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Kirsten Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982) is an American actress, singer and model. She made her film debut in New York Stories#Oedipus Wrecks|Oedipus Wrecks , a short film directed by Woody Allen for the anthology New York Stories (1989). At the age of 12, Dunst gained widespread recognition playing the role of vampire Claudia (The Vampire Chronicles)|Claudia in Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles|Interview with the Vampire (1994), a performance for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture|Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress . The same year she appeared in Little Women (1994)|Little Women , to further acclaim.

Dunst achieved international fame as a result of her portrayal of Mary Jane Watson in the Spider-Man in film| Spider-Man trilogy (2002–07). Since then her films have included the romantic comedy Wimbledon (film)|Wimbledon (2004), the romantic science fiction Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and Cameron Crowe 's tragicomedy Elizabethtown (film)|Elizabethtown (2005). She played the title role in Sofia Coppola 's Marie Antoinette (2006 film)|Marie Antoinette (2006) and starred in the comedy How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (film)|How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008). She won the Best Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival)|Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 for her performance in Lars von Trier 's Melancholia (2011 film)|Melancholia .

In 2001, Dunst made her singing debut in the film Get Over It (film)|Get Over It , in which she performed two songs. She also sang the jazz song " After You've Gone (song)|After You've Gone " for the end credits of the film '' The Cat's Meow (2001).

Early life

Dunst was born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey , to Inez (née Rupprecht) and Klaus Dunst. She has one younger brother. Her father worked as a medical services executive, and her mother was an artist and one-time gallery owner. Dunst's father is German, originally from Hamburg , and Dunst's mother, who was born in New Jersey, is of German and Swedish descent (Dunst obtained German citizenship in 2011 and now holds dual citizenship with the United States and Germany).

Until the age of six, Dunst lived in Brick Township, New Jersey , where she attended Ranney School .O'Sullivan, Eleanor. , Asbury Park Press , May 4, 2007. Accessed July 5, 2011. "Dunst, who was born in Point Pleasant, raised in Brick and schooled for a while at the Ranney School in Tinton Falls, has achieved an acting career unlike any of her peers." In 1991, she moved with her mother and younger brother to Los Angeles, California, where she attended Laurel Hall Day School. In 1995, her mother filed for divorce. The following year Dunst began attending Notre Dame High School (Sherman Oaks, California)|Notre Dame , a private Catholic high school in Los Angeles.

After graduating from Notre Dame, Dunst continued the acting career that she had begun at the age of eight. As a teenager, she found it difficult to deal with her rising fame, and for a period she blamed her mother for pushing her into acting as a child. However, she later expressed that her mother "always had the best intentions". When asked if she had any regrets about the way she spent her childhood, Dunst said: "Well, it's not a natural way to grow up, but it's the way I grew up and I wouldn't change it. I have my stuff to work out& nbsp;... I don't think anybody can sit around and say: 'My life is more screwed up than yours.' Everybody has their issues."

Career

Early work

Dunst began her career when she was three years old as a child fashion model in television commercials. She was signed with Ford Models and Elite Model Management . At the age of eight years old she made her film debut in a minor role in Woody Allen 's Oedipus Wrecks , a short film that was released as one-third of the anthology New York Stories (1989). Soon after, she landed a small part in The Bonfire of the Vanities (film)|The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), as Tom Hanks 's daughter. In 1993, Dunst played Hedril in " Dark Page (TNG episode)|Dark Page ", the seventh episode of the seventh season of Star Trek: The Next Generation .

Critical success

The breakthrough role in Dunst's career came in Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles|Interview with the Vampire , a 1994 film based on Anne Rice 's novel, in which she played the child vampire Claudia (The Vampire Chronicles)|Claudia , a surrogate daughter to Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt 's characters in the film. The film received ambivalent reviews, but many film critics complimented Dunst's performance. Roger Ebert commented that Dunst's creation of the child vampire Claudia was one of the "creepier" aspects of the film, and mentioned her ability to convey the impression of great age inside apparent youth. Todd McCarthy in Variety (magazine)|Variety noted that Dunst was "just right" for the family. The film featured a scene in which Dunst received her first kiss from Brad Pitt, who was 18 years her senior. In an interview with Interview (magazine)|Interview magazine, she revealed, while questioned about her kissing scene with Pitt, that kissing him had made her feel uncomfortable: "I thought it was gross, that Brad had cooties . I mean, I was 10." Her performance earned her the MTV Movie Awards|MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance, the Saturn Award for Best Young Actress, and her first Golden Globe Award nomination.

