Kristen Carroll Wiig (/wɪɡ/; born August 22, 1973) is an American
actress, comedian, writer, producer, and voice actress. She was born
in Canandaigua, New York, and raised in both Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
and Rochester, New York. She later relocated to Los Angeles, where she
broke into comedy as a member of the improvisational comedy troupe The
Groundlings, and made her television debut in 2003.Wiig joined the
cast of Saturday Night Live in 2005, and the following year, she
appeared in the Christmas comedy film Unaccompanied Minors. After
appearing in a series of supporting roles in comedy films such as
Knocked Up (2007), Adventureland (2009), Whip It (2009), and Paul
(2011), she starred in, and co-wrote the screenplay for the comedy
film Bridesmaids (2011), which was both critically and commercially
successful. The film earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for
Best Actress â€" Musical or Comedy, as well as nominations for the
BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and a Screen
Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a
Cast.Wiig provided her voice for the animated franchises Despicable Me
(2010â€"17) and How to Train Your Dragon (2010â€"19), and was also
nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award 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). Wiig's other notable films
include Girl Most Likely (2012), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
(2013), The Skeleton Twins (2014), Welcome to Me (2014), The Diary of
a Teenage Girl (2015), The Martian (2015), Ghostbusters (2016),
Downsizing (2017), Mother! (2017), and Where'd You Go, Bernadette
(2019).
actress, comedian, writer, producer, and voice actress. She was born
in Canandaigua, New York, and raised in both Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
and Rochester, New York. She later relocated to Los Angeles, where she
broke into comedy as a member of the improvisational comedy troupe The
Groundlings, and made her television debut in 2003.Wiig joined the
cast of Saturday Night Live in 2005, and the following year, she
appeared in the Christmas comedy film Unaccompanied Minors. After
appearing in a series of supporting roles in comedy films such as
Knocked Up (2007), Adventureland (2009), Whip It (2009), and Paul
(2011), she starred in, and co-wrote the screenplay for the comedy
film Bridesmaids (2011), which was both critically and commercially
successful. The film earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for
Best Actress â€" Musical or Comedy, as well as nominations for the
BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and a Screen
Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a
Cast.Wiig provided her voice for the animated franchises Despicable Me
(2010â€"17) and How to Train Your Dragon (2010â€"19), and was also
nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award 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). Wiig's other notable films
include Girl Most Likely (2012), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
(2013), The Skeleton Twins (2014), Welcome to Me (2014), The Diary of
a Teenage Girl (2015), The Martian (2015), Ghostbusters (2016),
Downsizing (2017), Mother! (2017), and Where'd You Go, Bernadette
(2019).
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