Kirsten Dunst Biography
Early life
Dunst was born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, parents Klaus and Inez Dunst, who are separated. Her father, a German medical services executive, remained in New Jersey. Her mother, a Swedish former art gallery owner, moved to California. Dunst has a younger brother, Christian who was born in 1986.
Dunst attended the Ranney School in New Jersey, but graduated in 2000 from Notre Dame High School in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
Career
Dunst got her start as a child fashion model at the age of three in television commercials. She was signed with Ford Models and Elite Model Management.
In a 1988 episode of Saturday Night Live, she played the role of President George H. W. Bush's granddaughter, in a sketch in which Dana Carvey acted as President Bush.
She made her feature film debut in a segment of Woody Allen's film New York Stories (1989). Shortly after in the same year her family moved to Los Angeles, where her film career took off.. Soon after, she landed a small part in The Bonfire of the Vanities as Tom Hanks's daughter. Dunst also did the voice of Kiki in the 1989 anime film Kiki's Delivery Service. In 1993, Dunst played Hedril in the seventh season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation called "Dark Page".
Her feature film breakthrough came in Interview with the Vampire, a 1994 film based on Anne Rice's novel. The movie featured a scene in which Dunst, then-aged eleven, had to kiss Brad Pitt, who was 29.
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 made her singing debut in the 2001 film, Get Over It, performing two songs written by Marc Shaiman. She also lent her musical voice to the end credits of The Cat's Meow by singing the old standard, "After You've Gone." Dunst had previously appeared in the music video for Savage Garden's "I Knew I Loved You" as the love interest of Darren Hayes.
Dunst played the title role in Marie-Antoinette, which premiered at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. It is the second time Dunst has starred in a film directed by Sofia Coppola "Virgin Suicides". Dunst is slated to portray peace activist Marla Ruzicka in a film scripted by Lorene Scafaria for Warner Independent Pictures.
She is now working on her own production company with her mother called "Wooden Spoon Productions."
Nabbed the lead role of Peter Parker's girlfriend, Mary Jane Watson, in Spider-Man (2002) after Kate Hudson and Alicia Witt turned it down.
Kirsten Dunst Filmography - Movies - TV
- Sweet Relief (2009) (announced) .... Marla Ruzicka
- Spider-Man 3 (2007) .... Mary Jane Watson
... aka Spider-Man 3: The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version)
- Marie Antoinette (2006) .... Marie Antoinette
... aka Marie Antoinette (France)
- Elizabethtown (2005) .... Claire Colburn
- Wimbledon (2004) .... Lizzie Bradbury
... aka Plus belle victoire, La (France)
- Spider-Man 2 (2004) .... Mary Jane Watson
... aka Spider-Man 2: The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version)
- Spider-Man 2 (2004) (VG) (voice) .... Mary Jane Watson
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) .... Mary
- Mona Lisa Smile (2003) .... Betty Warren
- Kaena: La prophétie (2003) (voice: English version) .... Kaena
... aka Kaena: The Prophecy (USA)
- Levity (2003) .... Sofia Mellinger
- The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton (2003) (TV)
- "Saturday Night Live"
... aka SNL (USA: informal title)
... aka SNL 25 (USA)
- Episode #27.19 (2002) TV Episode .... Host
- Episode #15.10 (1990) TV Episode .... Girl in Bizilady Commercial
- Episode #14.5 (1988) TV Episode (uncredited) .... George Bush's Granddaughter
- Spider-Man (2002) .... Mary Jane Watson
- The Cat's Meow (2001) .... Marion Davies
