Kristen Wiig

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Kristen Wiig

Born Kristen Carroll Wiig
22 August 1973 (1973-08-22) (age 35)[1]
Canandaigua, New York[2]
Official website

Kristen Carroll Wiig (IPA: [wɪg], enPR: wĭg, pronounced like "wig";[3] born August 22, 1973) is an American actress, comedienne, and impressionist, whose most visible work is as a cast member of Saturday Night Live (SNL). She is a member of The Groundlings,[2][4] and also appeared in the first season of Spike TV's The Joe Schmo Show.

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Biography

Personal life

Wiig was born in Canandaigua, New York. At the age of three her family moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, afterwards moving to Rochester, New York, where she remained until the end of high school.[3] She graduated from Brighton High School in 1991 and attended the University of Arizona with a major in art. She was hired as a graphic artist by a plastic surgery clinic (showing clientele what they would look like after surgery), but left for Los Angeles before ever starting the job to pursue an acting whim. In Los Angeles she joined The Groundlings, working "odd jobs" while living on Rochester Avenue.[3]

Wiig is divorced from fellow actor Hayes Hargrove.

SNL sketch work

Wiig debuted after the start of SNL's 31st season on November 12, 2005.[4] In Wiig's first sketch, she played the wife of Jason Sudeikis; the two accidentally pick up an escaped murderer (Jason Lee), unwittingly giving the murderer carte blanche to break into their home and violate their blind niece.

Since then, Wiig has had such recurring roles as:

  • Junice, an odd girl with an abnormally large forehead from a sister act on a Lawrence Welk Show skit.
  • Judy Grimes, the nervous, just kidding Travel reporter.
  • An unfocused Target employee known as "The Target Lady".
  • The female half of the "Two A-Holes" (with Jason Sudeikis as the male half)
  • Jean, the Introvert (with Will Forte as Neil and several hosts [Lindsay Lohan, Annette Bening, and Rainn Wilson] as the third introvert).
  • Catherine, Dakota Fanning's mother in "The Dakota Fanning Show"
  • Aunt Linda, Amy Poehler's fictitious irritable aunt who bashes the latest films for trivial flaws
  • Michelle Dison, a divorced reporter who makes inappropriate romantic overtures to her female interviewees (Jaime Pressly and Scarlett Johansson)
  • Penelope, a habitual braggart/compulsive liar who tells elaborate stories to one-up those around her. At the end of the skit Penelope usually does something she says she can do, such as turn invisible and grow a foot-long beard, making you wonder if she is really telling the truth about everything else. She usually ends her sentence saying "...so...".
  • A woman who sits on her porch swing and reveals strange things she's done over the day with another person (played by the host). The character is known as "The Porch Sitter"
  • Sue, a woman who is overly excited to throw a surprise party
  • Stasia, a twitchy and awkward teen who disrupts her parents' dinner parties and frequently uses the phrase "I said WE!"

Wiig's celebrity impersonations include:

Wiig survived an SNL budget cut,[5] becoming a full member of the repertory cast at the beginning of the show's 32nd season.

She also played the love interest of Justin Timberlake in the popular SNL Digital Short "Dick in a Box". Wiig also introduced a new Weekend Update correspondent named Judy Grimes, a nervous woman who constantly repeats the phrase, "Just kidding", often in a long series of words.

Other work

Wiig appears in the 2007 films The Brothers Solomon, Meet Bill, Knocked Up, and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. In The Brothers Solomon she teams up with Saturday Night Live cast member Will Forte, joins Bill Hader in Knocked Up, and also joins Jason Sudeikis in Meet Bill. Kristen was also a regular performer in The Perks, a featured show at the Empty Stage Comedy Theatre whose run ended in 2000.

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
2004 Life, Death, and Mini-Golf Debbie
2006 The Enigma with a Stigma Tux Shop Employee
Unaccompanied Minors Carole Malone
2007 Knocked Up Jill
Meet Bill Jane Whitman
The Brothers Solomon Janine
Walk Hard Edith Cox
2008 Semi-Pro Bear Handler
Forgetting Sarah Marshall Yoga Instructor
Pretty Bird Mandy
Ghost Town Surgeon
2009 Adventureland Paulette awaiting release
Whip It! Malice in Wonderland filming
Extract TBA filming

References

  1. ^ Kristen Wiig at the Internet Movie Database
  2. ^ a b Official website
  3. ^ a b c Interview with Letterman
  4. ^ a b They're live on SNL, a December 2005 USA Today article
  5. ^ That '70s Show: Saturday Night Live in the post-Tina Fey, YouTube unknown from The Village Voice

External links

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Current Saturday Night Live cast members
Repertory players
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