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Kristen Wiig

Kristen Wiig is an actress, comedian, and writer probably best known for her time on "Saturday Night Live" and for her starring role in "Bridesmaids."

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Kristen Wiig was born on August 22, 1973, in Canandaigua, NY. Wiig's family moved to Lancaster, PA, when she was 3 years old before settling in Rochester, New York. Her parents divorced when she was 9 years old, and Wiig lived with her mother and older brother Erik, who is mentally disabled. Even as a child, Wiig had a quirky sense of humor. She later recalled of her youth, "I used to carry my dad's empty guitar case around the neighborhood because I wanted people to think I played the guitar. I would put Flintstones vitamins in it in case I got tired, so I could pop some and keep walking."


After graduating from Rochester's Brighton High School, Wiig enrolled at the University of Arizona as an art student. It was there that Wiig, a natural introvert, enrolled in her first acting class. "I was terrified," she said. "I don't really like talking in front of groups of people. Through high school if ever I had to give a speech, I would try to get out of it or not go to school that day ... But I took the class, and I liked it, and the teacher was really encouraging for me to keep doing it."


After graduation, Wiig got a job at a plastic surgery clinic, where she was supposed to produce drawings of clients' post-surgery bodies. The day before she was to start, she found herself alone at the house she shared with roommates in Tucson. "I looked in the mirror and was like, 'OK, if you could do anything, what would it be?' And I thought, 'I would move to L.A. Just try to act,'" she recalled. "The next day, the Jetta was packed and I was gone, freaking out the whole way."


After arriving in Los Angeles, Kristen Wiig took a job folding clothes at the store Anthropologie. The string of odd jobs she held over the next few years included selling peaches at a farmer's market, catering Hollywood events, babysitting, working in a floral design shop and selling hot dogs at the mall. She was unsatisfied with traditional acting classes. Then a co-worker took her to a show at the Groundlings, the celebrated improv troupe that launched the careers of "Saturday Night Live" stars like Will Ferrell and Maya Rudolph. Wiig was hooked. "That place changed my life," she said.


Wiig auditioned and got a spot on the Groundlings. Even on a stage full of funny people, Kristen Wiig soon established herself as a standout. She made audiences laugh with characters she'd later bring to "SNL," like the over-enthusiastic Target clerk and the crotchety film reviewer Aunt Linda. "SNL" producer Lorne Michaels caught wind of her talent, and asked her to audition for the program. She was hired midway through the show's 31st season, moving from Los Angeles to New York City on a week's notice.


Kristen Wiig debuted on "SNL" on November 12, 2005. Her characters -- including the one-upping Penelope, squirrelly Gilly, and spot-on impressions of financial advisor Suze Orman and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi -- became fan favorites. Within two years Wiig established a reputation as the hardest-working comedian on the show, appearing in more sketches per episode than any other cast member. When Amy Poehler left "SNL" in November 2008, Wiig became the most senior female cast member on the program.


On the heels of her success at "SNL," Wiig made her film debut as a scene-stealing passive-aggressive television executive in 2007's "Knocked Up." She then went on to star in well-received films like "Adventureland," "Extract," Drew Barrymore's directorial debut "Whip It," and "MacGruber," a spinoff of an "SNL" sketch starring Wiig and fellow cast member Will Forte.


In 2011, she played the lead in the smash hit Judd Apatow movie, "Bridesmaids," as Annie Walker. She portrays a woman whose life is unraveling as she tries to be Maid of Honor to her best friend. "Bridesmaids" became the highest grossing R-rated female comedy of all time in the domestic box office.


Wiig left "SNL" in 2012, and has roles in a number of upcoming movies.


She won an Emmy nomination for her work on "SNL" in 2009, the same year that Entertainment Weekly named her one of the 25 Funniest Actresses in Hollywood. "It's a mystery to me what makes people laugh," Wiig says. "I just try to be as real as possible."



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