Kat Dennings is known for her starring roles as Max Black in the CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls and as Darcy Lewis in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero films Thor, Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Love and Thunder, and the Disney+ miniseries WandaVision.
43 Facts About Kat Dennings
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Since making her acting debut in 2000, Dennings has appeared in films including The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Big Momma's House 2, Charlie Bartlett, The House Bunny, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Defendor, and Suburban Gothic.
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Kat Dennings's 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.
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Kat Dennings grew up in Penn Cottage, a historic house built in 1694 in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, which she claims was haunted.
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Kat Dennings's first acting job was an advertisement for potato chips that included a poisonous ingredient and never made it to market.
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Kat Dennings was homeschooled; her only enrollment at a traditional school was for a half-day at Friends' Central School.
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Kat Dennings graduated from high school early at age 14, and moved with her family to Los Angeles to pursue acting full time under the professional surname "Dennings".
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Kat Dennings then starred on the short-lived WB sitcom Raising Dad from 2001 to 2002 as Sarah, a 15-year-old raised by her widowed father, with a pre-teen sister.
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In 2002, Kat Dennings appeared in the Disney Channel film The Scream Team as a teenager who stumbles into a group of ghosts.
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Kat Dennings was cast for a five-episode run on The WB's Everwood, but the role was recast with Nora Zehetner.
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Kat Dennings continued working on television, guest-starring on Without a Trace as a teen whose boyfriend goes missing, and on Less than Perfect in 2003.
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Kat Dennings had a recurring role on ER from 2005 to 2006 as Zoe Butler, and twice guest-starred in the CSI franchise: first on CSI, as Missy Wilson in the 2004 episode "Early Rollout".
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Kat Dennings made her feature film debut in Hilary Duff's Raise Your Voice in 2004 as Sloane, a somber piano student.
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In 2006, Kat Dennings played a rebellious teenager in the crime comedy film Big Momma's House 2, starring Martin Lawrence.
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Kat Dennings starred in Charlie Bartlett in 2008, the story of a wealthy teenager who acts as a psychiatrist among students at his new public high school.
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Kat Dennings played Susan Gardner, Bartlett's love interest and the daughter of the school's Principal Gardner, played by Robert Downey, Jr.
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Kat Dennings appeared in The House Bunny that year, as Mona, a pierced feminist sorority girl.
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Kat Dennings starred that year in the teen comedy romance Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, with Michael Cera.
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Kat Dennings played Norah Silverberg, the daughter of a famous record producer.
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Kat Dennings was nominated for the International Press Academy's Satellite Award for Best Actress for her performance.
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In September 2008, Kat Dennings was involved in a project to adapt Don DeLillo's novel End Zone as a film.
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In 2009, Kat Dennings appeared in The Answer Man, a film about a celebrity author whose manifestos become a sort of new Bible.
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Kat Dennings co-starred in the Robert Rodriguez-directed dark children's film Shorts that year.
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Kat Dennings played Stacey Thompson, the teenage older sister of the protagonist Toe.
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Kat Dennings was cast in the romantic comedy film Liars, to be directed by Richard Linklater.
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Kat Dennings appeared in the superhero film Defendor in 2009, starring Woody Harrelson and Sandra Oh, playing a crack-addicted prostitute.
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In May 2010, Kat Dennings appeared in a music video for "40 Dogs ", a single by Austin, Texas-based musician Bob Schneider.
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Kat Dennings was part of the cast of the Marvel Studios film Thor, released in May 2011, and directed by Kenneth Branagh.
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Kat Dennings played Darcy Lewis, a tech-savvy sidekick and assistant to Natalie Portman's character, Jane Foster.
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In February 2011, Kat Dennings was cast in 2 Broke Girls, a CBS sitcom written and produced by Michael Patrick King and comedian Whitney Cummings.
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Beth Behrs co-stars as a Manhattan heiress who lost her inheritance, while Kat Dennings plays a tough outspoken girl from Brooklyn.
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Kat Dennings liked the idea of reaching a wider audience with her work, so she accepted the role on the network sitcom.
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Kat Dennings starred in the drama film To Write Love on Her Arms in 2012, with Chad Michael Murray and Rupert Friend.
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Kat Dennings 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.
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In mid-2012, Kat Dennings filmed the independent feature Suburban Gothic, playing a small-town bartender.
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Kat Dennings introduced The Black Keys at the 55th Grammy Awards on February 10,2013.
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Kat Dennings appeared in a music video for the Hanson single "Get the Girl Back", alongside Nikki Reed.
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In 2013, Kat Dennings reprised her role as Darcy Lewis in Thor: The Dark World.
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Kat Dennings worked on the film and 2 Broke Girls at the same time, flying to London to film for six months between breaks on her CBS sitcom.
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Kat Dennings starred in the Hulu comedy series Dollface, beginning in November 2019.
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Kat Dennings reprised her role as Darcy Lewis in the Disney+ miniseries WandaVision, and in Thor: Love and Thunder.
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From 2001 to 2010, Kat Dennings maintained a blog, and dabbled in video blogging on YouTube.
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From 2011 to 2014, Kat Dennings dated her 2 Broke Girls co-star Nick Zano.