Kirsten Dunst Bio

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Kirsten Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982) is an American actress, known for her roles in Interview with the Vampire (for which she received a Golden Globe nomination), Jumanji, The Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette, Bring It On, and the Spider-Man film series.

Kirsten Dunst: Early life

Kirsten Dunst was born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, the daughter of Inez and Klaus Dunst, who are divorced. She was brought up in Brick, New Jersey. Her father, a German medical services executive from Hamburg, remained in New Jersey but now lives in Los Angeles, California. Her mother, a Swedish former art gallery owner, also moved to California. She attended Notre Dame High School. She also has a younger brother, Christian. She attended the Ranney School in New Jersey before leaving to pursue acting. Dunst is also a known Lutheran.

Kirsten Dunst: Career

Kirsten Dunst - Early career

Dunst got her start as a child fashion model at the age of three in television commercials. She was signed with Ford Models and Elite Model Management. In a 1988 episode of Saturday Night Live, she played the role of President George H. W. Bush's granddaughter. In 1989, Dunst made her film debut in Woody Allen's Oedipus Wrecks, a short film that was released as one-third of the anthology film New York Stories. Soon after, she landed a small part in The Bonfire of the Vanities as Tom Hanks' daughter. At the age of 15, Dunst did the voice of Kiki in the 1997 dub of the anime Kiki's Delivery Service. In 1993, Dunst played Hedril in the seventh season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation called "Dark Page". She also had a recurring role as a child prostitute, Charlie Chiemingo, on ER.

Kirsten Dunst - 1990s

Dunst during the 2005 Toronto Film Festival

Dunst portrayed young Amy March in the successful 1994 film adaptation of Little Women. She also starred alongside Robin Williams in Jumanji in 1995. She made her feature film breakthrough in Interview with the Vampire, a 1994 film based on Anne Rice's novel, in which she played the child vampire Claudia. The movie featured a scene in which Dunst, then aged eleven, received her first kiss from Brad Pitt, who was 29. Her performance earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination, the MTV Award for Best Breakthrough Performance and the Saturn Award for Best Young Actress. In 1995 (and again in 2002), she was named one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People. She also won the Worst Singer of the Year award from OK! magazine in 2007.

In 1997, she was the voice of Young Anastasia in Anastasia. Dunst was also offered the role of Angela in the 1999 Academy Award-winning film American Beauty, but turned it down because she did not want to appear in the film's suggestive sexual scenes or kiss co-star Kevin Spacey. The same year, she had the role of troubled adolescent Lux Lisbon in Sofia Coppola's independent film The Virgin Suicides.

Kirsten Dunst - 2000s

In 2000, she played the captain of a cheerleading squad in Bring It On.

She is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Mary Jane Watson in the Spider-Man film series based on Stan Lee and Steve Ditko's comic serial, alongside Tobey Maguire. She portrayed the neighbor and romantic interest of the mild-mannered superhero in the first film. She was generally well-received in the role, and had a now-famous and often-parodied scene in which she kisses the hero while he hangs upside-down from his web. The success of the first film led her to reprise the role in two sequels, Spider-Man 2 in 2004 and Spider-Man 3 in 2007. Dunst initially signed on to appear in three Spider-Man films, and has said that she would not appear in a fourth film unless director Sam Raimi returned to direct.

At the 2002 Mar de Plata Film Festival, Dunst won the Best Actress Silver Ombú for her performance as silent film actress Marion Davies in Peter Bogdanovich's The Cat's Meow.

In 2004 Dunst starred in the critically acclaimed Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind alongside Small Soldiers co-star David Cross

At the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, Marie Antoinette premiered. It was released in North America on October 20, 2006. In the film, her second with director Sofia Coppola, Dunst plays the title character and uses an American accent in the role.

She ranked at #59 on VH1's 100 Greatest Kid Stars.

Kirsten Dunst - Future roles

Dunst will next be seen in the upcoming film, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, with Simon Pegg. The film is expected to release in early of October 2008. Dunst is also expected to portray peace activist Marla Ruzicka in Sweet Relief scripted by Lorene Scafaria for Warner Independent Pictures in 2009. She is rumored to have the role of Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry in director Michel Gondry's upcoming biopic about the band. Dunst also expressed interest in playing Jean Seberg in an upcoming biopic.

Kirsten Dunst - Music

Dunst made her singing debut in the 2001 film Get Over It, performing two songs written by Marc Shaiman. She also lent her voice to the end credits of The Cat's Meow, singing Henry Creamer and Turner Layton's jazz standard "After You've Gone." In Spider-Man 3, she sings two songs as part of her role as Mary-Jane Watson, one during a Broadway performance, and one as a singing waitress in a jazz club. She also appeared in the music video for Savage Garden's "I Knew I Loved You". Dunst also sang on two tracks on Jason Schwartzman's solo album, Coconut Records ("This Old Machine" & "Summer Day").

Kirsten Dunst: Personal life

In an article for Premiere Magazine, Sam Raimi confirmed the long-standing rumor that Dunst and her Spider-Man co-star Tobey Maguire had "a thing" going on during the 2001 shooting of the first film. As Raimi explained for the article, "I'm so dumb, because I met with them for dinner one night during the shooting to talk about the next day's scenes. And I go, 'Okay, well, that's it for the meeting.' And then I ask Kirsten, 'Can I drive you home?' And they look at each other and she goes, 'No, no, I'm going to play a game of Touch 10 with Tobey.' I don't know, it was some game. I thought, 'That's weird. She's got to work tomorrow.'"

After briefly dating her longtime friend, playwright Jeff Smeenge, she started dating actor Jake Gyllenhaal in September 2002, after meeting him through his sister, Maggie (her Mona Lisa Smile co-star). They broke up in July 2004 but then dated intermittently until December 2005. In March 2007, she was seen with musician Johnny Borrell at the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas. Borrell, the frontman of Razorlight, commented on their relationship, saying, "I'm not hiding anything. We met in Los Angeles. We were hanging out at South by Southwest and we've been hanging out ever since."

Dunst was featured on Richard Blackwell's famous Best Dressed List for 2005.

Dunst confirmed that she was treated for depression early in 2008. She had been feeling "low" in the six months prior to her going to rehab. She went public with this information to "highlight the struggle faced by so many other successful woman" and to dispel false rumors that had "been very painful for my friends and family".

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