Kristen Wiig Shows Off Rarely Seen Back Tattoo at Actor Awards 2026

By Gibson Johns Mar 02, 2026 1:33 PM

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Kristen Wiig is putting her tattoo on display.

The Palm Royale actress brandished a rarely seen ribcage tattoo that she's had for years at the 2026 Actor Awards, where she donned a black silk column gown with two deep cutouts on the sides. She paired the sleek Christian Cowan dress with a gold bangle, rings and black sandals and opted to wear her honey brown hair down past her shoulders. (See every red carpet look here.)

While it's unclear what exactly Kristen's tattoo says, it appears to contain seven lines of script. She flaunted the ink both while posing on the red carpet and inside the award show itself, where she smiled for photographers alongside her Bridesmaids costar Rose Byrne.

The 52-year-old had previously shared the story behind another one of her rarely seen tattoos, which is on her lower back.

"I got a tattoo with a friend of mine when I was very young," she shared on The Late Late Show with James Corden in 2017, "and I was like, 'I'm a leo,' so got a leo on my back. Like, the symbol. I'm having it removed. Well, it's grown. I was like, 'I don't really believe in astrology, why do I have this?'"

"I was walking down the boardwalk in Venice by myself right when I moved here and I was like, 'I'm gonna change my tattoo,'" Kristen continued. "And I went in and I was just looking in books and there was the ohm symbol, so I got that and then I was like, 'Maybe I'll add some branches!'"

She added at the time that she was in the process of getting the long lower back tattoo removed, calling the process "a lot."

More recently, Kristen has felt more confident in her style choices, explaining that she has figured out what she truly feels comfortable wearing.

"I’ve worn things in the past that didn’t feel like me, and I don’t do that anymore,” she told Harper’s Bazaar in July 2025. "I feel like now I’ve learned that I don’t need to keep up with whatever the current ‘trend’ is and just wear what feels like me."