Actress of The Week: Kristen Wiig

 

Kristen Carroll Wiig (/wɪɡ/; lahir 22 Agustus 1973) adalah seorang aktris, komedian, dan penulis Amerika. Lahir di Canandaigua, New York, ia dibesarkan di Lancaster, Pennsylvania dan Rochester, New York. Dia pindah ke Los Angeles, di mana dia bergabung dengan rombongan komedi improvisasi The Groundlings dan membuat debut televisinya sebagai Dr. Pat di The Joe Schmo Show (2003).

Wiig bergabung dengan pemeran Saturday Night Live pada tahun 2005 dan muncul dalam film komedi Natal Unaccompanied Minors tahun berikutnya. Setelah serangkaian peran pendukung dalam film komedi seperti Knocked Up (2007), Adventureland (2009), Whip It (2009) dan Paul (2011), ia ikut menulis dan membintangi film komedi Bridesmaids (2011), yang berjudul kritis dan sukses secara komersial. Ini membuatnya mendapatkan nominasi Golden Globe Award untuk Aktris Terbaik – Musikal atau Komedi, nominasi untuk BAFTA dan Academy Award untuk Skenario Asli Terbaik, dan nominasi Screen Actors Guild Award untuk Penampilan Luar Biasa oleh Pemeran.

Wiig meminjamkan suaranya ke franchise animasi Despicable Me (2010–2017) dan How to Train Your Dragon (2010–2019). Dia dinominasikan untuk Primetime Emmy Award untuk Aktris Utama Terbaik dalam Serial Mini atau Film untuk perannya sebagai Cynthia Morehouse dalam miniseri komedi The Spoils of Babylon (2014). Kredit filmnya yang lain termasuk Girl Most Likely (2012), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013), The Skeleton Twins (2014), Welcome to Me (2014), The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015), The Martian (2015). ), Ghostbusters (2016), Downsizing (2017), Mother! (2017), Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019), dan Wonder Woman 1984 (2020).

Wiig menikah dengan aktor Hayes Hargrove dari 2005 hingga 2009, dan berkencan dengan drummer The Strokes Fabrizio Moretti dari 2011 hingga 2013.  Pada awal 2019, setelah tiga tahun berpacaran, ia bertunangan dengan aktor Avi Rothman. Pada Januari 2020, mereka memiliki anak kembar, laki-laki, Shiloh, dan perempuan, Luna, melalui ibu pengganti. Nama si kembar terungkap dalam kredit Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar. Pada Februari 2021, Wiig menegaskan bahwa dia dan Rothman telah menikah.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Melvin Goes to Dinner	Extra
2006	Unaccompanied Minors	Carole Malone
	The Enigma with a Stigma	Tux Shop Employee
2007	Knocked Up	Jill
	Meet Bill	Jane Whitman
	The Brothers Solomon	Janine
	Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story	Edith Cox
2008	Semi-Pro	Bear Handler
	Forgetting Sarah Marshall	Yoga Instructor
	Pretty Bird	Mandy
	Ghost Town	Surgeon
2009	Adventureland	Paulette
	Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs	Pudgy Beaver Mom	Voice
	Whip It	Maggie Mayhem
	Extract	Suzie Reynolds
2010	How to Train Your Dragon	Ruffnut Thorston	Voice
	Date Night	Haley Sullivan
	MacGruber	Vicki St. Elmo
	Despicable Me	Miss Hattie	Voice
	All Good Things	Lauren Fleck
2011	Paul	Ruth Buggs
	Bridesmaids	Annie Walker	Also writer
	Friends with Kids	Missy
2012	Revenge for Jolly!	Angela
	Girl Most Likely	Imogene Duncan	Also executive producer
2013	Despicable Me 2	Agent Lucy Wilde	Voice
	Her	SexyKitten	Voice
	The Secret Life of Walter Mitty	Cheryl Melhoff
	Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues	Chani
	Hateship, Loveship	Johanna Parry
2014	The Skeleton Twins	Maggie
	How to Train Your Dragon 2	Ruffnut Thorston	Voice
	Welcome to Me	Alice Klieg	Also producer
2015	The Diary of a Teenage Girl	Charlotte
	Nasty Baby	Polly
	The Martian	Annie Montrose
2016	Zoolander 2	Alexanya Atoz / Katinka
	Ghostbusters	Dr. Erin Gilbert
	Sausage Party	Brenda	Voice
	Masterminds	Kelly Campbell
	Lightningface	Katherine	Voice; short film
2017	Despicable Me 3	Agent Lucy Wilde	Voice
	Downsizing	Audrey Safranek
	Mother!	Herald
2019	How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World	Ruffnut Thorston	Voice
	Where'd You Go, Bernadette	Audrey Griffin
2020	Wonder Woman 1984	Barbara Ann Minerva / Cheetah
2021	Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar	Star / Sharon Gordon Fisherman	Also writer and producer
	A Boy Called Christmas	Aunt Carlotta

 

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	The Joe Schmo Show	Dr. Pat	9 episodes
2004	I'm with Her	Kristy	Episode: "The Heartbreak Kid"
2004	The Drew Carey Show	Sandy	Episode: "House of the Rising Son-in-Law"
2005–12	Saturday Night Live	Various	135 episodes
2007	30 Rock	Candace Van der Shark	Episode: "Somebody to Love"
2009	Flight of the Conchords	Brahbrah	Episode: "Love Is a Weapon of Choice"
2009–10	Bored to Death	Jennifer Gladwell	3 episodes
2010	Ugly Americans	Tristan	Voice; episode: "So, You Want to Be a Vampire?"
2010	The Cleveland Show	Mrs. Stapleton	Voice; episode: "The Curious Case of Jr. Working at The Stool"
2011–14	The Looney Tunes Show	Lola Bunny	Voice; 25 episodes
2011	The Simpsons	Calliope Juniper	Voice; episode: "Flaming Moe"
2011	SpongeBob SquarePants	Madame Hag Fish	Voice; episode: "The Curse of the Hex"
2012	Portlandia	Gathy	Episode: "Cat Nap"
2013	The Simpsons	Annie Crawford	Voice; episode: "Homerland"
2013–20	Saturday Night Live	Herself (host)	4 episodes
2013	Arrested Development	Young Lucille Bluth	7 episodes
2013	Drunk History	Patty Hearst	Episode: "San Francisco"
2014	The Spoils of Babylon	Cynthia Morehouse	6 episodes
2015	A Deadly Adoption	Sarah Benson	Television film
2015	The Spoils Before Dying	Delores O'Dell	6 episodes
2015	Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp	Courtney	3 episodes
2017	The Last Man on Earth	Pamela Brinton	5 episodes
2017–18	Nobodies	Herself	2 episodes
2017	Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later	Courtney	Episode: "Tigerclaw"
2017–21	Big Mouth	Jessi's Genitals	Voice; 4 episodes
2018	The Royal Wedding Live with Cord & Tish!	Sir Albert Langham-Kingsley	HBO event coverage
2019–21	Bless the Harts	Jenny Hart, Maykay Bueller	Voice; 34 episodes
2021	MacGruber	Vicki St. Elmo