KIRSTEN DUNST BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:

Kirsten Dunst was born on April 30th, 1982 in Point Pleasant, New Jersey with the birth name Kirsten Caroline Dunst, born to parents Laus and Inez Dunst.  Her parents separated when she was a young girl. Dunst became involved in the entertainment industry at the age of three working on a number of television commercials.  At the age of seven she made her film debut in, "New York Stories" (1989) and then her family relocated to Los Angeles, California to help her career and she was signed with Ford Models as well as Elite Model Management.
 
She is most remembered for her role alongside Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in, "Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles" (1994), a role that earned her a Golden Globe nomination as well as a MTV Award and the Saturn Award for Best Young Actress.
 
Kirsten's career took off with roles in such films as, "Little Women" (1994), "Jumanji" (1995), "Small Soldiers" (1998), "The Virgin Suicides" (1999) and "Bring it On" (2000).  She was then cast in one of the most successful films of her career, "Spider-Man" (2002) playing Mary Jane Watson. The film was a box office success and opened a number of doors for her career including roles in, "Levity" (2003), "Mona Lisa Smile" (2003), "Wimbledon" (2004), "Spider-Man II" (2004), "Elizabethtown" (2005), "Marie Antoinette" (2006), "Spider-Man III" (2007), "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People" (2008), "All Good Things" (2010) and "Melancholia" (2011) for which she won a Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival.
 
Her latest roles have been in, "Bachelorette" (2011) and soon to release, "Cities" (2013) and "Red Light Winter" (2013).
 
Along with her acting career, Dunst also earned her high sSchool diploma in 2000 from Notre Dame High and had a brief singing career in a couple films and sang two tracks on Jason Schwartzman's solo album, "Nighttiming" in 2007. 
 
Kirsten also owns a production company with her mother called, Wooden Spoon Productions.  She has not yet married nor does she have any children of her own.  She is involved in a number of charitable causes such as participating in the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation for which she assisted in designing a necklace that all proceeds went to the Foundation.  She is also involved in promoting Breast Cancer awareness and helps raise funds to treat cancer. 
 
Dunst currently resides in New York and Los Angeles and hopes to one day transition from actress to director.   

Filmography

2012 Cities 
2012 On the Road
2012 Bachelorette 
2012 Upside Down 
2011 Charm
2011 Melancholia
2011 Fight for Your Right Revisited
2010 All Good Things 
2010 The Second Bakery Attack
2008 How to Lose Friends & Alienate People 
2007 Spider-Man 3
2006 Marie Antoinette 
2005 Elizabethtown 
2004 Wimbledon 
2004 Spider-Man 2 
2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2003 Mona Lisa Smile 
2003 Kaena: The Prophecy 
2003 Levity 
2003 The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton
2002 Spider-Man 
2001 Lover's Prayer
2001 The Cat's Meow 
2001 Crazy/Beautiful
2001 Get Over It 
2000 Deeply
2000 Bring It On 
2000 Luckytown 
2000 The Crow: Salvation 
1999 Dick
1999 Drop Dead Gorgeous
1999 The Virgin Suicides
1999 The Devil's Arithmetic
1999 True Heart
1998 All I Wanna Do
1998 The Animated Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1998 Small Soldiers
1998 Fifteen and Pregnant 
1998 Stories from My Childhood
1997 Wag the Dog
1997 Anastasia
1997 Tower of Terror
1997 Gun 
1996-1997 ER
1997 The Outer Limits 
1996 Touched by an Angel
1996 Mother Night 
1996 The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1995 CBS Schoolbreak Special
1995 Jumanji
1994 Little Women 
1994 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles 
1994 Greedy 
1993 Star Trek: The Next Generation 
1993 Sisters
1993 Darkness Before Dawn 
1991 High Strung 
1990-1991 Loving
1990 The Bonfire of the Vanities 
1988-1990 Saturday Night Live
1989 Kiki's Delivery Service 
1989 New York Stories