She also starred in Sarah Kernochan's period comedy All I Wanna Do (1998), playing a student at an all girls' boarding school in the 1960s, opposite Gaby Hoffmann, Rachael Leigh Cook, and Lynn Redgrave.
Garnering mostly favorable reviews, the Los Angeles Times complimented the 1960s Greek setting and observed Dunst "brings a potent complexity to Colette; every mood shift registers to the bone".
Playing Colette MacFarland, the wife of a con artist, the thriller is based on Patricia Highsmith's 1964 novel of the same name.
It is a remake of Don Siegel's 1971 film of the same name about a wounded Union soldier who seeks shelter at an all-girls' school in the Confederate States.
It works better when singers are in movies". Dunst starred as the magical princess Majokko in the Takashi Murakami and McG directed short Akihabara Majokko Princess singing a cover of The Vapors' 1980 song "Turning Japanese".
Janet Maslin of The New York Times hailed it as the greatest adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel of the same name and wrote of Dunst's performance: In 1995, Dunst starred in the fantasy adventure film Jumanji, a loose adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg's 1981 children's book of the same name.
Kirsten Caroline Dunst (; born April 30, 1982) is an American actress.
She then had a supporting role in the film Hidden Figures (2016) and leading ones in The Beguiled (2017), and the black comedy series On Becoming a God in Central Florida (2019), for which she received a third Golden Globe nomination. ==Early life and family== Kirsten Caroline Dunst was born on April 30, 1982, at Point Pleasant Hospital in Point Pleasant, New Jersey.
She co-starred opposite Ryan Gosling in the mystery drama All Good Things (2010), based on the true story of New York real estate developer Robert Durst, whose wife disappeared in 1982.
She also had roles in her youth in Little Women (1994) and the fantasy films Jumanji (1995) and Small Soldiers (1998). In the late 1990s, Dunst transitioned to leading roles in a number of teen films, including the political satire Dick and the Sofia Coppola-directed drama The Virgin Suicides (both 1999).
Her parents separated in 1993, and she subsequently moved with her mother and brother to Los Angeles, where she attended Laurel Hall School in North Hollywood and Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks.
In 1993, Dunst made a guest appearance in an episode of the science fiction drama The Next Generation. ===1994–2001: Breakthrough=== Dunst's breakthrough role came in 1994, in the horror drama Interview with the Vampire opposite Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, based on Anne Rice's novel of the same name.
In 1993, Dunst made a guest appearance in an episode of the science fiction drama The Next Generation. ===1994–2001: Breakthrough=== Dunst's breakthrough role came in 1994, in the horror drama Interview with the Vampire opposite Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, based on Anne Rice's novel of the same name.
For her performance, she won the MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance and the Saturn Award for Best Young Actress, in addition to receiving a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Later in 1994, Dunst co-starred in the drama film Little Women alongside Winona Ryder and Claire Danes.
In 1995, her mother filed for divorce. After graduating from high school in 2000, Dunst continued acting.
Janet Maslin of The New York Times hailed it as the greatest adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel of the same name and wrote of Dunst's performance: In 1995, Dunst starred in the fantasy adventure film Jumanji, a loose adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg's 1981 children's book of the same name.
In that year, and again in 2002, Dunst was named one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People. From 1996 to 1997, Dunst had a recurring role in season three of the NBC medical drama ER.
In that year, and again in 2002, Dunst was named one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People. From 1996 to 1997, Dunst had a recurring role in season three of the NBC medical drama ER.
In 1997, she voiced Young Anastasia in the animated musical film Anastasia.
Also in 1997, Dunst appeared in the black comedy film Wag the Dog, opposite Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman.
She also had roles in her youth in Little Women (1994) and the fantasy films Jumanji (1995) and Small Soldiers (1998). In the late 1990s, Dunst transitioned to leading roles in a number of teen films, including the political satire Dick and the Sofia Coppola-directed drama The Virgin Suicides (both 1999).
In 2000, she starred in the lead role in the cheerleading film Bring It On, which has become a cult classic.
In 1995, her mother filed for divorce. After graduating from high school in 2000, Dunst continued acting.
The film was screened as a special presentation at the 43rd San Francisco International Film Festival in 2000.
Dunst also appeared in Savage Garden's music video "I Knew I Loved You", the first single from their second and final album Affirmation (1999). In 2000, Dunst starred in the comedy Bring It On as Torrance Shipman, the captain of a cheerleading squad.
Also in 2001, she starred in the historical drama The Cat's Meow, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, as actress Marion Davies.
In a March 2021 cover shoot for W magazine directed by long-time collaborator Sofia Coppola, she announced that she is pregnant with her second child, another boy. In 2001, Dunst purchased a house in Toluca Lake, California but eventually sold it in September 2019 for $4.5 million.
In that year, and again in 2002, Dunst was named one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People. From 1996 to 1997, Dunst had a recurring role in season three of the NBC medical drama ER.
For her performance, she won the Best Actress Silver Ombú award at the 2002 Mar del Plata International Film Festival. ===2002–2009: Stardom with Spider-Man and comedies=== In 2002, Dunst starred opposite Tobey Maguire in the superhero film Spider-Man, the most financially successful film of her career up until this date.
It shows Dunst dancing around Akihabara, a shopping district in Tokyo, Japan. ==Personal life== Dunst dated actor Jake Gyllenhaal from 2002 to 2004, and Razorlight frontman Johnny Borrell in 2007.
The film grossed $72 million worldwide. The success of the first Spider-Man led Dunst to reprise her role as Mary Jane Watson in 2004 in Spider-Man 2.
With box office revenues of $783 million worldwide, it was the second highest-grossing film in 2004.
