Kirsten Vangsness

Bienvenue sur le topic consacré à l'actrice Kirsten Vangsness

BIOGRAPHIE:

Nom :Vangsness
Prénoms : Kirsten
Date de naissance : 7 Juillet 1972
Nationalité :américaine
Signe du zodiaque :cancer
Taille : 1m70
Yeux : marron
Profession : actrice, comédienne
Etude :
diplomée de Cerritos High School (Cerritos,California) en 1990

Filmographie :

In my Sleep (2008)
A-List (2006)
« Lax » (2004)
« Phil of the future » (2004)
Sometimes Santa’s Gotta Get Whacked (1998)

Faits marquants…

Elle a pendant longtemps multiplié les petits boulots : remplacement de professeurs, hôtesse dans un restaurant,.. Son premier job rémunéré ? Un régime du Dr Pepper !!!

Elle a écrit pour le Los Angeles Times Magazine

Elle est un membre actif du théâtre NOTE de Los Angeles.

An Interview with Kirsten Vangsness (Penelope Garcia, Criminal Minds)
From Rachel Thomas

Many times when we get involved in a series, we forget that the
characters we've welcomed into our living rooms each week live
completely different lives than what is portrayed on television. I
had the fortunate opportunity to chit chat with the very bubbly and
incredibly sweet Kirsten Vangsness from the immensely popular CBS
series Criminal Minds.

Q: Before you became an actress, you had several interesting jobs
(substitute teacher, grant writer), did any of these positions help
prepare you for a career in acting?

Kirsten: "I used to be a substitute teacher for quite some time, I
was in a group home, and then sometimes I was a teacher for long
periods of time. If they didn't have a teacher for a really rough
class, I would be the teacher who would come in and teach them.
Someone once told me there are two kinds of teachers: The kind who
can get the kids to do anything they want by sheer intimidation and
then there's the kind that can get them to do anything they want
because you don't know what that person is going to do. I was that
second kind. I'd walk in the kids would be like, 'She just came in
and she's wearing shoes with kitty cats on them, purple-striped
nylons and a Sex Pistol t-shirt.' I just pulled out an apple, a
grapefruit, a pan, 12 books out of my purse, 14 kinds of lip-gloss
and they didn't know what to make of me. There's an element of almost
being like right before school when you're going to see these kids,
you're setting yourself up to be eaten alive and chewed up and spit
out. There was that element, that quickening, meeting all those
people coming from different worlds and creating in like 15 minutes,
a community."

Q: If you weren't acting, what do you think you'd be doing now?

Kirsten: "I love music, I collect songs. I have a whole cover
collection and constantly when people don't even ask me, like Matthew
(her co-star), he's one of my CD victims, I'm constantly making him
CD's - he doesn't ask me for them, I just come in and tell him these
are the best make artists of 1994. I think I'd be a music supervisor,
like the people who make stuff for movie soundtracks."

Q: I understand you have very unusual shopping tastes, can you tell
us what your favorite items to buy are?

Kirsten: "I like clothes that make me happy! They don't arrive to me
like they're supposed to. I'll get something and say to myself, I
know this is brand new, but I'm going to cut the neck off, I'm going
to slice the side up and sew a different piece of fabric in there.
When I was a child, my mother would give me and my sister like $15
apiece, put us into goodwill and tell us to go get our school
clothes. If that meant you spent the whole $15 on a pimp daddy fake
fur coat, that was your school clothes, which I did do one year. When
I was in first grade, I got this fantastic fake fur coat that I wore
every day, when it was 80 degrees. Right now, I'm on a crinoline
kick, I have way more crinolines that any human being should have."

Q: After speaking with you and Matthew Gray Gubler, I realize you
guys must have a blast on the set - is that true and does any of the
cast hang out off set?

Kirsten: "Matthew lives like 5 minutes away from me and my theater
company is halfway between my house and where he lives. There has
been a couple times when I've been out with my friends at some
restaurant and I'll look up and say 'Why are you here?' We have a lot
of fun, Matthew is so sweet and he knows a lot of really dumb jokes,
so we swap a lot of dumb jokes. One of the best things about doing
this show is, if someone had said your Doppelganger is a 30 year-old
black guy, I would never have believed it. One of my best friends is
Shemar now; we get along so well in real life. We hang out with each
other, we talk on the phone, we ask each other for advice. It really
is fun, everyone is sweet and has their own weirdness about them and
when you combine it all, it really is lovely."

Q: Your character is a computer genius, are you as knowledgeable
about computers?

Kirsten: "Before I did this show I never had my own computer and I
would go to my mom's house and use her PC. I didn't understand any of
it and when I got the job I said this is kind of criminal that I
don't know about it. So, I asked my friends, who were technical
geniuses and they've helped me out so much. Now I'll find myself in a
conversation with someone, I'll be talking and saying technical terms
about computers and software that I assume are vernacular to
everyone. I'm getting better and better at it, I'm a different kind
of smart from Garcia."

