She was 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 lent her voice to the animated franchises How to Train Your Dragon (2010–2019) and Despicable Me (2010–2024). It earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress – Musical or Comedy, nominations for the BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast. After a series of supporting roles in comedy films such as Knocked Up (2007), Adventureland (2009), Whip It (2009) and Paul (2011), she co-wrote and starred in the comedy film Bridesmaids (2011), which was critically and commercially successful. Wiig joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 2005 and appeared in the Christmas comedy film Unaccompanied Minors the next year. She moved to Los Angeles, where she joined the improvisational comedy troupe The Groundlings and made her television debut as Dr. First breaking through as a performer with the Los Angeles comedy troupe The Groundlings, Wiig achieved nationwide stardom during her seven-season tenure on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2005 to 2012.īorn in Canandaigua, New York, she was raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and later Rochester, New York. Kristen Carroll Wiig ( / w ɪ ɡ/ born August 22, 1973) is an American actress, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and singer.
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