Kristen Wiig

Kristen Wiig

Known for
Acting
Born
August 22, 1973 (age 53)
Birthplace
Canandaigua, New York, USA

Biography

Kristen Carroll Wiig (born August 22, 1973) is an American actress, voice actress, writer, producer, and comedian. She is known for her work as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 2005 to 2012. She is a member of improvisational comedy troupe The Groundlings. She had recurring roles on Arrested Development, The Spoils of Babylon, The Spoils Before Dying, and the series MacGruber (2021) on Paramount+. She's also appeared in television series including Flight of the Conchords, 30 Rock and Portlandia. She's also appeared in several films including Knocked Up, The Brothers Solomon, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Whip It, Extract, Date Night, Adventureland, MacGruber, Bridesmaids, All Good Things, Friends with Kids, Girl Most Likely, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Skeleton Twins, The Martian, Ghostbusters (2016), Downsizing, Wonder Woman 1984, and Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar. She is the voice of Ruffnut Thorston in the film series How to Train Your Dragon, Miss Hattie and Lucy Wilde in the film series Despicable Me, Lola Bunny in The Looney Tunes Show, and Jenny Hart in Bless the Harts.

Known For

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Filmography

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Epiphany

Epiphany

Movie · as Favorite Ives

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Cut Off

Cut Off

Movie · as Bijou Bismol

2026
Masters of the Universe poster

Masters of the Universe

Movie · as Roboto (voice)

2026
Lorne poster

Lorne

Movie · as Self

2026
Sia: Nostalgic for the Present poster

Sia: Nostalgic for the Present

Movie

2025
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music poster

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

Movie · as Self

2025
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert poster

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert

Movie · as Self, Herself

2025
Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie poster

Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie

Movie · as Vera

2025
Good Hang with Amy Poehler poster

Good Hang with Amy Poehler

TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep

2024
Despicable Me 4 poster

Despicable Me 4

Movie · as Lucy (voice)

2024
Will & Harper poster

Will & Harper

Movie · as Self

2024
An SNL Thanksgiving poster

An SNL Thanksgiving

Movie · as (archive footage)

2024
Palm Royale poster

Palm Royale

TV · as Maxine Dellacorte · 20 eps

2024
Sausage Party: Foodtopia poster

Sausage Party: Foodtopia

TV · as Brenda (voice) · 16 eps

2023
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love poster

Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love

Movie · as Self - Guest

2023
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter poster

Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2021
Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar poster

Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar

Movie · as Star / Sharon Gordon Fisherman

2021
A Boy Called Christmas poster

A Boy Called Christmas

Movie · as Aunt Carlotta

2021
MacGruber poster

MacGruber

TV · as Vicki St. Elmo · 8 eps

2020
Wonder Woman 1984 poster

Wonder Woman 1984

Movie · as Barbara Minerva

2020
The Drew Barrymore Show poster

The Drew Barrymore Show

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2019
Where'd You Go, Bernadette poster

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Movie · as Audrey

2019
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World poster

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

Movie · as Ruffnut (voice)

2019
Bless the Harts poster

Bless the Harts

TV · as Jenny Hart (voice) · 34 eps

2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show poster

The Kelly Clarkson Show

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2018
The Royal Wedding Live with Cord and Tish! poster

The Royal Wedding Live with Cord and Tish!

Movie · as Sir Albert Langham-Kingsley

2018
Bobs Not Birthday

Bobs Not Birthday

Movie · as Lucy

2017
Downsizing poster

Downsizing

Movie · as Audrey Safranek

2017
Despicable Me 3 poster

Despicable Me 3

Movie · as Lucy (voice)

2017
mother! poster

mother!

