Kristen Wiig
Kristen Wiig
Kristen Carroll Wiig is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer. She is known for her work on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, and such films as Knocked Up, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Paul and Bridesmaids, Girl Most Likely, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, the animated Despicable Me film series, The Skeleton Twins, The Martianand Ghostbusters...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth22 August 1973
CityCanandaigua, NY
CountryUnited States of America
For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me.
There's something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh.
It's a mystery to me what makes people laugh.
I do sort of gravitate towards smaller, indie-type movies.
There are so many funny women in the world, and there has been for so many years, so I'll be happy when people can just move on from that, and things can just be 'comedies' and not 'female' or 'male,' and everyone gets an equal opportunity.
I am a big David Bowie fan.
I took guitar lessons and recorded the song in New York. It was kind of a dream. I got to pretend I was a recording artist for a couple days.
I'm a vegetarian; I eat a lot of tofu and soy.
If I can be doing something in the arts till the day I die. I would be very, very happy.
It's fun for me to play people that are just kind of odd.
People are always so surprised when I want to do dramatic stuff.
I just always gravitate toward the kind of characters or people that maybe you don't want to talk to for a long time at a party, but you do like to watch what they're doing.
I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there's an adjustment that you have to make.
People always call me a comedian. And I don't really see myself like that. I guess I just consider myself an actor who does comedy. But who wants to do other things as well.