Later in 1994, Dunst appeared in the adaptation of the drama Little Women (1994 film)|Little Women opposite Winona Ryder and Claire Danes . The film received favorable reviews. Critic Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that the film was the greatest Little Women|adaptation of the novel and 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."

In 1995, she appeared in the fantasy movie Jumanji (film)|Jumanji , loosely based on Chris Van Allsburg 's 1981 Jumanji|book of the same name . The story is about a supernatural and ominous board game which makes animals and other jungle hazards appear upon each roll of the dice. She was part of an ensemble cast that included Robin Williams , Bonnie Hunt , and David Alan Grier . The movie grossed $262& nbsp;million worldwide. That year, and again in 2002, she was named one of People (magazine)|People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People. In 1996, Dunst had a recurring role in the third season of NBC 's medical drama ER (TV series)|ER . She portrayed a child prostitute, Charlie Chiemingo, taken under the guidance of Doug Ross|Dr. Doug Ross , played by George Clooney . In 1997, she was the voice of Young Anastasia in the animated musical film Anastasia (1997 film)|Anastasia . Also in 1997, Dunst appeared in the political satire Wag the Dog , opposite Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman . The following year she was the voice of the title character, Kiki, a 13-year-old apprentice witch who leaves her home village to spend a year on her own, in the anime movie '' Kiki's Delivery Service (1998).

Dunst was offered the role of Angela in the 1999 drama film American Beauty (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 . She later explained: "When I read it, I was 15 and I don't think I was mature enough to understand the script's material." That same year, she appeared in the comedy Dick (film)|Dick , alongside Michelle Williams (actress)|Michelle Williams . The film is a parody retelling the events of the Watergate scandal which lead to the resignation of U.S. president Richard Nixon .

In Sofia Coppola 's independent film The Virgin Suicides (film)|The Virgin Suicides (1999), Dunst played the role of troubled adolescent Lux Lisbon. The film was screened as a special presentation at the 43rd San Francisco International Film Festival in 2000. The movie received generally favorable reviews, and San Francisco Chronicle critic Peter Stack noted in his review that Dunst "beautifully balances innocence and wantonness."

In 2000, she played Torrance Shipman, the captain of a cheerleading squad in Bring it On (film)|Bring It On . The film generated mostly critical reviews, with Charles Taylor of Salon.com writing that the film had failed to provide Dunst with as good a role as she had either in Dick or in The Virgin Suicides. However, Jessica Winter of The Village Voice complimented Dunst, stating that her performance was "as sprightly and knowingly daft as her turn in Dick . She provides the only major element of Bring It On that plays as tweaking parody rather than slick, strident, body-slam churlishness." The movie grossed $90& nbsp;million worldwide.

The following year, Dunst had the lead in the teen comedy Get Over It (film)|Get Over It (2001). She later explained that one of the reasons for accepting the role was that it gave her the opportunity to sing. Also in 2001, she depicted the late American actress Marion Davies in '' The Cat's Meow , directed by Peter Bogdanovich . Derek Elley of Variety'' described the film as "playful and sporty," saying that this was Dunst's best performance to date: "Believable as both a spoiled ingenue and a lover to two very different men, Dunst endows a potentially lightweight character with considerable depth and sympathy." In the Esquire (magazine)|Esquire review, Tom Carson called her performance "terrific." For her work, she won the Best Actress Silver Ombú category award at the 2002 Mar del Plata Film Festival .

Spider-Man and after

In the 2002 superhero film Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man , the most successful film of her career to date, Dunst played Mary Jane Watson , the best friend and love interest of the title character, played by Tobey Maguire . The film was directed by Sam Raimi . Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly remarked on Dunst's ability to "lend even the smallest line a tickle of flirtatious music." In the Los Angeles Times review, critic Kenneth Turan noted that Dunst and Maguire made a real connection on screen, concluding that their relationship involved audiences to an extent rarely seen in films. Spider-Man was a commercial and critical success. The movie grossed $114& nbsp;million during its opening weekend in North America and went on to earn $822& nbsp;million worldwide.

