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Kirsten Dunst

Born 1982-04-30 in Point Pleasant, NJ
An Actor

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In Brief:

Kirsten Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982) is an American actress, perhaps best known for her performances in Jumanji, The Virgin Suicides, Bring It On, and as Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man and its sequels, Spider-Man 2 and the upcoming Spider-Man 3.

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Bio:

Dunst was born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, to Klaus and Inez Dunst, who are separated. Her father, Klaus Dunst, a German medical services executive, remained in New Jersey. Her mother, Inez Dunst, a Swedish former art gallery owner, moved to California. Dunst has a younger brother, Christian, born in 1986.

Dunst graduated from Notre Dame High School, a private Catholic high school in Sherman Oaks, in 2000, but attended the Ranney School during her elementary years.

Dunst started dating fellow actor Jake Gyllenhaal in September 2002, after meeting him through his sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal (her co-star in Mona Lisa Smile). They appear to have broken up in July 2004. The current status of the relationship is unknown.

Dunst began acting at the age of three in television commercials. 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. Years later, Dunst brought this to light when she hosted the show.

In 1989, Dunst moved to the big screen with New York Stories. Soon later, she landed a small part in The Bonfire of the Vanities as Tom Hanks's daughter.

In 1993, Dunst played Hedril in the seventh season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation called "Dark Page".

Her breakthrough performance came in Interview with the Vampire, a 1994 film based on Anne Rice's novel starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas, and Christian Slater, directed by Neil Jordan. This movie features a somewhat controversial scene in which Dunst, then aged eleven, had to kiss Brad Pitt, who was 29.

At the Mar de Plata Film Festival, Dunst won the 2002 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."

More recently, Dunst has played the role of doomed 18th-century royal, Queen Marie Antoinette, in the forthcoming motion picture, titled Marie-Antoinette, which is released in June 2006. It is the third film directed by Sofia Coppola (the second to feature Dunst), and is based on British historian Lady Antonia Fraser's biography of Marie-Antoinette.

Dunst is slated to portray peace activist Marla Ruzicka in a film scripted by Lorene Scafaria for Warner Independent Pictures in late 2006.

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Trivia:

• Drives a 2004-model Toyota Prius.
• Co-starred in the music video for Savage Garden's "I Knew I Loved You" as the love interest of Darren Hayes.
• In 1990, Tom Hanks and Kirsten Dunst were cast as father and daughter in The Bonfire of the Vanities. Years later, Tom Hanks' real life son Colin Hanks and Kirsten Dunst played the parts of brother and sister in Get Over It.
• In 2005, British singer-songwriter Daniel Flay recorded a song entitled Kirsten Dunst, which features the line "Kirsten Dunst, you must be worth a million bucks". The song can be heard at his MySpace page.
• Her first name is pronounced "KEER-sten" (IPA: 'kɪɹs.tn̩).
• She also did the voice for Kiki in the anime dub movie Kiki's Delivery Service

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Filmography:

• Spider-Man 3 (2007)
• Marie-Antoinette (2006)
• Elizabethtown (2005)
• Wimbledon (2004)
• Spider-Man 2 (2004)
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
• Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
• Kaena: The Prophecy (2003)
• Levity (2003)
• Spider-Man (2002)
• The Cat's Meow (2001)
• Crazy/Beautiful (2001)
• Ger Over It (2001)
• Deeply (2000)
• Bring It On (2000)
• Luckytown (2000)
• The CrowL Salvation (2000)
• All Forgotten (2000)
• Dick (1999)
• Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
• The Virgin Suicides (1999)
• The Devil's Arithmetic (1999)
• Fifteen and Pregnant (1998)
• The Hairy Bird (1998)
• Small Soldiers (1998)
• Wag the Dog (1997)
• Anastasia (1997)
• Tower of Terror (1997)
• True Heart (1997)
• Mother Night (1996)
• Jumanji (1995)
• Little Women (1994)
• Interview with the Vampire (1994)
• Greedy (1994)
• High Strung (1994)
• The Bonfire of the Vanitites (1990)
• Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
• New York Stories (1989)

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