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Katherine Litwack (born June 13, 1986 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania), known professionally as Kat Dennings, is an American actress known for playing deadpan snarkers and starring in mostly independent film roles.
In 2011, she first broke out in the film world playing Darcy Lewis in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Thor and Thor: The Dark World. Later the same year as the former, she finally got a leading lady role in a CBS TV series called 2 Broke Girls where she played a waitress named Max Black alongside her costar Beth Behrs.
Notable Roles:
- Sex and the City (2000)
- Raising Dad (2001-2002)
- Raise Your Voice (2004)
- The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)
- Charlie Bartlett (2007)
- Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008) as Norah
- The House Bunny (2008)
- Shorts (2009)
- Defendor (2009)
- Daydream Nation (2010)
- Marvel Cinematic Universe (2011 — present) as Darcy Lewis
- Thor (2011)
- Thor: The Dark World (2013)
- WandaVision (2021)
- What If...? (2021)
- Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
- 2 Broke Girls (2011-2017) as Max Black
- Suburban Gothic (2014)
- The Newsroom (2014)
- Big Mouth (2017-2020) as Leah Birch
- Dollface (2019 — present) as Jules Wiley
- The Sandman (2020) as Death of the Endless
Tropes associated with her include:
- Bratty Teenage Daughter: As Sarah in Raising Dad and Maria in The 40-Year-Old Virgin.
- Deadpan Snarker: Max, Darcy and Norah.
- Goth: She's been known to play the Gloomy Goth type a few times because of her pale skin and snarkiness. In The Sandman (2020) she voices archetypical Perky Goth Death.
- The Bus Came Back: Kat’s character Darcy returns in Thor: Love and Thunder 9 years after lasting appearing in Thor: The Dark World, though she had featured in WandaVision and What If…? (2021) in-between.