Following the success of Spider-Man , Dunst appeared in the independent drama Levity (film)|Levity (2003), where she had a supporting role. That same year she starred in Mona Lisa Smile (2003). She was part of an ensemble cast that included Julia Roberts , Maggie Gyllenhaal , and Julia Stiles . The film generated mostly negative reviews, with Manohla Dargis of the Los Angeles Times describing it as "smug and reductive." She next appeared in the supporting role of Mary Svevo in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), alongside Jim Carrey , Kate Winslet , and Tom Wilkinson . The latter film received very positive reviews, with Entertainment Weekly describing Dunst's subplot as "nifty and clever." The movie grossed $72& nbsp;million worldwide.

The success of the first Spider-Man film led Dunst to reprise the role in the 2004 sequel, Spider-Man 2 . The movie was well received by critics and a financial success, setting a new opening weekend box office record for North America. With revenue of $783& nbsp;million worldwide, it was the second highest grossing film in 2004. Also in 2004, she portrayed a rising tennis player in the Wimbledon Championships opposite Paul Bettany , who played a fading former tennis star in the romantic comedy Wimbledon (film)|Wimbledon . Reception for the movie was mixed, but many critics enjoyed Dunst's performance. Claudia Puig of USA Today reported that the chemistry between Dunst and Bettany was potent, with Dunst doing a fine job as a sassy and self-assured player.

In 2005, she appeared as flight attendant Claire Colburn alongside Orlando Bloom , in Elizabethtown (film)|Elizabethtown , a movie written and directed by Cameron Crowe . The film premiered at the 2005 Toronto Film Festival . Dunst revealed that working with Crowe was enjoyable, but more demanding than she had expected. The movie garnered mixed reviews, with the Chicago Tribune rating it one out of four stars and describing Dunst's portrayal of a flight attendant as "cloying." It was a box office disappointment.

Dunst's next film role was the Marie Antoinette|title character in the 2006 biographical film Marie Antoinette (2006 film)|Marie Antoinette . Adapted from Antonia Fraser 's book Marie Antoinette: The Journey , the film was Dunst's second with director Sofia Coppola. The movie was screened at a special presentation at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival , and was reviewed favourably. International revenues were $45& nbsp;million out of $60& nbsp;million overall.

In 2007 she again played Mary Jane Watson, in Spider-Man 3 . In contrast to the previous two films' positive reviews, Spider-Man 3 was met with a mixed reception by critics. Nonetheless, with a total worldwide gross of $891& nbsp;million, it stands as the most commercially successful Spider-Man in film#Box office performance|film in the series and Dunst's highest grossing film to the end of 2008. Having initially signed on for three Spider-Man films, she revealed that she would do a fourth, but only if Raimi and Maguire also returned. In January 2010 it was announced that the Spider-Man franchise would be Reboot (fiction)|restarted , thus dropping Dunst, Maguire, and Raimi from the film series.

In 2008, Dunst starred alongside Simon Pegg in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (film)|How to Lose Friends and Alienate People , an adaptation of the How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (memoir)|memoir of the same name by former Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair contributing editor Toby Young . After she signed on to the film, she revealed that she had joined the project because Pegg was scheduled to appear in it.

Since 2010, Dunst's work has included directing the short film Bastard which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2010, and was later featured at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival . Her next role was in a leading role opposite Ryan Gosling in the romantic drama All Good Things (film)|All Good Things (2010) in which she portrays a woman from a run-down neighborhood who goes missing. The feature received reasonable reviews, and earned $640& nbsp;thousand worldwide. Dunst stars in Lars von Trier 's science-fiction film Melancholia (2011 film)|Melancholia as a depressed woman at the end of the world. The film, which also stars Charlotte Gainsbourg , Kiefer Sutherland and Charlotte Rampling premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival . Dunst won the Best Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival)|Best Actress Award award for her performance.Chang, Justin and Debruge, Peter. , Variety (magazine)|Variety , May 22, 2011. Retrieved May 25, 2011.Kilday, Gregg. , The Hollywood Reporter , May 22, 2011. Retrieved May 25, 2011.

