Katherine Litwack (born June 13, 1986), better known by the stage name Kat Dennings, is an American actress. She also co-stars in the CBS television series 2 Broke Girls. Her family is Jewish. According to Dennings, as stated in Interview magazine in 2007, her parents initially considered her idea of pursuing an acting career to be “the worst idea ever”. She was cast in a pilot for CBS, Sudbury, about a family of modern-day witches, based on the 1998 film Practical Magic, but the series wasn’t picked up. Dennings starred in Charlie Bartlett in 2008, the story of a wealthy teenager (Anton Yelchin), who acts as a psychiatrist for his new public high school. in 2009, Dennings appeared in The Answer Man, a story about a celebrity author whose manifestos become a sort of new Bible. Dennings and other rising stars were featured in the August 2009 issue of Vanity Fair, re-enacting scenes from famous Depression-era films, hers being Sydney Pollack’s They Shoot Horses, Don’t They.
