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Born August 22, 1973 in Rochester, New York, Kristen Carroll Wiig wasn't really working towards any acting endeavors while at Brighton High school. She did her "fair share of partying," and her most memorable role was as a munchkin in an eighth-grade production of The Wizard of Oz.

She "bounced around from Roanoke University to a Rochester area community college," with an additional three months spent at Mexico's National Outdoor Leadership School, teaching other students. Finally, landing at the University of Arizona, where she majored in art, she obtained a job at a local plastic surgeon's office in graphic design, showing patients "before" and "after" pictures. However, Hollywood was calling, and she changed her mind and moved to Los Angeles, two days before she was to start.

After arriving in Los Angeles, Kristen worked at a variety of places, including The Hollywood Hot Dog Company, and the Farmers Market. She answered phones, worked as a floral designer, and as a cashier/window display designer for the clothing chain Anthropologie. She worked for three years in Los Angeles without an acting job, until attending a comedy show and being inspired to try improv.

She joined the renowned The Groundlings comedy troupe and quickly advanced through the group, then landed minor parts on the sitcoms The Drew Carey Show and I'm With Her.

In 2003, Kristen appeared on Spike TV's reality experiment The Joe Schmo Show as "Dr. Pat," the three-times divorced marriage-counselor. The show, a send-up of reality shows, centered around an everyday "joe" being duped on thinking he's competing in a reality show, "Lap of Luxury," only to learn at the show's finale that he was the only "real" person on the show - everybody else was a paid actor. In the title sequence, Kristen was introduced as 'Dr. Pat - the "quack." The joe, Matt Kennedy Gould, later said he was highly impressed by Kristen's acting.

Her manager sent in a tape of her Groundlings performances to SNL in 2005, and Kristen auditioned twice. The new season began, and NBC hadn't contacted her, so she assumed she'd been rejected. After a call from NBC, she joined the cast on a Wednesday before the Friday rehearsal. In her audition, she did impressions of Megan Mullally, Drew Barrymore, Bjork, Jennifer Tilly, Jessica Simpson, and Laura Bush. Kristen first appeared on the the show as a "featured player" November 12, 2005. Her first sketch, "The Soaking Wet Killer," featured Kristen and Jason Sudeikis picking up a soaking drifter, played by Jason Lee.

In her 2nd episode, hosted by Eva Longoria, Kristen debuted her first impression: a drunken Judy Garland, attending a Thanksgiving soiree at Vincent Price's house. Soon after, in a December 2005 episode, her first character appeared: the overly-excited nameless Target cashier who frequently left her job in search of customers' purchases. After the 2005-2006 season, some SNL cast members were cut from the show, but Kristen stayed on and became a regular cast member, going from a few spots in the background to appearing in nearly as many sketches as the host. Since her first appearance in 2005, Kristen's SNL ouvre grew to include highly-acclaimed imitations of money management whiz Suze Orman and an Activia-guzzling Jamie Lee Curtis.

Her talent grows beyond SNL, with several feature films including Walk Hard, Ghost Town, Knocked Up, and webprojects such as Strike.TV's Global Warming series. She's become a member of the Apatow gang, making several appearances in Apatow-produced movies and on DVD special features. In the future, she'd like to direct and have her own show. Currently, she's writing a screenplay for Judd Apatow, in which she'll star.

Biography by Bri

sources:

Radar January 2008
IMDB.com
Page Six magazine January 2008
Elle September 2007
Vanity Fair April 2008