Dunst has signed to appear in Sweet Relief as peace activist Marla Ruzicka , a U.S. relief worker killed by a suicide bomb in Baghdad. She has expressed interest in playing the role of Blondie (band)|Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry in Michel Gondry 's upcoming biographical film about the band. Dunst is due to appear in Juan Diego Solanas ' science fiction-romance film Upside Down (film)|Upside Down co-starring Jim Sturgess . Dunst has also recently filmed the short film The Second Bakery Attack with Brian Geraghty .Bakery Attack">

Reports have also stated that she will join Kristen Stewart , Sam Riley , and Garrett Hedlund in the upcoming feature, On the Road (2011 film)|On the Road . She will make a cameo appearance in the upcoming short feature Fight for Your Right Revisited . It premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival . As of September 2011, Dunst finished filming the independent comedy, Bachelorette , produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay . Reports have stated that she will join Clive Owen and Orlando Bloom in the international thriller titled 'Cities'. Filming will begin in Spring of 2012. In January 2012, Dunst will also star alongside Mark Ruffalo and Billy Crudup in the drama film, Red Light Winter (film)|Red Light Winter .

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. Dunst revealed that she recorded the songs earlier and later lip-synced to it when filming began. She also appeared in the music videos for Savage Garden 's " I Knew I Loved You ," and R.E.M. 's " We All Go Back to Where We Belong " and she sang two tracks—"This Old Machine" and "Summer Day"—on Jason Schwartzman 's 2007 solo album Nighttiming . In an interview with The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser , Dunst explained that she has no plans to follow the steps of other actors who release albums, saying: "Definitely not. No way. It worked when Barbra Streisand was doing it, but now it's a little cheesy, I think. It works better when singers are in movies."

Dunst starred as the magical princess Majokko in the Takashi Murakami and McG directed short Akihabara Majokko Princess singing a cover of " Turning Japanese ". This was shown at the "Pop Life" exhibition in London's Tate Modern museum. It shows Dunst prancing around Akihabara , a crowded shopping district in Tokyo. The exhibition was held from October 1, 2009 to January 17, 2010 in London.

Personal life

Dunst has reportedly been involved in short-term relationships with actor Jake Gyllenhaal , and musician Johnny Borrell of Razorlight .

Dunst was treated for Major depressive disorder|depression in early 2008 at the Cirque Lodge treatment center in Utah . She explained that she had been feeling low in the six months before her admission. In late March she checked out of the treatment center and began filming All Good Things (film)|All Good Things . In May she went public with this information in order to highlight the struggle faced by so many other successful women and to dispel false rumors that had been very painful for her friends and family. She has also gone public detailing her "sedate lifestyle" and the fact that she has a single apartment in New York with one bedroom. She is Lutheran . http://guardianlutheran.org/BlogRetrieve.aspx? BlogID=4518& PostID=96696

Citizenship

She gained German citizenship in 2011 and now holds dual citizenship with Germany and the U.S.

Politics

Dunst supported Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic candidate John Kerry in the United States presidential election, 2004|2004 U.S. presidential election . Four years later, she supported Democrat Barack Obama in the United States presidential election, 2008|2008 presidential election . Dunst revealed that she supported Obama "from the beginning" of the presidential campaign. In support of this, she directed and narrated a documentary entitled Why Tuesday , explaining the United States tradition of voting on Tuesdays. Dunst explained that Tuesday is "not a holiday, and one of the lowest democratic countries in voter turnout." She felt it important to "influence people in a positive way" to vote on November 4.

