Kirsten Dunst

Born: 1982

Actress

Kirsten Dunst was born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey; her father is German and her mother Swedish. Dunst started out in showbiz at the age of three, where she began filming television commercials. She made her feature film debut in a segment of Woody Allen’s 1989 film New York Stories. Shortly after in the same year her family moved to Los Angeles, where her film career took off.

In 1994 she made her breakthrough performance in “Interview with the Vampire” alongside such stars as Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise. Her performance earned her a Golden Globe nomination, the MTV Award for Best Breakthrough Performance and the Saturn Award for Best Young Actress.

At the 2002 Mar de Plata Film Festival, Dunst won the Best Actress Silver Ombú for her performance as Charlie Chaplin's love interest Marion Davies in Peter Bogdanovich's “The Cat's Meow.” Dunst starred in Sofia Coppola's Virgin Suicides, and major movies such as: “Bring It On,” “Jumanji,” “Mona Lisa Smile,” “Wimbledon,” and as Marie Jane in the Spiderman movies. In 2006 she teamed up again with writer/director Sofia Coppola for “Marie Antoinette.”

She lives in California and has started a production company with her mother, Wooden Spoon Productions.

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