Katherine Litwack (born June 13, 1986), better known by the stage name Kat Dennings, is an American actress. Dennings was born and raised in the Bryn Mawr area near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 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 for a five episode run on The WB’s Everwood, but the role was recast with Nora Zehetner. 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.
