She graduated from high school early, at the age of 14. According to Dennings, as stated in Interview magazine in 2007, her parents initially considered her idea of pursuing an acting career to be “the worst idea ever”. She was cast in a pilot for CBS, Sudbury, about a family of modern-day witches, based on the 1998 film Practical Magic, but the series wasn’t picked up. Dennings made her feature film debut in Hilary Duff’s Raise Your Voice in 2004, as Sloane, a somber piano student.