Q: Where do you feel your character is headed in the coming months?

Kirsten: "That's always a weird question because I'm so surprised by
the things they come up with. I love that surprise element where I
read a script and I go, 'She does that?' Very rarely do I read a
script and think that's not Garcia would do. I love how they inform
me and I deal with what they've given me and build from that. I love
that she's getting more involved in the group and I think that's a
hard thing to do for the writers because she doesn't have the same
sensibility as the other six, she's not a crime fighter. She wouldn't
carry a gun, she'd carry a taser. I'm excited because she is getting
into the field more. I saw the car that Garcia drives last night. We
shot a scene where I drive the most amazing car that you ever saw in
your life! It's very vintage."

Q: Do you watch anything on television other than your show?

Kirsten: "I love British television a great deal. I'm a little
obsessed with Heroes right now. I love The Office and I love
cartoons, I'm a big Simpsons freak. I actually collect Mr. Roger's
DVDs because I love him so much. I love Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

Q: I've heard you love doing theater, going forward is your plan to
continue performing in both mediums?

Kirsten: "Yeah, that's my first love. Theater is the one thing any
actor can do. It's so valuable in our society, it's the first place
you see a germ of an idea that starts as a conversation and then gets
made into a movie or a television show. It's really accessible to
everybody. I'm a member of Theater NOTE in Hollywood. I wish we had
bigger audiences; sometimes we have like 8 people in our audience.
I'm in a play right now that we do every Christmas at my theater
company. It's hard to juggle the two things, I try to make it work.
I'm writing a play, I've written a couple of plays before when I
couldn't get work as an actor."

Q: What would people be surprised to learn about you?
Kirsten: "I took acting because I was so shy.

Q: Anything you'd like to say to the fans?
Kirsten: "Thank you for watching our experiment. I think it started
out as this theory, a nuts and bolts kind of show and it's really
spinning into its own little child, it's a toddler now, a crime show
toddler. I'd like to thank them for watching it. It keeps getting
better, it's so exciting. I'm so lucky to be a part of it all."

Source : http://tvdramas.about.com/od/criminalminds/a/kirvangsnessint.htm
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Son blog : http://www.cbs.com/primetime/criminal_minds/blog.php
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Des stylos pour Kirsten Vangsness

Sur son blog, Kirsten Vangsness a écrit qu'elle commençait à manquer de stylos. Il n'en a pas fallu plus pour qu'une fan ait l'idée de lui en envoyer. Le yahoo group criminal minds conversation (http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/criminal_minds_conversation/) est en train de s'organiser. C'est la fondatrice du groupe (qui est aussi la webmestre de ce blog : http://criminalmindsfanatic.blogspot.com/) qui centralise ce projet de cadeau.
Pour participer, il faut lui envoyer un mail (en anglais) à cette adresse : displacednewyorker@gmail.com
Elle vous donnera l'adresse postale (usa) où envoyer les stylos. Elle fera ensuite un envoi groupé à la production de Criminal minds pour l'actrice. Date de l'envoi groupé : 27 février. Elle doit donc avoir reçu les stylos avant cette date.

Vous imaginez le truc : offrir des stylos fantaisies à Kirsten Vangsness et ensuite voir Garcia avec l'un de ces stylos dans la série. Ce serait rigolo. sourit0

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J'adore ce crayon. J'en avait vu aussi de ce genre à une papeterie près de chez moi, ils sont trop chou ! Y'avais aussi avec un chat et un cheval si je me souviens bien.
C'est vrai que ça doit être drôle de vois son stylo passer à la TV lol!

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Morgan: I hope it was a she.

Agent rattaché à la BAU Age : 40 Inscrit le : 01 Oct 2007 Messages : 101

Azertynin devient une vedette de série tv grâce à un stylo vole

N'empêche que ça doit faire tout drôle quand même langue

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Wouw! C'est trop excellent!!!! C'est clair qu'il est trop chou ce crayon! Razz

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REID: I know what it's like to be afraid of your own mind.

whouahh trop excellent, je regarderai l'episode la different lol
je dirai "c'est pas vrai, mais je le connais ce stylo c'est à Azertynin "
felicitation te voilà un peu figurante dans la série ! ^^ applaud

LoL! Ce crayon je l'ai vu plein de fois dans mon lycée. Y'a pas que le Marsu' en tout cas! C'est vrai que c'est cool! On saura que le stylo vient de toi! Mdr Top fort!

Moi se qui m'intéresse, c'est tout se qu'elle a dans la salle! drunken

C'est fous tout l'équipement qu'elle a... j'adore! nut

Elève à Quantico Age : 26 Inscrit le : 30 Sep 2008 Messages : 27

c'est atypique de retrouver une actrice comme Kirsten dans une série us. elle n'a pas la plastique poupee barbie et rien que pour ca je ladore ! elle apporte une fraicheur a lequipe et une fragilité emotionnelle. j'ai hate de voir son evolution. Ses babioles en font une personne tres attachante !
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