The Untold Truth Of Kat Dennings
Kat Dennings, whose real name is actually Katherine Victoria Litwack, was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania on June 13, 1986. The beauty was bitten by the acting bug at a young age and started her career by appearing in commercials and making cameos on both the small and big screens.
Dennings has appeared in everything from ER in 1994, to The 40-Year-Old Virgin in 2005. But it was her leading role in 2008’s Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist that really put her on the map. Then, in 2011, came her big break when she scored the role of Max Black on CBS’s 2 Broke Girls and instantly made TV viewers fall in love with her strong, funny and totally relatable character.
As her career continues to bloom, here are some super surprising facts all Kat Dennings fans need to know.
Kat Dennings was home-schooled
Instead of attending a traditional school, Kat Dennings was home-schooled by her parents and completed her high school curriculum when she was just 14 years old. Although she has called the experience “good,” the actress has also admitted that, when she began nearing the end of her studies, she “just couldn’t deal with being in the tiny room with my parents anymore.”
How did she resolve that situation? “I took charge of my education [and] it worked great. I don’t think I could have dealt with traditional school, just the way my brain is wired,” she admitted. Her decision obviously paid off, as the young Dennings flew through her schoolwork and graduated much sooner than many of her peers.
Asked by Complex in 2011 if she thinks she bypassed the social side of school, she said, “I think there’s an element of that, but nothing I missed. Nothing that hurt me.”
Kat Dennings’ parents disapproved of her acting dreams
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When Kat Dennings first decided that she wanted to pursue an acting career, her parents were less than thrilled with the idea. Even Dennings herself joked that acting “is the worst idea ever!” Since her success, however, they’ve come to embrace her decision.
“Now they are over the moon!” she told Glamour in 2012. “I was one of those kids where I clearly wasn’t going to be in school much longer, you know what I mean? I’m not a kid who can learn that way. I was a very unique child. I think they knew I belonged in the arts.”
Dennings went on to share where she may have gotten her own artistic talents: her parents. “My dad is a biochemist, but he actually wanted to be a painter when he was younger, so he had it in his blood. And my mom is a poet, so they all had their own secret art.”
Kat Dennings made her TV debut on Sex and the City
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It was 2000 when Kat Dennings — just a teenager trying to make it big in the industry — had her small screen debut on the hottest show on television, Sex and the City. The role was a small one, and you may not even remember it, but it was huge for Dennings. And looking back on it now, it was quite the epic on-camera moment.
The budding young star played 13-year-old Jenny Brier on an episode titled “Hot Child in the City” in which she hired Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall) to plan her bat mitzvah. Following her interaction with Samantha, Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon), Denning’s character left the women questioning their youth and wondering if the teens were trying to imitate them, or if, in fact, they were the ones trying to imitate the teens.
