In many ways, Kristine Froseth has had quite a serendipitous career. At 15, the Looking for Alaska star jokingly entered a catwalk competition with her friends at her local mall. It just so happened ...

With its red lacquered paneling and leopard-print carpet, the Nines—a recently opened piano bar on Manhattan’s cobblestoned Great Jones Street—doesn’t need much to transform into a highbrow game club.

Kristine Froseth is used to being the new girl. The New Jersey-born actress moved from Norway and back every few years for her father’s banking job, seesawing between friendships and cultures. Due to ...