Kirsten Dunst
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Biography
Kirsten Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982) is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and four Golden Globe Awards. She made her acting debut in the short Oedipus Wrecks directed by Woody Allen in the anthology film New York Stories (1989). She then gained recognition for her role as child vampiress 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 the fantasy films Jumanji (1995) and Small Soldiers (1998).
In the late 1990s, Dunst transitioned to leading roles in a number of teen films, including the political satire Dick (1999) and the Sofia Coppola-directed drama The Virgin Suicides (1999). In 2000, she starred in the lead role in the cheerleading film Bring It On, which has become a cult classic. She gained further wide attention for her role as Mary Jane Watson in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man (2002) and its sequels Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Spider-Man 3 (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 the title character in Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006).
In 2011, Dunst starred as a depressed newlywed in Lars von Trier's science fiction 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, which earned Dunst a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. She then had a supporting role in the film Hidden Figures (2016) and leading roles in The Beguiled (2017), and the black comedy series On Becoming a God in Central Florida (2019), for which she received a third Golden Globe nomination. She earned nominations for her fourth Golden Globe and first Academy Award nomination for her performance in the psychological drama The Power of the Dog (2021).
Known For
Saturday Night Live
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Oscars
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Touched by an Angel
The Graham Norton Show
Black Mirror
The Daily Show
Today
Teen Choice Awards
The Early Show
ER
The Jonathan Ross Show
CBS News Sunday Morning
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Drunk History
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
The Outer Limits
MTV Movie & TV Awards
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
The Bling Ring
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Fargo
Wag the Dog
Anastasia
Interview with the Vampire
Hidden Figures
Little Women
Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing
Spider-Man
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Virgin Suicides
The Power of the Dog
The Beguiled
Small Soldiers
Spider-Man 3
Mona Lisa Smile
Jumanji
Spider-Man 2
Elizabethtown
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Tower of Terror
The Two Faces of January
All Good Things
Bachelorette
Get Over It
Wimbledon
Civil War
Bring It On
Melancholia
On Becoming a God in Central Florida
Marie Antoinette
Production Credits
Originals for Netflix
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