Charity work

Her charity work includes participation with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation , in which she helped design and promote a necklace, for which all proceeds from sales went to the Glaser foundation. She also has helped with breast cancer awareness; in September 2008 she participated in the Stand Up to Cancer telethon, to help raise funds to accelerate cancer research. On December 5, 2009, she participated in the Teletón (Mexico)|Teletón in Mexico, to help raise funds to treat cancer and children rehabilitation.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	New York Stories	Lisa's daughter	Uncredited
1990	sortname>The	Campbell McCoy
1991	High Strung	Young Girl
1993	Darkness Before Dawn	Sandra Guard
1993	Sisters	Kitten Margolis	Episode: "Dear Georgie" Episode: "The Land of the Lost Children"
1993	Star Trek: The Next Generation	Hedril	Episode: " Dark Page "
1994	Greedy	Jolene
1994	Interview with the Vampire	Claudia (The Vampire Chronicles)>Claudia	Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 1994>Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Actress MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance Nominated– Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated– Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress& nbsp;– Motion Picture Nominated– Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress
1994	Little Women	Younger Amy March	Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated–Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress
1995	Jumanji	Judy Shepherd	Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor
1996	sortname>The	Sara Weaver	YoungStar Awards 1997: Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Made For TV Movie
1996	Mother Night	Young Resi Noth
1996	Touched by an Angel	Amy Ann McCoy	Into the Light "
1996	ER	Charlie Chiemingo	Ghosts " Episode: " List of ER episodes#Season 3: 1996–1997
1997	sortname>The	Joyce Taylor	Music of the Spheres "
1997	Tower of Terror	Anna Petterson
1997	Anastasia	Young Anastasia	Voice
1997	Gun	Sondra	Episode: "The Hole"
1997	Wag the Dog	Tracy Limes
1997	True Heart	Bonnie
1998	Stories from My Childhood	Alice/ Ivett	Episode: "The Snow Queen" Episode: "Alice and the Mystery of the Third"
1998	Fifteen and Pregnant	Tina Spangler	Television movie
1998	'' Kiki's Delivery Service	Kiki	Voice in English language dubbed version
1998	Small Soldiers	Christy Fimple
1998	sortname>The	Verena von Stefan
1998	sortname>The	Becky Thatcher	Voice
1999	sortname>The	Hannah Stern	Television movie
1999	sortname>The	Lux Lisbon	Teen Choice Award for Film& nbsp;– Choice Actress
1999	Drop Dead Gorgeous (film)>Drop Dead Gorgeous	Amber Atkins
1999	Dick	Betsy Jobs
2000	''Lover's Prayer	Zinaida
2000	sortname>The	Erin Randall
2000	Luckytown	Lidda Doyles
2000	Bring It On (film)>Bring It On	Torrance Shipman
2000	Deeply	Silly
2001	Get Over It (film)>Get Over It	Kelly Woods/ Helena	Nominated–Teen Choice Award for Film—Choice Chemistry
2001	Crazy/ Beautiful	Nicole Oakley
2001	sortname>The	Marion Davies	Mar del Plata Film Festival for Best Actress
2002	Spider-Man	Mary Jane Watson#Films>Mary Jane Watson	Empire Movie Award for Best Actress MTV Movie Award for Best Performance
2002	Saturday Night Live	Host	Season 27 Episode 524
2003	sortname>The		TV
2003	Levity	Sofia Mellinger
2003	Kaena: The Prophecy	Kaena	Voice
2003	Mona Lisa Smile	Betty Warren	Nominated–Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Sleazebag
2004	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Mary Svevo	Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble
2004	Spider-Man 2	Mary Jane Watson	Nominated– People's Choice Awards>People's Choice Award for Favorite On-Screen Chemistry
2004	Wimbledon	Lizzie Bradbury
2005	Elizabethtown	Claire Colburn
2006	Marie Antoinette	Marie Antoinette	ShoWest Award for Female Star of the Year
2007	Spider-Man 3	Mary Jane Watson	Nominated–Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie: Liplock Nominated–Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress: Action Adventure Nominated– National Movie Awards>National Movie Award for Best Performance by a Female
2008	How to Lose Friends and Alienate People	Alison Olsen
2010	sortname>The	Nat	Short film
2010	All Good Things	Katie Marks
2011		Metal Chick	Short film
2011	Melancholia	Justine	Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress (Prix d'interprétation féminine) Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress Robert Award
2012	Bachelorette	Regan	completed
2012	On the Road	Camille	completed
2012	Upside Down (film)>Upside Down	Eve	completed
2012	Red Light Winter	Christina	pre-production
2013	The Bling Ring		Filming

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