Kristen Wiig Movies and Career Information

Kristen Carroll Wiig (born August 22, 1973) is an American film and television actress who currently appears as a cast member on Saturday Night Live. She is a member of improvisational comedy troupe The Groundlings, and has appeared in several films and television series, including MacGruber, Flight of the Conchords, Adventureland, and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Wiig was born in Canandaigua, New York. At the age of three she and her family moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and later on to Rochester, New York, where she remained until she graduated from Brighton High School in 1991. She went on to attend the University of Arizona with a major in art. In Los Angeles she joined The Groundlings, working "odd jobs". Wiig is currently dating actor, writer, and filmmaker Brian Petsos. The couple live in Manhattan together. Before pursuing a career in comedy, Wiig worked a number of jobs including working as a graphic artist in plastic surgery, where she showed patients what they would look like post-surgery. In an interview about the impact Wiig has had on comedy, SNL co-star Jason Sudeikis commented: “She had about thirty lives before she showed up at SNL. She’s had a bunch of crazy