Kirsten Dunst
Acting
- Born:
- 1982-04-30
- Place of birth:
- Point Pleasant, New Jersey, USA
Biography
Kirsten Caroline Dunst (/ˈkɪərstən/ KEER-stən; born April 30, 1982) is an American actress. She made her acting debut in the anthology film New York Stories (1989) and has since starred in several films and television productions. She has received several awards, including nominations for an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and four Golden Globe Awards. Dunst first gained recognition for her role as child vampire Claudia in the horror film Interview with the Vampire (1994), which earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She also had roles in her youth in Little Women (1994) and Jumanji (1995). Dunst transitioned to leading roles in teen films of 1999, the satires Dick and Drop Dead Gorgeous and Sofia Coppola's drama The Virgin Suicides. After the leading role in the cheerleading film Bring It On (2000), she gained wider attention for her role as Mary Jane Watson in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007). Her career progressed with a supporting role in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), followed by a lead role in Cameron Crowe's tragicomedy Elizabethtown (2005), and as Marie Antoinette in Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006). In 2011, Dunst starred as a depressed newlywed in Lars von Trier's drama Melancholia, which earned her the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress. In 2015, she played Peggy Blumquist in the second season of the FX series Fargo, earning a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for the role. Dunst had a supporting role in the film Hidden Figures (2016), and leading roles in Coppola's The Beguiled (2017) and in the dark comedy series On Becoming a God in Central Florida (2019), for which she received a third Golden Globe nomination. Dunst earned her fourth nomination for a Golden Globe and first nomination for an Academy Award for her performance in the psychological drama The Power of the Dog (2021). In 2024, she led the dystopian thriller film Civil War. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kirsten Dunst, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
The Housemaid's Secret
A Minecraft Movie Squared
Making Marie Antoinette
Roofman
Torn Asunder: Waging Alex Garland's Civil War
Civil War
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion
The Power of the Dog
The Kelly Clarkson Show
On Becoming a God in Central Florida
Revisiting The Virgin Suicides
Woodshock
The Beguiled
Hidden Figures
Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls
Midnight Special
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Aspirational
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
The Two Faces of January
Fargo
Cosmos
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Mademoiselle C
Drunk History
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
The Bling Ring
The Frame
Upside Down
Heroes and Demons
Bachelorette
On the Road
Black Mirror
The Jonathan Ross Show
Fight for Your Right Revisited
Melancholia
All Good Things
Conan
The Second Bakery Attack
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
Non Plus One
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Covered in Black: Creating Venom
Fighting, Flying and Driving: The Stunts of 'Spider-Man 3'
Tangled Web: The Love Triangles of 'Spider-Man 3'
'Spider-Man 3' on Location: New York, from Rooftops to Backstreets
The Making of Marie Antoinette
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
Spider-Man 3
On the Set: Spider-Man 3
The Graham Norton Show
Marie Antoinette
The Reichen Show
Elizabethtown
Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing
Hero in Crisis
A Look Inside Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Wimbledon
Spider-Man 2
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Mona Lisa Smile
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
VH1 Goes Inside
Punk'd
Levity
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
It Ain't As Easy As It Looks... (...a.k.a. the Making of 'The Cat's Meow')
The Spider-Man Story
Spider-Man
Spider-Mania
Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man'
The Cat's Meow
All Forgotten
Crazy/Beautiful
Get Over It
The Making of The Virgin Suicides
Deeply
Bring It On
Luckytown
In the Shadow of the Vampire: The Making of Interview with the Vampire
The Virgin Suicides
Making Jumanji: The Realm of Imagination
The Crow: Salvation
The Early Show
Dick
Teen Choice Awards
Drop Dead Gorgeous
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
The Devil's Arithmetic
True Heart
TRL
Strike!
The Animated Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Small Soldiers
Fifteen and Pregnant
Wag the Dog
Anastasia
Tower of Terror
The View
Gun
Mother Night
The Daily Show
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
Jumanji
The Outer Limits
Little Women
Interview with the Vampire
Touched by an Angel
ER
Greedy
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Darkness Before Dawn
MTV Movie & TV Awards
High Strung
The Bonfire of the Vanities
New York Stories
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Star Trek: The Next Generation
American Masters
CBS News Sunday Morning
Saturday Night Live
The Oscars
Today
The Entertainment System Is Down
Self Help
Rhubarb
Ruben
The Raccoon Killer