- 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.
- Kirsten's favorite TV shows include: Heroes, The Simpsons, The Office, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- Kirsten is a vegetarian.
- Kirsten was the 2005 recipient of the LA Drama Critics Circle Natalie Shafer Award for: Best Emerging Comedic Actress.
- Kirsten was finally made a series regular on Criminal Minds in early 2006 after she guest-starred in several episodes as the perky Garcia.
- She produced the play "The Learned Ladies" by Moliére for the Theatre of NOTE in Hollywood, CA.
- Kirsten's Past Jobs:
• a murder mystery dinner theatre
• a grant writer
• a personal assistant
• a restaurant hostess
• a subsitute teacher
• a child counselor
- She is a member of Theatre of NOTE in Los Angeles, California and continues to perform there.
- Her writing has been published in the Los Angeles Times Magazine.
- She is a solo performer.
- Her first paid acting job was a Diet Dr. Pepper commercial.
- 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.
- 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.
- Kirsten: I'm a theater girl. I like to learn my lines last month... I work so hard on my lines. I'm the one take wonder.
- Kirsten: (in a March 2005 interview) In five years I see myself being truer to what my intentions are and being very brave and having my career at a momentum that I can afford to help others more. I want to have a hybrid too.
