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Kirsten Dunst on the cover of
ES Magazine May 2001 Kirsten Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982 in Point Pleasant, New Jersey) is an American actress of German and Swedish descent. Her title is pronounced "KEER-sten," non "KUR-sten".

Career
Dunst began her acting career at a age of threesome, appearing within television commercials. Around the 1988 episode of Saturday Night Live, she played the role of President George H.W. Bush's granddaughter, in a sketch where Dana Carvey acted as President Bush. Years late, Dunst guest hosted in Saturday Nighttime Survive as an adult.

Dunst late processed a transition to the large screen around her number one film appearance, New York Stories, in 1989. Before long when, she landed a little a portion swimming the girl of Tom Hanks's character in The Bonfire of the Vanities.

Dunst's breakthrough role was inside Interview with the Vampire, a 1994 film based on Anne Rice's novel of the same name and directed by Neil Jordan. This picture features the somewhat controversial scene where Dunst, so aged eleven, experienced to kiss Brad Pitt, who was Twenty-nine. Her virtually all easily-known performances up to now own been in The Virgin Suicides, the cult hit Bring It On, and when Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2.

Dunst won a 2002 Best Actress Silver OmbĂș at the Mar de Plata Film Festival for her performance as Marion Davies in Peter Bogdanovich's ''The Cat's Meow.

Dunst mass produced her singing debut in the 2001 film, Get Over It, in which she performed deuce songs written by Marc Shaiman. She too lent her musical voice to the prevent credits of The Cat's Meow'' by singing the old standard, "After You've Gone."

Supplementary recently, Dunst has played a role of doomed 18th-century royal, Queen Marie Antoinette. A forthcoming motion picture, coroneted Marie-Antoinette, is scheduled for release in Autumn 2006 and is currently within Post-production. These are a third film directed by Sofia Coppola and is based on British historiographer Lady Antonia Fraser's biography of Marie-Antoinette.

Filmography
Kirsten Dunst on the cover of
Entertainment Weekly April 2002 Spider-Man 3 (2007) (pre-production) Marie Antoinette (2006) (filming) Elizabethtown (2005) Wimbledon (2004) Spider-Man 2 (2004) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Mona Lisa Smile (2003) Kaena: The Prophecy (2003) (voice) Levity (2003) Spider-Man (2002) ''The Cat's Meow (2001) Crazy/Beautiful (2001) Get Over It (2001) Deeply (2000) Bring It On (2000) Luckytown (2000) The Crow: Salvation (2000) All Forgotten (2000) Dick (1999) Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) The Virgin Suicides (1999) Fifteen and Pregnant (1998) The Hairy Bird (1998) Small Soldiers (1998) Wag the Dog (1997) Anastasia (1997) (voice) 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 Vanities (1990) Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) (voice in 1998 English dubbed version) New York Stories'' (1989)

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