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Kat Dennings Profile |
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Birth Date: June 13, 1986
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Birth Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Birth Name: Katherine Litwack
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Height: 5'5"
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Biography |
Kat Dennings is an American actress.
Dennings, the daughter of Ellie Litwack, a poet, was born to
a Jewish family in the Bryn Mawr/Wynnewood area near
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she was raised. She has an
older brother, Geoffrey Litwack. Dennings was home schooled.
She moved with her family to Los Angeles, California around
2002 so that she could act full time. Her parents initially
considered her idea of pursuing an acting career "the worst
idea ever," Dennings told Interview magazine in 2007.
Dennings began her career in 2000 on the HBO cable
television series Sex and the City, in the episode "Hot
Child in the City", where she played a 13-year-old girl who
hired Samantha to handle publicity for her bat mitzvah. She
was then cast as Bob Saget's daughter on the short-lived TV
series, Raising Dad. Since then, she has appeared in a
number of television shows and movies, including The
40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), playing Catherine Keener's
daughter, and the Hilary Duff film, Raise Your Voice (2004).
Dennings also appeared as the character "Zoe" on several
episodes of ER in 2005 and 2006, and was a guest star on
CSI:NY, playing Sarah Endecott in the 2005 episode
"Manhattan Manhunt". Dennings appeared in the film Big
Momma's House 2 (2006), starring Martin Lawrence.
In 2008, Dennings starred in Charlie Bartlett, the story of
a wealthy teenager, played by Anton Yelchin, who acts as a
psychiatrist for his new public high school. Dennings played
Susan Gardner, Bartlett's love interest, and the daughter of
the school's principal, played by Robert Downey, Jr..
Dennings also appeared in The House Bunny, playing Mona, a
pierced, misfit sorority girl. Dennings will star with
Michael Cera, of Superbad and Juno, in the film Nick and
Norah's Infinite Playlist, a teen romance based on a novel
of the same name by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan. Dennings
shot the film in New York over 29 consecutive days of night
shoots during the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike.
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist will be released on
October 3, 2008.
In 2009, Dennings will appear in Shorts, a dark children's
film directed by Robert Rodriguez, and The Dream of the
Romans, a story about a celebrity author whose manifestos
become a sort of new Bible. Dennings hopes to make End Zone,
a film based on the novel of the same name by Don DeLillo.
Although actors Sam Rockwell and Josh Hartnett are involved,
the project has yet to be greenlit because of it's
controversial subject matter, nuclear war.
Dennings has been blogging since January 2001, and has since
also transitioned into video blogging on YouTube. She is a
self-proclaimed lover of baby animals, Shōjo manga, and
cheese. She is an avid reader and is friends with author
Andrea Seigel. She is also a huge Steve Martin fan. Her
brother Geoffrey also writes a blog. In 2005, Dennings dated
Ira David Wood IV (brother of Evan Rachel Wood), whom she
brought to the world premiere of The 40-Year-Old Virgin. In
2007, she began seeing Criminal Minds star Matthew Gray
Gubler. |
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Other
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Kat, who portrays Bob Saget's oldest daughter on _"Raising
Dad" (2001)_ , was born on the same day and in the same year
(June 13th, 1986) as Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen, who
portrayed Saget's youngest daughter on "Full House" (1987).
Was originally cast as Laynie Hart on "Everwood" (2002), but
the role was recast for unknown reasons. It later went to
Nora Zehetner.
Most of the characters she plays tend to be "rebellious
daughters" around 15 or 16.
Ranked #55 on interview magazines Hollywood faces to watch
"Future Stars of Tomorrow".
Took piano lessons for her role as Sloane in "Raise Your
Voice".
She is near-sighted. |
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since September 22, 2008