the time, she had no aspirations to be successful. Wiig was a majoring in art at the University of Arizona. The instructor suggested that she continue acting after taking an acting class to fulfill a course requirement. She was hired by a plastic surgery clinic to pull postsurgery bodies, but the day before work began, she decided to live in Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.

Personal life

From 2005 to 2009, Wiig was married to actor Hayes Hargrove and dated Fabrizio Moretti from 2011 to 2013. She became engaged to actor Avi Rothman in early 2019, after three years of dating. twins, a boy, Shiloh, and a teenage girl, Luna, were born in January 2020. In the credits of Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar, the twins' names were revealed. Wiig and Rothman married in February 2021, the first time in 2021. They live in Pasadena, California.

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Career

Wiig moved to Los Angeles to act while doing odd jobs to help herself. She appeared with Empty Stage Comedy Theatre and The Groundlings. She felt that improvisation was a greater match than acting, and being a part of the comedy club developed her skills. She appeared on Spike TV's The Joe Schmo Show, a parody of reality television, where she played Dr. Pat, a quack marriage consultant. She applied for Mad TV. When she was at The Groundlings, Wiig's manager encouraged her to record an audition tape for Saturday Night Live. On part of her audition tape, she appeared on Target Lady. On November 12, 2005, she debuted on SNL shortly before season 31, on November 12, 2005. At the start of season 32 in 2006, she survived an SNL budget cut and became a full cast member.

For her appearance on SNL (2009 to 2012), she was nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. The 2009 Christmas special on Wiig featured new sketches from her character Gilly and snippets from older SNL videos. She was listed in Entertainment Weekly's list of 15 Great Performers for her various impersonations on SNL (December 2008) and EW's list of the 25 Funniest Women in Hollywood (April 2009). Lola Bunny appeared in the series The Looney Tunes Show from 2011 to 2014.

Wiig made her film debut in the 2006 Christmas film Unaccompanied Minors and appeared in Judd Apatow's 2007 film Knocked Up as a passive-aggressive assistant. She appeared in Jake Kasdan's Walk Hard, another Apatow-produced film. She appeared in several studio comedies that had varying degrees of success between 2008 and 2010. In the 2008 comedy Semi-Pro, she made a cameo appearance as Bear Trainer Girl, reuniting with SNL alum Will Ferrell. In Forgetting Sarah Marshall's Ghost Town, she served as a yoga instructor and a self-involved surgeon.

In Greg Mottola's 2009 coming-of-age dramedy Adventureland, voiced a beaver mom in the animated adventure film Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, she appeared as the wife of a flavoring-extracts company owner in Mike Judge's Extract, and she appeared as the wife of a flavoring-extracts firm owner. She appeared in Andrew Jarecki's 2010 drama All Good Things, starred Will Forte and Ryan Phillippe in MacGruber, and appeared in two big-budget animated films, Despicable Me and How to Train Your Dragon, which launched two highly successful film franchises.

Wiig's career was on a turning point in 2011's history. The comedy Bridesmaids, co-created by Universal Pictures in the spring, was released in North America by Universal Pictures with critical acclaim, grossing US$167 million in North America and US$280 million globally. She played a single woman with a string of mishaps after being asked to be her best friend's maid of honor in a top-billed role. "Ms. Wiig's lanky-limbed blonde who evokes Meg Ryan stretched along Olive Oyl lines, keeps her hair bouncing and occasionally bunching," the New York Times described. Ms. Wiig, a long-serving cast member of Saturday Night Live, and Ms. Mumolo, a veteran of the Los Angeles comedy troupe The Groundlings, know what female moviegoers want: honest laughs, not solely about women. Wiig was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical, as well as the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for her role in the film. She appeared in Friends with Kids, the romantic drama in which she appeared in one half of a sex-obsessed couple, opposite Bridemaids collaborator Maya Rudolph. It received favorable feedback, including "sharp, shrewd, and amusing," and was a hit in limited editions.

Wiig, a leading and supporting role in the 2010s, was a well-known celebrity in Hollywood. Jolly!, the little-seen dramedy that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, was her first 2012 film debut. She played Annette Bening in the comedy Girl Most Likely as a playwright who stages a suicide in the hopes of obtaining her ex back, but she ended up in the custody of her gambling-addict mother. Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 20% rating based on 85 reviews, with the site's consensus: "Growing witless and disappointingly dull, Girl Most Likely strands Kristen Wiig in a blandly hollow foray into scattershot sitcom territory."

