Kat Dennings

Born:
June 13, 1986 in Philadelphia, PA
Occupation:
Actor
Biography:
Born in Philadelphia, PA, actress Kat Dennings broke into television before she could drive, landing a one-off appearance on Sex and the City. She continued to work steadily on the small screen in a variety of shows including Raising Dad, Less Than Perfect, and Without a Trace.
Born in Philadelphia, PA, actress Kat Dennings broke into television before she could drive, landing a one-off appearance on Sex and the City. She continued to work steadily on the small screen in a variety of shows including Raising Dad, Less Than Perfect, and Without a Trace. While still a teenager, Dennings landed a role in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, as well as a supporting turn in the independent drama Down in the Valley. She had a recurring role on ER as Zoe Butler, and continued her work on the big screen with a supporting turn in the high-school comedy Charlie Bartlett. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

Career
Dennings began her career as a child in comercials, her first job was an advertisement for potato chips. She appeared on the HBO cable television series Sex and the City in 2000, where she played a 13-year-old girl who hires the character Samantha to handle publicity for her bat mitzvah in the episode "Hot Child in the City".Dennings was cast in the short-lived TV series Raising Dad (2001–2002), starring as Sarah, a 15-year-old with a pre-teen sister (Brie Larson), who is being raised by her widowed father (Bob Saget). Dennings then appeared in The Scream Team in 2002, a Disney Channel movie, playing a teen that stumbles into a group of ghosts. Dennings was cast for 5 episodes on The WB series Everwiid that year. The role was later recast, going to Nora Zehetner.
Dennings guest-starred on the television series Without a Trace, as a teen girl whose

boyfriend goes missing, and on Less Than perfect in 2003. She made her feature film debut in Hilary Duff 's Raise Your Voice in 2004, with the small role of Sloane, a somber piano student. Dennings was cast in the CBS television drama Sudbury, about a family of modern-day witches, based on the 1998 film practical Magic. The series only produced a pilot episode . She landed a role in The 40-Year-Old virgin in 2005, as Catherine Keener’s daughter. Dennings appeared on several episodes of ER in 2005 and 2006, playing a character named Zoe. She was a guest star on CSI:NY playing Sarah Endecott, in the 2005 episode "Manhattan Manhunt", and 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 (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(Rpnert Downey,jr). Dennings also appeared in The House Bunny, playing Mona, a pierced, caustic feminist misfit sorority girl. Dennings starred with Michael Cera in the 2008 teen romance filam Nick and Norah “S Infinite playlist , where she played Norah Silverberg, the daughter of a famous record producer . Dennings was nominated for the Satellite a Motion picture Musical or Comedy, an annual award from the International press Academy , for this performance. Dennings stated in September 2008 that she hoped to make End Zone, a film based on the novel of the same name by Don DeLillo. Although actors Sam Rockwell and Josh Hartnett were involved, the project was yet to be greenlitbecause of its controversial subject matter of nuclear war.
In 2009, Dennings appeared in The Answer Man, a story about a celebrity author whose manifestos become a sort of new Bible. The same year, she co-starred in Shorts, a dark children's film directed by Robert Rodriguez; Dennings played Stacey Thompson, the teenage older sister of the protagonist Toe (Jimmy Bennett). For the August 2009 issue of Vanity Fair, Dennings and other rising stars were featured in remake shots of famous Depression-era films, hers being the 1969 film Tgey Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
Dennings appeared in the superhero film Defendor in 2010, starring Woody Harrelson and Sandra oh, playing a crack-addicted prostitute. She was cast in the romantic comedy Liars (A to E), to be directed by Richard Linklater . The film was cancelled however due to cut backs at Miramax by the studio's parent company Disney. Dennings shot the independent feature Daydream Nation in Vancouver, written and directed by Michael Golbach. She stars opposite Josh Lucas in the film, as a girl who is caught up in a love Triangle with her high school teacher (Josh Lucas) and a teenage drug dealer (Reece

Thompson), after moving to a strange rural town. Dennings joined the cast of the Marvel Studios film Thor as Darcy, a character who works with Jane Foster( Natalie portman). The film, directed by, began shooting in January 2010. As of April 2010, Dennings was filming for 6 weeks in New Mexico. In May 2010, she appeared in a music video for the song "40 Dogs (Like Romeo and Juliet)" by Austin, Texas-based musician Bob Schneider . The video, filmed in various locations around Austin, was directed by Robert Rodriguez.