Kirsten Vangsness Biography

Fast Facts

• Her theatre work won her the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Best Emerging Comic Actress
• She graduated from Cerritos High School in California and California State University Fullerton
• In the past she has worked as a grant writer, a personal assistant, a restaurant hostess, a substitute teacher, a child counselor and an actress in a murder mystery dinner theatre
• Quote: "(On being a TV star) "You're celebrated in this way that people don't get celebrated for just going to work․""
• Quote: "I'm a theatre girl․ I like to learn my lines last month․․․ I work so hard on my lines․ I'm the one-take wonder․"
• One of her passions is buying clothes and then remaking them to her taste
• When her co-star, A․J․ Cook, was dropped from the CBS-TV series "Criminal Minds," she went to her acting friends to get them to sign the fans' petition to have Cook reinstated