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Kirsten Caroline Dunst was born on April 30, 1982 in Point Pleasant,
New Jersey, USA. Her father, Klaus Dunst, a medical-services executive,
is now stationed in New Jersey while the rest of his family lives
on the West Coast. Klaus and Kirsten's mother Inez Dunst,
a former art-gallery owner, are divorced. She also has a brother named Christian,
who was born in 1987.
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.) Later 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) with 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 The Virgin Suicides (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, where she was a cheerleader. In 2001, she was a depressed
troublemaker in Crazy/Beautiful, a classic film actress in
The Cat's Meow, and the object of affection in the teen comedy
Get Over It, in which she sang,and was featured on
the soundtrack to the film. This same year Kirsten also co-hosted
the "MTV Movie Awards" alongside Jimmy Fallon.
Kirsten's performance in Spiderman and Spiderman 2, with Tobey Maguire,
once again spotlighted her talent.
She is now working on her own production company with her mother
called "Wooden Spoon Productions."
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