Movie · as Herald

2017
Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later poster

Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later

TV · as Courtney · 1 ep

2017
Big Mouth poster

Big Mouth

TV · as Jessi's Vagina (voice) · 3 eps

2017
Nobodies poster

Nobodies

TV · as Kristen Wiig · 2 eps

2016
Sausage Party poster

Sausage Party

Movie · as Brenda (voice)

2016
Masterminds poster

Masterminds

Movie · as Kelly Campbell

2016
Ghostbusters poster

Ghostbusters

Movie · as Erin Gilbert

2016
Zoolander 2 poster

Zoolander 2

Movie · as Alexanya Atoz

2016
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem poster

The 4%: Film's Gender Problem

Movie · as Self

2016
Lightningface poster

Lightningface

Movie · as Katherine (voice)

2015
The Diary of a Teenage Girl poster

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Movie · as Charlotte Worthington

2015
Welcome to Me poster

Welcome to Me

Movie · as Alice Klieg

2015
Nasty Baby poster

Nasty Baby

Movie · as Polly

2015
The Martian poster

The Martian

Movie · as Annie Montrose

2015
A Deadly Adoption poster

A Deadly Adoption

Movie · as Sarah Benson

2015
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards poster

The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards

Movie · as Monica

2015
Unity poster

Unity

Movie · as Narrator (voice)

2015
Miss Famous

Miss Famous

Movie · as Monica

2015
The Spoils Before Dying poster

The Spoils Before Dying

TV · as Delores O'Dell · 6 eps

2015
ARES: live poster

ARES: live

TV · as Annie Montrose · 6 eps

2015
Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp poster

Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp

TV · as Courtney · 3 eps

2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert poster

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep

2014
How to Train Your Dragon 2 poster

How to Train Your Dragon 2

Movie · as Ruffnut (voice)

2014
Hateship Loveship poster

Hateship Loveship

Movie · as Johanna Parry

2014
The Skeleton Twins poster

The Skeleton Twins

Movie · as Maggie Dean

2014
The Spoils of Babylon poster

The Spoils of Babylon

TV · as Cynthia Morehouse · 6 eps

2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers poster

Late Night with Seth Meyers

TV · as Self, Self - Guest · 2 eps

2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors poster

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

TV · as Self · 2 eps

2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon poster

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

TV · as Self, Self - Guest · 4 eps

2013
Girl Most Likely poster

Girl Most Likely

Movie · as Imogene

2013
Despicable Me 2 poster

Despicable Me 2

Movie · as Lucy (voice)

2013
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues poster

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

Movie · as Chani Lastnamé

2013
Her poster

Her

Movie · as SexyKitten (voice)

2013
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty poster

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Movie · as Cheryl Melhoff

2013
Drunk History poster

Drunk History

TV · as Patty Hearst · 1 ep

2013
Circus Halligalli poster

Circus Halligalli

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2012
Friends with Kids poster

Friends with Kids

Movie · as Missy

2012
Revenge for Jolly! poster

Revenge for Jolly!

Movie · as Angela

2012
The Secret Policeman's Ball poster

The Secret Policeman's Ball

Movie · as Self

2012
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee poster

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2012
The Minions

The Minions

TV · as Lucy · 8 eps

2011
Paul poster

Paul

Movie · as Ruth Buggs

2011
Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury poster

Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury

Movie · as Ruffnut (voice)

2011
Bridesmaids poster

Bridesmaids

Movie · as Annie

2011
Inside Portlandia

Inside Portlandia

Movie · as Self

2011
Kristen Wiig's Global Warming Solution

Kristen Wiig's Global Warming Solution

Movie

2011
The Looney Tunes Show poster

The Looney Tunes Show

TV · as Lola Bunny (voice) · 52 eps

2011
Portlandia poster

Portlandia

TV · as Gathy · 1 ep

2010
How to Train Your Dragon poster

How to Train Your Dragon

Movie · as Ruffnut (voice)

2010
Despicable Me poster

Despicable Me

Movie · as Miss Hattie (voice)

2010
Date Night poster

Date Night

Movie · as Haley Sullivan

2010
MacGruber poster

MacGruber

Movie · as Vicki

2010
All Good Things poster

All Good Things

Movie · as Lauren Fleck

2010
Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon poster

Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon

Movie · as Ruffnut Thorston (voice)

