The actress revealed that her stage name is a combination of a family friend and a character from her favorite childhood movie Chris Haston/WBTV via Getty Kat Dennings knew early on she wanted a ...

Watch: Kat Dennings Officially Engaged to Musician Andrew W.K. Here's a fun fact about Kat Dennings: That is not the actress' birth name. The Shifting Gears sitcom actress reflected on choosing ...

Dennings described the name change as a “CEO situation,” where she felt her real name couldn’t be seen on a “poster.” Dennings shortened her first name to Kat after Christina Ricci’s c ...

Kat Dennings had her future planned out from a young age. While chatting with Kylie Kelce on the Thursday, March 13, episode of the “Not Gonna Lie” podcast, Dennings, 38, revealed she chose ...

When she was just 9 years old, Kat Dennings made a big career decision — she created the stage name that she still uses to this day. Dennings, 38, known for her roles as Max Black in “2 ...

Kat Dennings and Tim Allen shared a bonding moment while gearing up for an emotional scene in Shifting Gears. “We were both dreading it. We were like, ‘Oh God, we have to cry. What is this?’ ...

Kat Dennings is also crushing it in her role as Riley, a newly-divorced mother just trying to do the best for her kids. Playing a parent is a first for the actress, and Dennings recently revealed ...

Dennings described the name change as a “CEO situation,” where she felt her real name couldn’t be seen on a “poster.” Dennings shortened her first name to Kat after Christina Ricci’s c ...

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Kat Dennings spilled the beans about the creative thought process of how she gave herself a tad professional name. In the Thursday, March 13 episode of the Not Gonna Lie With Kylie Kelce podcast ...

When Matt (Allen) exhibits odd behavior, his daughter Riley (Dennings) immediately connects the dots and must remind him of "the evils of peer pressure" in PEOPLE's exclusive look at the March 12 ...