Dunst, Kirsten 1982–

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DUNST, Kirsten 1982

PERSONAL

Full name, Kirsten Caroline Dunst; born April 30, 1982, in Point Pleasant, NJ; daughter of Klaus (a medical services executive) and Inez (an art gallery owner) Dunst.


Addresses: Agent William Morris Agency, 151 El Camino Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90212. Manager Management 360, 9111 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90210. Publicist PMK/HBH, 8500 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 700, Beverly Hills, CA 90211.

Career: Actress. Wooden Spoon Productions, coowner (with mother); appeared in over 70 television commercials, including Baby Uhoh, 198990; appeared in print ad for Tart, 1998; worked as a child model.


Awards, Honors: MTV Movie Award, best breakthrough performance, Golden Globe Award nomination, best supporting actress, YoungStar Award, best performance by a young actress in a drama film, 1994, Chicago Film Critics Association Award, most promising actress, Saturn Award, best performance by a young actor, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror Films, 1995, all for Interview with the Vampire; Boston Society of Film Critics Award, best supporting actress, 1994, for Interview with the Vampire and Little Women; Young Artist Award, best performance by a young actress costarring in a motion picture, 1995, for Little Women; Young Artist Award nomination, best young leading actressfeature film, 1996, for Jumanji; Young-Star Award nomination, best performance by a young actress in a drama TV series, Young Artist Award nomination, best performance in a drama seriesguest starring young actress, 1997, for ER; YoungStar Award, best performance by a young actress in a made for TV movie, 1997, for Every Knee Shall Bow: The Siege at Ruby Ridge; Young Artist Award nomination, best performance in a TV movie/pilot/miniseriesleading young actress, 1998, for Tower of Terror; YoungStar Award, best performance by a young actress in a miniseries/madeforTV movie, 1998, for Fifteen and Pregnant; Young Artist Award nomination, best performance in a feature filmleading young actress, 1999, for Small Soldiers; Young Artist Award nomination, best performance in a TV movie or pilotleading young actress, 2000, for The Devil's Arithmetic; YoungStar Award nomination, best young actress/performance in a motion picture drama, 2000, for The Virgin Suicides; YoungStar Award nomination, best young actress/performance in a motion picture comedy, 2000, for Dick; Young Artist Award nomination, best performance in a feature filmleading young actress, Blockbuster Entertainment Award nomination, favorite actresscomedy, 2001, both for Bring It On; Video Premiere Award nomination, best actress, 2001, for All Forgotten; Teen Choice Award (with Tobey Maguire), filmchoice lip lock, 2002, MTV Movie Awards, best female performance and best kiss (with Maguire), Empire Award, best actress, Saturn Award nomination, best actress, 2003, all for SpiderMan; Silver Ombu, Mar del Plata Film Festival, 2002, for The Cat's Meow.


CREDITS

Film Appearances:

(Uncredited) Lisa's daughter, " Oedipus Wrecks, " New York Stories, Buena Vista, 1989.

Voice of Kiki (Englishlanguage version), Kiki's Delivery Service (animated; also known as Majo no takkyubin and The Witch's Express Mail ), Studio Ghibli/Buena Vista Home Video, 1989.

Campbell McCoy, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Warner Bros., 1990.

Young girl, High Strung (also known as Pissed Off ), Rocket Pictures, 1991.

Jolene, Greedy (also known as Greed ), Universal, 1994.

Claudia, Interview with the Vampire (also known as Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles ), Warner Bros., 1994.

The young Amy March, Little Women, Columbia, 1994.

Judy Shepherd, Jumanji, TriStar, 1995.

Resi Noth, Mother Night, Fine Line, 1996.

Bonnie, True Heart, Orion, 1997.

Voice of the young Anastasia, Anastasia (animated), Twentieth CenturyFox, 1997.

Tracy Lime, Wag the Dog, New Line Cinema, 1997.

Christy Fimple, Small Soldiers (also known as Pienet soturit ), DreamWorks, 1998.

Voice of Becky Thatcher, The Animated Adventures of Tom Sawyer (animated), Family Home Entertainment, 1998.

Verena Von Stefan, Strike (also known as Les filles font la loi, The Hairy Bird, All I Wanna Do, and College femminile ), Miramax, 1998.

Lux Lisbon, The Virgin Suicides (also known as Sofia Coppola's the Virgin Suicides ), Paramount, 1999.

Amber Atkins, Drop Dead Gorgeous (also known as Gnadenlos schoen ), New Line Cinema, 1999.

Betsy Jobs, Dick (also known as Dick, les coulisses de la presidence ), Sony Pictures Entertainment, 1999.

Herself, The Making of " Dick, " 1999.

Erin Randall, The Crow: Salvation (also known as The Crow 3: Toedliche Erloesung ), Dimension Films, 2000.