2010
Saturday Night poster

Saturday Night

Movie · as Self

2010
The Women of SNL poster

The Women of SNL

Movie · as Various (archive footage)

2010
Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again

Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again

Movie · as Self

2010
Ugly Americans poster

Ugly Americans

TV · as Tristan (voice) · 1 ep

2010
Funny or Die Presents poster

Funny or Die Presents

TV · as Loretta · 1 ep

2009
Whip It poster

Whip It

Movie · as Maggie Mayhem

2009
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs poster

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Movie · as Pudgy Beaver Mom (voice)

2009
Extract poster

Extract

Movie · as Suzie

2009
Adventureland poster

Adventureland

Movie · as Paulette

2009
One Night Only poster

One Night Only

Movie · as Karen

2009
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas poster

SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas

Movie · as Gilly / Two A-Holes (archive footage)

2009
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler poster

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler

Movie · as Various (archive footage)

2009
Extract: Mike Judge's Secret Recipe poster

Extract: Mike Judge's Secret Recipe

Movie · as Self

2009
The Cleveland Show poster

The Cleveland Show

TV · 2 eps

2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen poster

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

TV · as Self - Guest · 4 eps

2009
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon poster

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep

2008
Ghost Town poster

Ghost Town

Movie · as Surgeon

2008
Semi-Pro poster

Semi-Pro

Movie · as Bear Handler

2008
Forgetting Sarah Marshall poster

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Movie · as Yoga Instructor

2008
Pretty Bird poster

Pretty Bird

Movie · as Mandy Riddle

2008
Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday poster

Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday

TV · 9 eps

2007
The Brothers Solomon poster

The Brothers Solomon

Movie · as Janine

2007
Knocked Up poster

Knocked Up

Movie · as Jill

2007
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story poster

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Movie · as Edith

2007
Meet Bill poster

Meet Bill

Movie · as Jane Whittman

2007
The Shooting AKA Dear Sister

The Shooting AKA Dear Sister

Movie · as The Sister

2007
Flight of the Conchords poster

Flight of the Conchords

TV · as Brahbrah · 1 ep

2007
The Graham Norton Show poster

The Graham Norton Show

TV · as Self · 3 eps

2006
The Enigma with a Stigma poster

The Enigma with a Stigma

Movie · as Tux Shop Employee

2006
Unaccompanied Minors poster

Unaccompanied Minors

Movie · as Carole Malone

2006
30 Rock poster

30 Rock

TV · as Candace Van Der Shark · 1 ep

2004
Life, Death & Mini-Golf poster

Life, Death & Mini-Golf

Movie · as Debbie

2004
June poster

June

Movie · as Funky Venice Friendette

2003
Arrested Development poster

Arrested Development

TV · as Young Lucille Bluth · 7 eps

2003
I'm with Her poster

I'm with Her

TV · as Kristy · 1 ep

2003
The Joe Schmo Show poster

The Joe Schmo Show

TV · as Dr. Pat · 8 eps

2000
Carnata

Carnata

Movie

1999
Tumbleweeds poster

Tumbleweeds

Movie · as (uncredited)

1999
SpongeBob SquarePants poster

SpongeBob SquarePants

TV · as Madame Hagfish (voice) · 1 ep

1996
The Daily Show poster

The Daily Show

TV · as Self · 1 ep

1995
The Drew Carey Show poster

The Drew Carey Show

TV · as Sandy · 1 ep

1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien poster

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep

1993
Raw poster

Raw

TV · as Vicki Gloria St. Elmo · 1 ep

1989
The Simpsons poster

The Simpsons

TV · as Annie Crawford (voice), Calliope Juniper (voice) · 1 ep

1981
Entertainment Tonight poster

Entertainment Tonight

TV · as Self · 2 eps

1975
Saturday Night Live poster

Saturday Night Live

TV · as Self - Various Characters, Self - Cameo (uncredited), Self - Host, Self (uncredited) · 135 eps

1969
Sesame Street poster

Sesame Street

TV · as Self · 1 ep

1953
The Oscars poster

The Oscars

TV · as Self, Self - Presenter · 1 ep