Kristen Wiig

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Birthday: 22 August 1973, Canandaigua, New York, USA
Birth Name: Kristen Carroll Wiig
Height: 165 cm
Kristen Carroll Wiig was born on August 22, 1973 in Canandaigua, New York, to Laurie J. (Johnston), an artist, and Jon J. Wiig, a lake marina manager. She is of Norwegian (from her paternal grandfather), Irish, English, and Scottish descent. The family moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, before settling in Rochester, New York. When Wiig was 9 years o... Show more »
Kristen Carroll Wiig was born on August 22, 1973 in Canandaigua, New York, to Laurie J. (Johnston), an artist, and Jon J. Wiig, a lake marina manager. She is of Norwegian (from her paternal grandfather), Irish, English, and Scottish descent. The family moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, before settling in Rochester, New York. When Wiig was 9 years old, her parents divorced and she lived with her mother and older brother Erik.After graduating from Brighton High School in Rochester, Wiig attended the University of Arizona as an art student. She took her first acting class, as an elective, and was soon encouraged by her teacher to pursue acting. Years later, she moved to Los Angeles and Wiig worked as a main company member of the Los Angeles-based improv and sketch-comedy troupe The Groundlings. As a Groundlings alumna, she s the ranks of such SNL cast mates as Maya Rudolph, Will Ferrell, Phil Hartman, and Jon Lovitz.Wiig made her big-screen debut to universal high praise as Katherine Heigl's ive-aggressive boss in Judd Apatow's smash-hit comedy Knocked Up (2007). Additional film credits include Drew Barrymore's directorial debut, Whip It (2009), starring Ellen Page; Greg Mottola's Adventureland (2009), with Ryan Reynolds, Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg; David Koepp's Ghost Town (2008), with Ricky Gervais; and Jake Kasdan's Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), another Apatow-produced film, in which she starred opposite John C. Reilly. She has also guest-starred on the Emmy-winning NBC series 30 Rock (2006), the HBO series Bored to Death (2009), with Jason Schwartzman, and Flight of the Conchords (2007).Wiig ed the cast of Saturday Night Live (1975) in 2008, and was known for playing such memorable characters as the excitable Target clerk, Lawrence Welk singer Doonese, the hilarious one-upper Penelope, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Suze Orman, among others. Wiig earned two Emmy nominations for Outstanding ing Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on the show. She left the show in the spring of 2012.In 2011, Wiig co-wrote and starred in Bridesmaids (2011), along with Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, and Rose Byrne. The film was a box office hit and won several awards, plus earned two Oscar nominations (Best ing Actress and Best Original Screenplay), and two Golden Globes nominations (Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical and Best Actress).Wiig also appeared in such notable films as Greg Mottola's Paul (2011), opposite Simon Pegg and Nick Frost; Andrew Jarecki's All Good Things (2010), opposite Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst and Frank Langella; DreamWorks Animation's How to Train Your Dragon (2010), with Gerard Butler and Jay Baruchel; the Universal Pictures' animated feature film Despicable Me (2010), starring Steve Carell and Jason Segel; and Jennifer Westfeldt's Friends with Kids (2011), opposite Jon Hamm, Megan Fox, Adam Scott, Maya Rudolph and Westfeldt. Show less «
Kristen Wiig's FILMOGRAPHY
Drunk History - Season 6
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - Season 5
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The Tonight Show Fallon - Season 7
ep.184
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette [Audio: Russian]
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Bless the Harts - Season 1
ep.10
The Late Late Show with James Corden - Season 5
ep.422
The Simpsons - Season 30
ep.23
The Graham Norton Show - Season 23
ep.13
The Graham Norton Show - Season 24
ep.20
SpongeBob SquarePants - Season 12
ep.25
Saturday Night Live - Season 44
ep.21
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee - Season 10
ep.12
Big Mouth - Season 2
ep.10
Portlandia - Season 8
ep.10
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - Season 4
ep.18
Nobodies - Season 2
ep.12
The Royal Wedding Live with Cord and Tish!
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The Late Late Show with James Corden - Season 4
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The Simpsons - Season 29
ep.21
The Graham Norton Show - Season 22
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The Graham Norton Show - Season 21
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The Daily Show - Season 23
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Annabelle: Creation
IMDb: 7
2017
109 min
Country: United States
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Twelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into ...