- Crazy/Beautiful (2001) .... Nicole Oakley
- Get Over It (2001) .... Kelly Woods/Helena
... aka Get Over It! (USA: promotional title)
- Deeply (2000) .... Silly
... aka Deeply (Germany)
... aka Sur fond d'océan (Canada: French title)
- Bring It On (2000) .... Torrance Shipman
- Luckytown (2000) .... Lidda Doyles
- The Crow: Salvation (2000) .... Erin Randall
... aka The Crow III - Tödliche Erlösung (Germany: DVD title)
- Savage Garden: Superstars and Cannonballs: Live and on Tour in Australia (2000) (V) (uncredited) .... Girl on Subway ("I Knew I Loved You")
- All Forgotten (2000) .... Zinaida
... aka Lover's Prayer (USA)
- Dick (1999) .... Betsy Jobs
... aka Dick, les coulisses de la présidence (France)
- Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) .... Amber Atkins
... aka Gnadenlos schön (Germany)
- The Virgin Suicides (1999) .... Lux Lisbon
... aka Sofia Coppola's the Virgin Suicides (USA: complete title)
- The Devil's Arithmetic (1999) (TV) .... Hannah Stern
- Strike! (1998) .... Verena von Stefan
... aka The Hairy Bird (Australia) (Canada: English title: working title)
... aka All I Wanna Do (USA: new title)
... aka College femminile (Italy)
... aka Filles font la loi, Les (Canada: French title)
- The Animated Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1998) (V) (voice) .... Becky Thatcher
- Small Soldiers (1998) .... Christy Fimple
- Fifteen and Pregnant (1998) (TV) .... Tina Spangler
- "Stories from My Childhood" (voice) .... Alice/Gerda
... aka Mikhail Baryshnikov's Stories from My Childhood (USA: complete title)
- Alice and the Mystery of the Third Planet (????) TV Episode (voice)
- The Snow Queen (????) TV Episode (voice)
- Wag the Dog (1997) .... Tracy Lime
- Anastasia (1997) (voice) .... Young Anastasia
- Tower of Terror (1997) (TV) .... Anna Petterson
- "Gun"
... aka Robert Altman's Gun
- The Hole (1997) TV Episode .... Sondra
- "ER"
- One More for the Road (1997) TV Episode .... Charlie Chiemingo
- Post Mortem (1997) TV Episode .... Charlie Chiemingo
- Night Shift (1997) TV Episode .... Charlie Chiemingo
- Homeless for the Holidays (1996) TV Episode .... Charlie Chiemingo
- Union Station (1996) TV Episode .... Charlie Chiemingo
- "The Outer Limits"
... aka The New Outer Limits (USA: promotional title)
- Music of the Spheres (1997) TV Episode .... Joyce Taylor
- True Heart (1997) .... Bonnie
- "Touched by an Angel"
- Into the Light (1996) TV Episode .... Amy Ann McCoy
- Mother Night (1996) .... Young Resi Noth
- The Siege at Ruby Ridge (1996) (TV) .... Sara Weaver
... aka Ruby Ridge: An American Tragedy
- Jumanji (1995) .... Judy Shepherd
- Little Women (1994) .... Younger Amy March
- Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) .... Claudia
... aka Interview with the Vampire (USA: short title)
- Greedy (1994) .... Jolene
- "Star Trek: The Next Generation"
... aka Star Trek: TNG (USA: promotional abbreviation)
- Dark Page (1993) TV Episode .... Hedril
- "Sisters"
- The Land of the Lost Children (1993) TV Episode .... Kitten Margolis
- Dear Georgie (1993) TV Episode .... Kitten Margolis
- Darkness Before Dawn (1993) (TV) .... Sandra Guard (age 8)
- High Strung (1991) .... Young Girl
... aka Pissed Off (USA: alternative title)
- "Loving" (1983) TV Series (uncredited) .... Young Child (1990-1991)
- The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) .... Campbell McCoy
- Majo no takkyűbin (1989) (voice: English version) .... Kiki
... aka Kiki's Delivery Service (USA)
... aka The Witch's Express Mail (literal title)
- New York Stories (1989) (uncredited) .... Lisa's Daughter
Kirsten Dunst Soundtrack - Filmography
- The Cat's Meow (2001) (performer: "After You've Gone" (1918))
- Get Over It (2001) (performer: "Dream of Me", "The Girl Inside")
... aka Get Over It! (USA: promotional title)
