During her stint at Saturday Night Live, she received four nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She moved to Los Angeles, where she joined the improvisational comedy troupe The Groundlings and made her television debut as Dr. īorn in Canandaigua, New York, she was raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and later Rochester, New York.
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.
Kristen Carroll Wiig ( / w ɪ ɡ/ born August 22, 1973) is an American actress, comedian, screenwriter and producer.
