Kristen Wiig Net Worth

What is Kristen Wiig's Net Worth and Salary?

Kristen Wiig is an American comedian, actress, writer, and producer who has a net worth of $25 million.

Kristen Wiig first gained fame as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 2005 to 2012. During her time on SNL, she created memorable characters and impressions, earning her four Emmy Award nominations. After leaving SNL, Wiig transitioned to a successful film career, starring in and co-writing the hit comedy "Bridesmaids" (2011), which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

Wiig has appeared in numerous other films, including "Ghostbusters" (2016), "The Martian" (2015), "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (2013), and "Despicable Me 2" (2013). She has also lent her voice to animated films such as "How to Train Your Dragon" (2010) and its sequels.

In addition to her acting career, Wiig has continued to write and produce, creating and starring in the IFC miniseries "The Spoils of Babylon" (2014) and "The Spoils Before Dying" (2015). She has also appeared in several television shows, including "The Last Man on Earth" (2015-2018) and "Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp" (2015).

Early Life

Kristen Carroll Wiig was born in Canandaigua, New York, on August 22, 1973. When she was three, her family moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. At 13, her family moved to Rochester, New York, where she graduated from Brighton High School. She enrolled at Roanoke College but dropped out quickly and returned to Rochester to go to community college. She then enrolled as an art major at the University of Arizona. An acting course she took as an elective prompted the course's instructor to encourage Wiig to go into acting. She had a job lined up for after college, working in a plastic surgeon's office drawing pictures of clients' post-surgery bodies. However, the day before her new job was to start, she moved to Los Angeles to try and make a go of an acting career.

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Career Beginnings

Kristen Wiig began her comedy career after moving to Los Angeles, where she became involved with the improv and sketch comedy scene. She performed with The Groundlings, the influential Los Angeles comedy troupe that has produced a long list of future "Saturday Night Live" cast members. Wiig's time at The Groundlings helped shape the offbeat character work, nervous energy, and deadpan absurdity that would later become central to her screen persona.

Before becoming a national name, Wiig took small television and film roles while developing her voice as a performer. She made early appearances on shows such as "The Joe Schmo Show" and gradually built a reputation as a distinctive comic actor who could make even strange or uncomfortable characters feel fully formed.

Saturday Night Live

Wiig joined "Saturday Night Live" in 2005 and quickly became one of the show's most important cast members. During her seven-season run, she became known for original characters including the Target Lady, Penelope, Gilly, Dooneese, and the excitable Sue. She also became a reliable impressionist, portraying figures such as Kathie Lee Gifford, Nancy Pelosi, Kris Jenner, Suze Orman, and Liza Minnelli.

Her "SNL" years made her one of the defining sketch comedians of her generation. Wiig's style often mixed awkwardness, intensity, and total commitment, allowing her to turn bizarre premises into recurring favorites. She earned multiple Emmy nominations for her work on the show and became one of the rare cast members who could anchor sketches, steal scenes, and help carry the show as a whole. She left "Saturday Night Live" in 2012, closing out a run that had transformed her from a working improv performer into a major comedy star.

Breakthrough With "Bridesmaids"

Wiig's biggest film breakthrough came in 2011 with "Bridesmaids," which she co-wrote with Annie Mumolo and starred in as Annie Walker. The film became a major commercial and cultural success, earning more than $300 million worldwide and helping reshape Hollywood's assumptions about female-led studio comedies.

"Bridesmaids" earned Wiig and Mumolo an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. The film also turned Wiig into a bankable movie star and gave her one of the signature roles of her career. Her performance mixed broad physical comedy with insecurity, resentment, and emotional realism, proving that she could carry a mainstream comedy while giving it a deeper dramatic center.

Film Career

After "Bridesmaids," Wiig balanced studio comedies, animated films, independent dramas, and supporting roles. She appeared in films such as "Knocked Up," "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story," "Whip It," "MacGruber," "Paul," "Friends with Kids," "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," "The Skeleton Twins," "The Diary of a Teenage Girl," "Zoolander 2," "Ghostbusters," "Downsizing," "Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar," and "A Boy Called Christmas."

Wiig also built a successful voice acting career. She voiced characters in "How to Train Your Dragon," "Despicable Me," "Despicable Me 2," "Despicable Me 3," "Despicable Me 4," and "Sausage Party." Her role as Lucy Wilde in the "Despicable Me" franchise introduced her voice to a massive family audience and became one of her most commercially visible recurring roles.

