Kat Dennings is an American actress known for her starring roles as Max Black in «2 Broke Girls» and as Darcy Lewis in the MCU films & miniseries.
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- Her full name is Katherine Victoria Litwack.
- She was born on June 13th, 1986.
- She was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
- Her mother, Ellen Judith Litwack, is a poet and speech therapist, and her father, Gerald J. Litwack, is a molecular pharmacologist, and college professor and chairman.
- Kat Dennings is the youngest of five children.
- Her family is Jewish.
- Kat Dennings grew up in Penn Cottage, a historic house built in 1694 in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
- She actually claims that the historic house was… haunted!
- She began her career at age 9 by acting in commercials.
- Kat Dennings said her family never had much money for formal acting training.
- Her first acting job was an advertisement for potato chips that included a poisonous ingredient and never made it to market.
- In her early years, she worked as an extra to earn her SAG card.
- Dennings was homeschooled.
- Her only enrollment at a traditional school was for a half-day at Friends’ Central School.
- She graduated from high school early at age 14.
- She moved with her family to Los Angeles to pursue acting full time under the professional surname “Dennings”.
- She is currently 36 years old.
- She is known professionally as Kat Dennings.
- She is an American actress.
- She is known for her starring roles as Max Black in the CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls (2011–2017)
- She is also known as Darcy Lewis in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero films Thor (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), and the Disney+ miniseries WandaVision (2021).
- Since making her acting debut in 2000, Dennings has appeared in films including The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Big Momma’s House 2 (2006), Charlie Bartlett (2007), The House Bunny (2008), Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (2008), Defendor (2009), and Suburban Gothic (2014).
- Dennings made her professional debut with an appearance on HBO’s Sex and the City in 2000, in the episode “Hot Child in the City”, playing an obnoxious 13-year-old who hires Samantha to handle publicity for her bat mitzvah.
- In February 2011, Dennings was cast in 2 Broke Girls, a CBS sitcom written and produced by Michael Patrick King and comedian Whitney Cummings. The series debuted on September 19, 2011, and follows the lives of two underemployed girls. Beth Behrs co-stars as a Manhattan heiress who lost her inheritance, while Dennings plays a tough outspoken girl from Brooklyn. On May 12, 2017, CBS canceled the series after six seasons.
- Dennings liked the idea of reaching a wider audience with her work, so she accepted the role on the network sitcom.
- Dennings starred in the drama film To Write Love on Her Arms (originally titled Renee) in 2012, with Chad Michael Murray and Rupert Friend. She played Renee Yohe, a Florida teenager who struggled with substance abuse and self-injury, and who inspired the founding of the nonprofit organization To Write Love on Her Arms.
- In mid-2012, Dennings filmed the independent feature Suburban Gothic, playing a small-town bartender. The film premiered in 2014.
- Κατ Dennings introduced The Black Keys at the 55th Grammy Awards on February 10, 2013.
- She appeared in a music video for the Hanson single “Get the Girl Back”, alongside Nikki Reed.
- The actresses are close friends and are both fans of the pop group.
- In 2018, it was announced that Dennings would star as Abby in the comedy film Friendsgiving.
- Dennings starred in the Hulu comedy series Dollface, beginning in November 2019.
- In 2008, Dennings stated that Judaism “is an important part of my history, but, as a whole, religion is not a part of my life.”
- She considers herself more ethnically and culturally affiliated than religiously so.
- From 2001 to 2010, Dennings maintained a blog.
- She also dabbled in video blogging on YouTube.
- Dennings lives in Los Angeles with her cat, Millie.
- She is an animal welfare supporter.
- From 2011 to 2014, Dennings dated her 2 Broke Girls co-star Nick Zano.
- From 2014 to 2016, Dennings dated singer Josh Groban.
- On May 6, 2021, it was confirmed that Dennings was in a relationship with musician Andrew W.K.
- A week later, on May 13, 2021, the couple announced their engagement on Instagram.
- Kat Dennings has been a fan of W.K. since at least 2014.
- She has mediocre at every musical instrument. She can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute… Just not well.
- She Has Played Slumber Party Games with Paul McCartney
- Kat Dennings was inducted into Maxim’s Hot 100
- On her breakout role as Norah in Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Kat said she is very different from her except that they are “both brunettes and Jewish.” Yet, “I liked that Norah was a strong and unique female lead, not the type of girl I was used to seeing in films like this. I liked that she was Jewish — it’s different from what I’ve seen in the past.”
- After eight years of not being in Marvel films/shows, in 2021, she appeared in Marvel’s WandaVision in a key role. On returning, she said, “Very wild, really incredible and unexpected. When I got the phone call, I was like, ‘What?’ I was so excited. I was excited to be in one movie let alone two, let alone this, so I’m so excited. And it’s such a cool show and so unique from anything Marvel’s ever done.”
- Before she reprised her role, she rewatched the first two Thor films to remember “Darcy’s essence.”
- On social media she’s very active on both Instagram and Twitter.
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