Kristen Wiig

A famous actress Kristen Wiig was welcomed in New York. Her father Jon used to run a lake marina and her mother Laurie is an artist. When a future star turned 3, the family moved to Pennsylvania, where Kristen grew up.

It would be interesting to know that she never dreamt of becoming a part of the moviemaking industry. Instead she wanted to build a successful career in the medical sphere. That’s why, having finished Rochester’s Brighton High School, she entered Roanoke College to study psychoanalysis. However, after just one year of studies, she left and became a student at the University of Arizona as an art student. There, she enrolled in her first acting classes and fell in love with it. In the late 1990s she moved to Los Angeles and joined the improv comedy group called The Groundlings.

Speaking of the film star’s debut on a big screen, it happened in 2003 when she appeared in a melodrama I’m with Her. After that she featured in Knocked Up, Pretty Bird, Date Night and other great television projects.

Yet, the main breakthrough in Wiig’s career happened in 2011 when she starred in Bridesmaids that she also co-wrote. Her other successful works include: Zoolander 2, Ghostbusters, Hateship, Loveship and dozens of others.

And now, it is high time to share more mind-blowing information about the celebrity’s life. Here are top 5 fascinating facts you definitely didn’t know about:

• She is vegetarian.
• She would like to have lots of tattoos.
• She maintains a healthy lifestyle, practicing yoga, going for walks and running.
• She used to work as a graphic artist, a florist and a decorative painter.
• She loves animals a lot and that’s why never wears fur.