Kirsten Dunst

Known for ActingBorn 1982-04-30 (age 44)Point Pleasant, New Jersey, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Frame

Teen Choice Awards

Revisiting The Virgin Suicides

Cosmos

Fargo

Black Mirror

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Hidden Figures

Aspirational

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

MTV Movie & TV Awards

Darkness Before Dawn

ER

Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens

Torn Asunder: Waging Alex Garland's Civil War

The Outer Limits

Anastasia

Akihabara Majokko Princess

Spider-Man

Spider-Man 2

Interview with the Vampire

Roofman

The House That Jack Built

The Graham Norton Show

Melancholia

Conan

Little Women

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The Making of The Virgin Suicides

Jumanji

The Virgin Suicides

Touched by an Angel

Civil War

The Spider-Man Story

The Power of the Dog

Mona Lisa Smile

With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story

Heroes and Demons

Drunk History

Wag the Dog

American Masters

The Devil's Arithmetic

CBS News Sunday Morning

Marie Antoinette

Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy

On Becoming a God in Central Florida

Fight for Your Right Revisited