Kirsten Dunst Biography
Kirsten Dunst is an American actress and model who rose to prominence in the films Interview with the Vampire, Little Women, and Jumanji, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Dunst began her acting career in 1989 with the short film Oedipus Wrecks in New York Stories.
How old is Kirsten Dunst? – Age
She is 41 years old as of 30 April 2023. She was born in 1982 in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, United States. Her real name is Kirsten Caroline Dunst.
Kirsten Dunst Family – Education
Dunst’s father was a medical services executive for Siemens, while her mother was a flight attendant for Lufthansa. She was also a painter and former gallery owner. Dunst’s German father is originally from Hamburg, while her American mother is of German and Swedish ancestry. Dunst grew up in Brick Township, New Jersey, and attended Ranney School in Tinton Falls until the age of eleven. After her parents divorced, she moved to Los Angeles with her mother and brother in 1993. She started acting while she was a student at Notre Dame High School and continued after she graduated in 2000. She struggled in her teens to cope with her burgeoning celebrity, and for a time she resented her mother for forcing her into acting as a youngster.
Who is Kirsten Dunst’s Husband? – Children
Dunst began dating actor Jake Gyllenhaal in 2002, after Gyllenhaal’s sister and Dunst’s Mona Lisa Smile co-star, Maggie Gyllenhaal, introduced the two. They lived together in Los Angeles before splitting up in 2004, allegedly on good terms. From 2012 until 2016, she was in a relationship with her On the Road co-star Garrett Hedlund, and they were briefly engaged before splitting up.
She began dating her Fargo co-star Jesse Plemons in 2016, and they married in 2017. Their first child was born in May of this year. She confirmed her second pregnancy during a cover shoot for W helmed by long-time collaborator Sofia Coppola, and gave birth to their second son in May 2021. Dunst and Plemons married in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, in July 2022 at a resort.
Kirsten Dunst Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $25 million.
Kirsten Dunst House
Dunst bought a house in Toluca Lake, California, in 2001 and sold it in September 2019 for $4.5 million. She sold a home in Nichols Canyon, California, for $1.4 million in 2010. In 2017, Dunst placed her Lower Manhattan apartment for sale.
Kirsten Dunst Spider-Man
Dunst featured as Mary Jane Watson, Peter Parker’s best friend and love interest, in the critically and commercially acclaimed superhero picture Spider-Man in 2002. The picture made $114 million in North America and $822 million globally. Levity (2003), Mona Lisa Smile (2003), and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) all starred Dunst. In 2004, she reprised her role as Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man 2, which broke the North American opening weekend box office record and made $783 million worldwide. In Wimbledon (2004), Dunst co-starred alongside Paul Bettany a promising tennis player and a fading former tennis star. Although the film got mixed reviews, several critics praised Dunst’s portrayal of a feisty and self-assured player.
Dunst returned to the character of Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man 3 in 2007. In contrast to its predecessors, Spider-Man 3 earned mixed reviews from critics. The New Statesman’s Ryan Gilbey criticized Dunst’s character, saying that “the film-makers couldn’t come up with much for Mary Jane to do other than scream a lot.” Nonetheless, with a global gross of $891 million, it is the series’ most commercially successful film and Dunst’s highest-grossing film to the end of 2008. After initially agreeing to do three Spider-Man films, Jane stated that she might consider doing a fourth if Raimi and Maguire returned. The fourth film was shelved in January 2010, and the Spider-Man film series was relaunched, thereby removing the trio from the franchise.
Kirsten Dunst Vampire
Dunst had her debut in the horror drama Interview with the Vampire, starring alongside Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt and based on Anne Rice’s novel of the same name. Claudia, the child vampire who acts as a surrogate daughter for Cruise and Pitt’s characters, was played by her. Dunst experienced her first onscreen kiss with Pitt, who is over two decades her older, in the picture.
Kirsten Dunst Bring It On
Dunst appeared in the comedy Bring It On in 2000 as Torrance Shipman, the captain of a cheerleading squad. The film received largely excellent reviews, with several critics praising her performance. A. O. Scott praised her “a terrific comic actress, largely because of her great expressive range, and the nimbleness with which she can shift from anxiety to aggression to genuine hurt” in his assessment. Even though he thought the film didn’t give her as fine a role as she had in either Dick or The Virgin Suicides, Salon’s Charles Taylor commented that “among contemporary teenage actresses, Dunst has become the sunniest imaginable parodist.”
The Village Voice’s Jessica Winter commended Dunst’s portrayal, saying it was “as sprightly and knowingly daft as her turn in Dick,” and that “[Dunst] provides the only major element of Bring It On that plays as tweaking parody rather than slick, strident, body-slam churlishness.” Despite giving the film a negative review, Peter Stack of the San Francisco Chronicle praised Dunst for her willingness “to be as silly and cloyingly agreeable as it takes to get through a slapdash film.”
Kirsten Dunst Movies
♦ 2023 – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
♦ 2021 – The Power of the Dog
♦ 2017 – The Beguiled
♦ 2017 – Woodshock
♦ 2016 – Midnight Special
♦ 2016 – Hidden Figures
♦ 2014 – The Two Faces of January
♦ 2014 – Aspirational
♦ 2013 – The Bling Ring
♦ 2013 – Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
♦ 2012 – Bachelorette
♦ 2012 – On the Road
♦ 2012 – Upside Down
♦ 2011 – Fight for Your Right Revisited
♦ 2011 – Touch of Evil
♦ 2011 – Melancholia
♦ 2010 – All Good Things
♦ 2010 – The Second Bakery Attack
♦ 2010 – Bastard
Kirsten Dunst TV Shows
♦ 2019 – On Becoming a God in Central Florida
♦ 2018 – Drunk History
♦ 2017 – Black Mirror
♦ 2015 – Fargo
♦ 2014 – Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
♦ 2014 – Portlandia
♦ 2002 – Saturday Night Live
♦ 1999 – The Devil’s Arithmetic
♦ 1998 – Stories from My Childhood
♦ 1998 – Fifteen and Pregnant
♦ 1997 – Tower of Terror
♦ 1997 – The Outer Limits
♦ 1997 – Gun