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Biography

Although Kirsten Vangsness is currently starring in Criminal Minds as Technical Analyst Penelope Garcia, she is well-known in the Los Angeles theater community and…more

Born

7/7/1972

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Role
- Criminal Minds
  Analyst Penelope Garcia
  - S 7: Ep 24 Run
    5/16/12
  - S 7: Ep 23 Hit
    5/16/12
  - S 7: Ep 22 Profiling 101
    5/9/12
  - S 7: Ep 21 Divining Rod
    5/2/12
  - S 7: Ep 20 The Company
    4/11/12
  - + 134 More Credits
- Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior
  Analyst Penelope Garcia
  - S 1: Ep 13 Death by a Thousand Cuts
    5/25/11
  - S 1: Ep 12 The Girl in the Blue Mask
    5/18/11
  - S 1: Ep 11 Strays
    5/11/11
  - S 1: Ep 10 The Time is Now
    5/4/11
  - S 1: Ep 9 Smother
    4/13/11
  - + 8 More Credits
Recurring Role (1)

Role
- Criminal Minds
  Analyst Penelope Garcia
  - S 1: Ep 22 The Fisher King (1)
    5/10/06
  - S 1: Ep 21 Secrets and Lies
    5/3/06
  - S 1: Ep 20 Charm and Harm
    4/19/06
  - S 1: Ep 19 Machismo
    4/12/06
  - S 1: Ep 18 Somebody's Watching
    3/29/06
  - + 16 More Credits
Guest Star (5)

Role
- The Talk
  Herself
  - S 2: Ep 24 Episode 219
    10/10/11
- e-Talk Daily
  Herself
  - S 1: Ep 101 November 7, 2006
    11/7/06
- LAX
  Stephanie
  - S 1: Ep 10 Secret Santa
    11/17/04
  - S 1: Ep 8 The Pictures to Prove It
    11/3/04
- Phil Of The Future
  Veronica
  - S 1: Ep 16 Age Before Beauty
    11/12/04
- LAX
  Ticket Agent
  - S 1: Ep 1 Pilot
    9/13/04

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- Kirsten is left-handed.
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- If she was not an actress, Kirsten would most likely choose to be a music supervisor. She likes to make mixed CDs for people. She constantly compiles songs for Criminal Minds co-star Matthew Gray Gubler.
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- Kirsten's favorite TV shows include: Heroes, The Simpsons, The Office, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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- Kirsten: (explaining how her role on Criminal Minds was developed) Shemar, whom I'd never met, came in and sat next to me. And we had a sexual harassment meeting we had to go to after we got done reading, and we sat next to each other and sexually harassed each other the whole time through this meeting. And the writers saw us, and then all of a sudden the part that was tiny got bigger and bigger.
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- Kirsten: (on hanging out with her "Criminal Minds" co-stars) It really is fun, everyone is sweet and has their own weirdness about them and when you combine it all, it really is lovely.
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- Kirsten: (on the similarities between herself and her character, Penelope, in "Criminal Minds") I haven't used my eighth grade math skills of Venn diagrams in a while, but if there was a Penelope Garcia and Kirsten Vangsness Venn diagram, the middle part would be really full.
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