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Kirsten Dunst
Dunst at the Spider-Man 3 premiere in New York, 2007
Born
Kirsten Caroline Dunst
Years active1989 - present
AwardsSaturn Award for Best Younger Actor
1994 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
BSFC Award for Best Supporting Actress
1994 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles ; Little Women
Empire Award for Best Actress
2002 Spider-Man

Kirsten Caroline Dunst[1] (born April 30, 1982) is an American actress and singer. She made her film debut in Oedipus Wrecks, a short directed by Woody Allen for the anthology film New York Stories. She appeared in the 1994 film Little Women opposite Winona Ryder and Claire Danes. That same year, Dunst starred in her breakthrough role in Interview with the Vampire, in which portrayed vampire Claudia, a surrogate daughter to Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt's characters in the film. Her performance earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance.

Dunst became well known when she was cast as Mary Jane Watson in the Spider-Man films. Since then, she has starred in Sofia Coppola's 2006 film, Marie Antoinette, in which she plays the title character. Dunst is set to appear in How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, All Good Things, and Sweet Relief.

Dunst made her singing debut in the 2001 film Get over It, in which she performed two songs. In The Cat's Meow, she sung Henry Creamer and Turner Layton's song "After You've Gone" to the end credits of the film. In 2008, Dunst admitted that she was battling with depression and checked herself into rehab. She discharged herself in March 2008, to resume filming in All Good Things. In her personal life, Dunst has dated playwright Jeff Smeenge. Since then, she had dated actor Jake Gyllenhaal from 2002 to 2004 and Razorlight frontman Johnny Borrell.

Biography

Early life

Kirsten Dunst was born April 30 1982 in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, the daughter of Inez and Klaus Dunst, who are divorced. She has a younger brother, Christian.[2] Her father, a German medical services executive from Hamburg, remained in New Jersey but now lives in Los Angeles, California.[2] Her mother, a Swedish former art gallery owner,[3] also moved to California. Dunst attended Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, California and then attended the Ranney School in New Jersey, before leaving to pursue acting.[2] She is also a known Lutheran.[4]

Career

Dunst began her career as a child fashion model at the age of three in television commercials.[3] She was signed with Ford Models and Elite Model Management.[3] 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.[3] Soon after, she landed a small part in The Bonfire of the Vanities as Tom Hanks' daughter.[3] In 1993, Dunst played Hedril in "Dark Page", the seventh season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.[5] At the age of fifteen, Dunst was the voice of Kiki in the 1997 anime series Kiki's Delivery Service.[6] She also had a recurring role as a child prostitute, Charlie Chiemingo, on ER.[2]

Dunst during the 2005 Toronto Film Festival

Dunst portrayed young Amy March in the 1994 film adaptation of Little Women.[3] The film received widespread praise; critic Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that the film was the greatest adaptation of the novel, and also remarked on Dunst's performance: "The perfect contrast to take-charge Jo comes from Kirsten Dunst's scene-stealing Amy, whose vanity and twinkling mischief make so much more sense coming from an 11-year-old vixen than they did from grown-up Joan Bennett in 1933. Ms. Dunst, also scarily effective as the baby bloodsucker of "Interview With the Vampire," is a little vamp with a big future."[7] 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.[8] In the Chicago Sun-Times review of the film, critic Roger Ebert wrote: "One of the creepier aspects of the story is the creation of the child vampire, Claudia, played by Kirsten Dunst, who is about 12 years old. The character was six in the novel, but even twice as old she is disturbing, trapped in her child's body as she ages, decade after decade. Dunst, perhaps with the help of Stan Winston's subtle makeup, is somehow able to convey the notion of great age inside apparent youth."[9] Todd McCarthy in Variety remarks that: "Dunst is just right in the difficult part of the child vampire."[10] The film featured a scene in which Dunst, then aged eleven, received her first kiss from Brad Pitt, who was twenty-nine.[11] Her performance earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination,[12] the MTV Award for Best Breakthrough Performance and the Saturn Award for Best Young Actress.[2][13] She also starred alongside Robin Williams in Jumanji in 1995.[14] That same year, she was named one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People,[3] which she repeated in 2002.