Lidda Doyles, Luckytown, A Plus Entertainment, 2000.

Torrance Shipman, Bring It On, Universal, 2000.

Silly, Deeply, Myriad Pictures, 2000.

Zinaida, All Forgotten (also known as Lover's Prayer ), Seven Hills Productions, 2000.

Kelly Woods, Get Over It (also known as Get Over It! ), Miramax, 2001.

Nicole Oakley, Crazy/Beautiful, Buena Vista, 2001.

Marion Davies, The Cat's Meow, 2001.

Mary Jane Watson, SpiderMan, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 2002.

Sofia Mellinger, Levity, Columbia, 2003.

Voice of title role, Kaena: La prophetie (also known as Kaena: The Prophecy; animated), Universal, 2003.

Mary, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Focus Features, 2003.

Betty Warren, Mona Lisa Smile, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 2003.

Mary Jane Watson, SpiderMan II, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 2004.

Television Appearances; Series:

(Uncredited) Young child, Loving, 19901991.

Charlene " Charlie " Chiemingo, ER, NBC, 19961997.

Television Appearances; Miniseries:

Sara Weaver, Ruby Ridge: An American Tragedy (also known as Every Knee Shall Bow: The Siege at Ruby Ridge ), CBS, 1996.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Sandra Guard at age eight, Darkness before Dawn, NBC, 1993.

Anna Petterson, Tower of Terror, ABC, 1997.

Tina Spangler, Fifteen and Pregnant, Lifetime, 1998.

Hannah Stern, The Devil's Arithmetic, Showtime, 1999.

Herself, The Mummy Parody, MTV, 2001.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Presenter, The 17th Annual CableACE Awards, TNT, 1995.

Voice, " Children Remember the Holocaust " (also known as " Nothing but Sun " and " Through Their Eyes: Children Remember the Holocaust "), CBS Schoolbreak Special, CBS, 1995.

Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond, UPN, 1996.

Teen People's 21 Hottest Stars under 21, ABC, 1999.

The Fake ID Club, MTV, 2000.

Herself, The 2000 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, Fox, 2000.

Herself, The 2001 IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards, Independent Film Channel, 2001.

Host, The 2001 MTV Movie Awards, MTV, 2001.

Herself, The 74th Annual Academy Awards, ABC, 2002.

Herself, SpiderMania, 2002.

Herself, MTV Video Music Awards 2002 (also known as VMAs 2002 ), MTV, 2002.

Herself, 2003 MTV Movie Awards, MTV, 2003.

MTV Presents Teen People Magazine's 25 Hottest Stars under 25, MTV, 2003.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Girl in George Bush sketch, Saturday Night Live (also known as NBC's Saturday Night, Saturday Night, and SNL ), NBC, 1989.

Hedril, " Dark Page, " Star Trek: The Next Generation (also known as Star Trek: TNG ), syndicated, 1993.

Kitten Margolis, " Dear Georgie, " Sisters, 1993.

Kitten Margolis, " The Land of the Lost Children, " Sisters, 1993.

Late Show with David Letterman, 1995, 1996, 2001, 2002.

Amy Ann McCoy, " Into the Light, " Touched by an Angel, CBS, 1996.

Sondra, " The Hole, " Gun, ABC, 1997.

Joyce, " Music of the Spheres, " The Outer Limits, Showtime, 1997.

Voice of Gerda, " The Snow Queen, " Stories from My Childhood (also known as Mikhail Baryshnikov's Stories from My Childhood ), PBS, 1997.

Voice of Alice, " Alice and the Mystery of the Third Planet, " Stories from My Childhood (also known as Mikhail Baryshnikov's Stories from My Childhood ), PBS, 1997.

Herself, The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, CBS, 2000, 2001.

Herself, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NBC, 2001, 2002.

Herself, " Young Hollywood, " E! Rank, E! Entertainment Television, 2002.

Herself, Rove Live, Ten Network, 2002.

Host, Saturday Night Live (also known as NBC's Saturday Night, Saturday Night, and SNL ), NBC, 2002.

Herself, Breakfast, BBC, 2003.

Also appeared in Storytime, PBS.

RECORDINGS

Videos:

(Uncredited) Girl on subway, " I Knew I Loved You, " Savage Garden: Superstars and Cannonballs: Live and on Tour in Australia, 2000.

Music Videos:

Appeared in " Playground Love " by Air, 2000; " The Best Things " by Filter, 2000; " As If " by Blaque, 2000; " Itch " by Vitamin C, 2000.

OTHER SOURCES

Books:

Newsmakers, Issue 4, Gale Group, 2001.

Periodicals:

Entertainment Weekly, June 29, 2001, p. 26.

Interview, June, 2000, p. 80.

People Weekly, November 28, 1994, pp. 139140; May 13, 2002, p. 182; June 3, 2002, p. 73.