She appeared on Saturday Night Live as a cast member on episode 37, which aired on May 19, 2012, and was hosted by Mick Jagger. Amy Poehler, Chris Kattan, Chris Parnell, Will Forte, Rachel Dratch, and Rachel Dratch were among the show's senior citizens, as well as Steve Martin and Jon Hamm. She has since returned to host the program several times.

Wiig reprised her role in Despicable Me 2, which was released in June 2013, as well as Sexy Kitten's role in the critically acclaimed sci-fi romance Drama Her (2013). It polarized followers and was a modest success, with her portraying the titular protagonist and coworker of the adventure drama The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (also 2013). Stiller and Wiig's "sweet, mellow chemistry," according to the New York Daily News, Peter Travers of Rolling Stone found her to be "lovely, low-key" in the film, which he described as "uniquely funny and unexpectedly tender." Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, her second film in 2013 was the comedy sequel in which she worked with Will Ferrell and Steve Carell, one of her regular collaborators. Ferrell appeared in The Spoils of Babylon (2014), its co-episode sequel The Spoils Before Dying (2015), as well as the made-for-television film A Deadly Adoption (2015). Although Joshua Alston of The A.V. is the speaker, he was astonish. For her appearance in The Spoils of Babylon, the club gave A Deadly Adoption a B+ and said that everything in the film is "right physically," and that Ferrell and Wiig are close to where they should be tonally."

Hateship, Loveship (2004), Alice Munro's new theatrically released script, was based on Alice Munro's 2001 short story "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage." She played a woman who must move to a new place to start working as a housekeeper for an elderly man who needs assistance with housekeeping. As part of a mixed overall reaction, analysts said that Wiig's "vibrant show is almost worth the admission price—and it has to be, because Hateship Loveship has no one else going for it." She starred with Bill Hader in Craig Johnson's dramedy The Skeleton Twins in 2014 as two distant twins reunited with the possibility of ending their relationship. The Skeleton Twins was a great show for the two SNL veterans to show how their comic shorthand also works well in a marginal setting," the Globe and Mail said.

Wiig danced alongside child dancer Maddie Ziegler in Sia's 2014 debut "Chandelier" at the 2015 Grammy Awards. In May 2015, the dramatic comedy Welcome to Me was performed in a select theater to a warm critical response; in it, Wiig played a multi-millionaire with borderline personality disorder who used her newfound wealth to write and perform in an autobiographical talk show. "A transfixing central performance by Kristen Wiig holds Welcome to Me together and compensates for its uneven stretches" was Rotten Tomatoes' consensus. Wiig's next film, The Diary of a Teenager Girl, a dramedy about a woman whose boyfriend starts a sexual affair with her daughter, portrayed her as a woman whose boyfriend begins a sexual relationship with her daughter. The film, Like Welcome to Me, received a limited theatrical release and was warmly received by critics. In 2015, she appeared as the director of media relations for NASA in the hit sci-fi film The Martian, opposite Matt Damon, and as a family practitioner more interested in having a baby than having a boyfriend in the Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Silva's black comedy Nasty Baby.

Wiig performed the role of a villain and the "Queen of Haute Couture" in the comedy Zoolander 2 (2016) alongside Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, and Will Ferrell. She revealed that she spent about eight hours designing and removing her makeup each day for the bizarre appearance of her character. Zoolander 2 was a critical and commercial flop. Wiig appeared on the much-disguised all-female remake Ghostbusters (also 2016) as an author who works with other paranormal enthusiasts to avoid an outsider from being a victim. It cost more than US$240 million, which was a result of US$229 million. She also played a hot dog bun in the animated comedy Sausage Party in 2016, and she played a woman plotting a robbery in Masterminds in 2016.

Wiig appeared in the films Mother! in 2017 and she sang of Despicable Me 3! (her first horror film), directed by Darren Aronofsky; and Downsizing, reuniting with Damon. She had intended to appear and executive produce with Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter of Apple and Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine, but she had to cancel due to a new untitled 30-minute comedy series that was later cancelled. Cheetah appeared in Wonder Woman 1984, a feminist film that was released in 2020, and also appeared in the Netflix film A Boy Called Christmas.

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Awards and nominations

• She was named one of PETA's Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrities of 2011.
• She is part of Time's 2012 list of The 100 Most Influential People in the World.