In 2020, Wiig took on one of her highest-profile non-comedy roles when she played Barbara Minerva, also known as Cheetah, in "Wonder Woman 1984." The performance gave her a major part in a superhero blockbuster and showed another side of her screen career beyond sketch comedy and ensemble comedies.

Television and Later Work

Wiig continued to work steadily in television after leaving "SNL," often choosing projects that blended comedy with more stylized or dramatic material. She made appearances in shows such as "Arrested Development," "The Last Man on Earth," "Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp," "The Spoils of Babylon," and "The Spoils Before Dying." She also returned to host "Saturday Night Live" multiple times, reinforcing her status as one of the show's most beloved alumni.

In 2024, Wiig starred in and executive produced the Apple TV+ series "Palm Royale," a period comedy-drama set in Palm Beach high society in 1969. She played Maxine Simmons, an ambitious outsider determined to force her way into an elite social circle. The series featured an ensemble cast that included Laura Dern, Allison Janney, Ricky Martin, Josh Lucas, Leslie Bibb, and Carol Burnett. The role gave Wiig another major television showcase and added producer credit to one of the most prominent projects of her later career.

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Personal Life

In 2005, Kristen Wiig married actor Hayes Hargrove. Hargrove is known for his work on "Council of Dads"(2020), "Interrogation" (2020), and Bluff City Law" (2019). Kristen and Hayes divorced in 2009.

Wiig began dating actor Avi Rothman in 2016. They got engaged in 2019. Rothman is a writer and actor who also studied at The Groundlings. In 2020, Wiig and Rothman welcomed twins via a surrogate.

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Real Estate

Kristen Wiig has owned and sold a number of architecturally significant homes in Southern California, with a particular focus on midcentury-modern properties in Los Angeles and Pasadena.

In 2014, Wiig paid $1.4 million for an updated midcentury-modern home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Silver Lake. The hillside property, located near the Silver Lake Reservoir, was built in 1952 and featured three bedrooms, original hand-painted tiles, decorative window screens, cedar ceilings, and custom cement-tile floors. She listed the home in October 2018 for $5.125 million and sold it later that year for $5.225 million, a major profit over her original purchase price.

In 2013, Wiig bought a hillside home in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles for $1.764 million. The three-bedroom house featured sweeping views of the surrounding hills and roughly 2,500 square feet of outdoor deck space. One of the home's large deck areas connected directly to the open kitchen and living room through disappearing walls of glass, giving the property a strong indoor-outdoor feel. Wiig sold the home in mid-2017 for $2 million.

In December 2017, Wiig purchased Pasadena's Case Study House #10 for $2.96 million. The home, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was designed by father-son architectural team Kemper Nomland and Kemper Nomland Jr. as part of the influential Case Study program sponsored by Arts & Architecture Magazine. The modernist residence has nearly 3,500 square feet of living space, with four bedrooms, four bathrooms, an open living area centered around a tall brick fireplace, hardwood floors, and floor-to-ceiling windows. The house sits on a one-third-acre lot with terraced gardens, a swimming pool, and a spa. In 2021, Wiig sold the home to actress Lily Collins for about $4 million.

Wiig has also been active in Malibu. In 2020, she bought a Malibu home for $5.5 million and reportedly sold it about four months later for a $600,000 profit.

In February 2026, Wiig paid $5.5 million in an off-market deal for a 1965 midcentury-modern home in Pasadena's San Rafael Hills neighborhood. The roughly 5,600-square-foot residence was designed by the Southern California architecture firm Ainsworth, Angel & McClellan and sits on a sloping half-acre parcel surrounded by native oaks and sycamores. The house has four bedrooms and six bathrooms across three levels, with redwood detailing, travertine floors, wood-paneled walls and ceilings, and a California modernism-meets-Japanese design style. The property also includes a suspended bridge walkway, a sunken living room, a wraparound entertaining deck, guest quarters with their own kitchen and living areas, a freeform swimming pool with an inset spa, a pool house, a built-in barbecue and bar, garden pathways, and a two-car garage.

Barely four months after buying the home, Wiig listed it in June 2026 for $6.25 million, nearly $800,000 more than she paid. A few weeks later, she lowered the price to $5.995 million. At the time, reports noted that her primary residence was another Pasadena property located just a short drive away. She also owns a multimillion-dollar vacation home on Martha's Vineyard.

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