In 1997, she was the voice of Young Anastasia in Anastasia.[15] 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.[16] The same year, she had the role of troubled adolescent Lux Lisbon in Sofia Coppola's independent film The Virgin Suicides.[17]

In 2000, she played the captain of a cheerleading squad in Bring It On.[18] 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.[19] She portrayed the neighbor and romantic interest of the mild-mannered superhero in the first film.[20] She was generally well-received in the role,[21][22] and had a now-famous and often-parodied scene in which she kisses the hero while he hangs upside-down from his web.[3][23] 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.[24][25] 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.[26]

Dunst at San Diego Comic-Con International in 2006

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.[27] In 2004, Dunst starred in the critically acclaimed Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind alongside Small Soldiers co-star David Cross.[28][29] She was ranked at #59 on VH1's 100 Greatest Kid Stars.[30]

At the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, Marie Antoinette premiered.[31] It was released in North America on October 20 2006.[32] In the film, her second with director Sofia Coppola, Dunst plays the title character and uses an American accent in the role.[33] Dunst will next be seen in the upcoming film, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, with Simon Pegg.[34] The film is expected to be release in October 2008.[34] She will portray peace activist Marla Ruzicka in Sweet Relief scripted by Lorene Scafaria for Warner Independent Pictures in 2009.[35][36] She is rumored to play the role of Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry in director Michel Gondry's upcoming biopic about the band.[37] Dunst also expressed interest in playing Jean Seberg in an upcoming biopic.[38]

Music

Dunst made her singing debut in the 2001 film Get Over It, performing two songs written by Marc Shaiman.[39] 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".[40] 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.[41] She also appeared in the music video for Savage Garden's "I Knew I Loved You".[42] Dunst also sang two tracks, "This Old Machine" and "Summer Day", on Jason Schwartzman's solo album, Coconut Records.[43]

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.'"[44]

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.[45] However, they broke up in July 2004.[46][47] In March 2007, she dated frontman Johnny Borrell of Razorlight.[48] However, they broke up in the fall of 2007.[45]

Dunst was featured on Richard Blackwell's famous Best Dressed List for 2005.[49]

Dunst confirmed that she was treated for depression early in 2008.[50] She sought treatment at the Cirque Lodge treatment center in Utah.[45][50] She explained that she had been feeling "low" in the six months prior to her going to rehab.[50] In late March, she checked out from the treatment center and began filming All Good Things. In May, she went public with this information to "highlight the struggle faced by so many other successful women" and to dispel false rumors that had "been very painful for my friends and family".[51][52]

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
1989 New York Stories Lisa's daughter Uncredited
1990 The Bonfire of the Vanities Campbell McCoy
1993 Star Trek:The Next Generation Hedril Episode: "Dark Page"
1994 Little Women Younger Amy March
Interview with the Vampire Claudia Golden Globe nomination - Best Supporting Actress
Greedy Jolene
High Strung Young Girl
1995 Jumanji Judy Shepherd
1996 Mother Night Young Resi Noth
1997 Wag the Dog Tracy Limes
Anastasia Young Anastasia Voice
The Outer Limits Joyce Taylor Episode: "Music of the Spheres (The Outer Limits)"
Tower of Terror Anna Petterson
True Heart Bonnie
1998 Kiki's Delivery Service Kiki Voice in English language dubbed version
Fifteen and Pregnant Tina Spangler Television movie
The Hairy Bird Verena von Stefan
Small Soldiers Christy Fimple
1999 Dick Betsy Jobs
Drop Dead Gorgeous Amber Atkins
The Virgin Suicides Lux Lisbon
The Devil's Arithmetic Hannah Stern Television movie
2000 Deeply Silly
Bring It On Torrance Shipman
Luckytown Lidda Doyles
The Crow: Salvation Erin Randall
All Forgotten Zinaida
2001 The Cat's Meow Marion Davies
Crazy/Beautiful Nicole Oakley
Get Over It Kelly Woods/Helena
2002 Spider-Man Mary Jane Watson
2003 Mona Lisa Smile Betty Warren
Kaena: The Prophecy Kaena Voice
Levity Sofia Mellinger
2004 Wimbledon Lizzie Bradbury
Spider-Man 2 Mary Jane Watson
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Mary Svevo
2005 Elizabethtown Claire Colburn
2006 Marie Antoinette Marie Antoinette
2007 Spider-Man 3 Mary Jane Watson National Movie Awards U.K. nomination - Best Actress
2008 How to Lose Friends and Alienate People Alison Olsen post-production
2009 All Good Things post-production
Sweet Relief Marla Ruzicka announced

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Further reading

  • Hill, Anne E. Kirsten Dunst. Lucent Books, 2005. ISBN 1590187156
  • Hurst, Brandon. Kirsten Dunst. A-Jot, 2007. ISBN 1905904495
  • Skin, Mr. Mr. Skin's Skincyclopedia: The A-to-Z Guide to Finding Your Favorite Actresses Naked. Macmillan, 2004. ISBN 0312331444
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