Name: Kirsten Caroline Dunst Nickname: KiKi Birthday:
30th April 1982 Hair/Eyes: Blonde/Blue Family: Inez (Mother), Klaus (Father)
Siblings: Christian (Brother) Pets: 3 Cats, Tazmania, Felix and Zoro and one
dog, Beauty. Birth Place: New Jersey Movie Debut: (1989) New York Stories
Movie Breakthrough: (1994) Interview With The Vampire
Kirsten Caroline
Dunst was born on April 30, 1982 in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, USA to Klaus Dunst,
a German medical-services exec. who's now stationed in New Jersey while the rest
of his family lives on the West Coast. Klaus separated from Kirsten's mother Inez
Dunst, a former art-gallery owner. She also has a brother named Christian, who
was born in 1986. Kirsten started out in showbiz at the age of three, where she
began filming television commercials (a grand total of more than 70). She made
her feature film debut in a segment of Woody Allen's 1989 film New York Stories
(1989) . Shortly after in the same year her family moved to Los Angeles, where
her film career took off.
In 1994 she made her breakthrough performance
in Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) alongside such stars
as Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise. Her performance earned her a Golden Globe nomination,
the MTV Award for Best Breakthrough Performance and the Saturn award for Best
Young Actress. In 1995, she was named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful
People. Over the next few years she made a string of hit movies including Little
Women (1994) , Jumanji (1995) and Small Soldiers (1998) .
2000 was Kirsten's
biggest year yet - she received rave reviews for her role as Lux Lisbon in Sofia
Coppola's Independent film Virgin Suicides, The (1999) . She proved her status
as a leading actress in the comedy hit Bring It On (2000) , and she graduated
from Notre Dame High School in Los Angeles in June of that year. 2002 is the year
that made Kirsten one of Hollywood's leading actresses. Spider-Man (2002) was
released on May 4th and was a smashing box office hit. This movie has brought
Kirsten to the next level in Hollywood.
Kirsten is also working on her
own production company with her mother called "Wooden Spoon Productions."
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