Also in 2004, Dunst co-starred opposite Paul Bettany in the romantic comedy Wimbledon in which she portrayed a rising tennis player in the Wimbledon Championships, while Bettany portrayed a fading former tennis star.
It shows Dunst dancing around Akihabara, a shopping district in Tokyo, Japan. ==Personal life== Dunst dated actor Jake Gyllenhaal from 2002 to 2004, and Razorlight frontman Johnny Borrell in 2007.
On December 5, 2009, she participated in the Teletón in Mexico, in order to raise awareness for cancer treatment and children's rehabilitation. Dunst endorsed John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.
Claudia Puig of USA Today observed that the chemistry between Dunst and Bettany was potent, with Dunst doing a "fine job as a sassy and self-assured player". In Dunst's sole project of 2005, she co-starred opposite Orlando Bloom in Cameron Crowe's romantic tragicomedy Elizabethtown as flight attendant Claire Colburn.
The film premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival.
The film was screened at a special presentation at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, and was reviewed favorably.
The film grossed $60 million at the box office from a budget of $40 million. In 2007, Dunst reprised the role of Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man 3.
She appeared in the music videos for Savage Garden's "I Knew I Loved You", Beastie Boys' "Make Some Noise" and R.E.M.'s "We All Go Back to Where We Belong" and she sang two tracks which were "This Old Machine" and "Summer Day" on Jason Schwartzman's 2007 solo album Nighttiming.
In 2007, Dunst said she had no intention to release albums, saying, "It worked when Barbra Streisand was doing it, but now it's a little cheesy, I think.
It shows Dunst dancing around Akihabara, a shopping district in Tokyo, Japan. ==Personal life== Dunst dated actor Jake Gyllenhaal from 2002 to 2004, and Razorlight frontman Johnny Borrell in 2007.
Nevertheless, with a worldwide gross of $891 million, it stands as the most commercially successful film in the series and Dunst's highest-grossing film to the end of 2008.
In January 2010, it was announced that the fourth film was canceled and that the Spider-Man film series would be restarted, therefore dropping the trio from the franchise. Dunst's next role was in 2008, in which she co-starred opposite Simon Pegg in the comedy How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, based on former Vanity Fair contributing editor Toby Young's memoir of the same name.
Dunst owned a Lower Manhattan apartment which she listed for sale in 2017. In early 2008, Dunst was treated for depression at the Cirque Lodge treatment center in Utah.
In late March 2008, she left the treatment center and began filming All Good Things.
She worked in support of breast cancer awareness, participating in the Stand Up to Cancer telethon in September 2008 in order to raise funds for cancer research.
She supported Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential election, and directed and narrated a documentary, Why Tuesday, about the tradition of voting on Tuesdays and low voter turnout in the United States, to "influence people in a positive way".
This was shown at the "Pop Life" exhibition in London's Tate Modern museum from October 1, 2009, to January 17, 2010.
On December 5, 2009, she participated in the Teletón in Mexico, in order to raise awareness for cancer treatment and children's rehabilitation. Dunst endorsed John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.
In January 2010, it was announced that the fourth film was canceled and that the Spider-Man film series would be restarted, therefore dropping the trio from the franchise. Dunst's next role was in 2008, in which she co-starred opposite Simon Pegg in the comedy How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, based on former Vanity Fair contributing editor Toby Young's memoir of the same name.
He added that the film "plays like a made-for-CBS redo of The Devil Wears Prada". ===2010–2016: Independent films, television work and dramas=== Dunst made her screenwriting and directorial debut with the short film Bastard, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2010 and was later featured at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
Also in 2010, Dunst co-starred with Brian Geraghty in Carlos Cuarón's short film The Second Bakery Attack, based on Haruki Murakami's short story. In 2011, Dunst co-starred opposite Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland and Charlotte Rampling in Lars von Trier's drama film Melancholia as a woman suffering depression as the world ends.
This was shown at the "Pop Life" exhibition in London's Tate Modern museum from October 1, 2009, to January 17, 2010.
In 2010, she also sold a property in Nichols Canyon, California for $1.4 million.
Her career progressed with a supporting role in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), followed by a lead role in Cameron Crowe's tragicomedy Elizabethtown (2005), and as the title character in Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006). In 2011, Dunst starred as a depressed newlywed in Lars von Trier's science fiction drama Melancholia, which earned her the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress.
Also in 2010, Dunst co-starred with Brian Geraghty in Carlos Cuarón's short film The Second Bakery Attack, based on Haruki Murakami's short story. In 2011, Dunst co-starred opposite Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland and Charlotte Rampling in Lars von Trier's drama film Melancholia as a woman suffering depression as the world ends.
It premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and received positive reviews, in particular for Dunst's performance.
National Society of Film Critics. Dunst made a cameo in Beastie Boys' 2011 music video Fight For Your Right Revisited which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
In 2011, she acquired German citizenship, which enabled her to "film in Europe without a problem".
The film premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, and was released in the United States on December 21, 2012.
She was in a relationship with her On the Road co-star Garrett Hedlund from 2012 to 2016; they were briefly engaged before eventually breaking up.
Finally in 2014, Dunst voiced a character in the eighth episode of A Spacetime Odyssey, and made a guest appearance in an episode of Portlandia.
In 2015, she played Peggy Blumquist in the second season of the FX series Fargo, which earned Dunst a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Miniseries.
Throughout 2015, Dunst focused solely on television work.
She was cast as hairdresser Peggy Blumquist in the second season of the critically acclaimed FX crime comedy-drama Fargo, which earned her a nomination for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. In 2016, Dunst co-starred in Jeff Nichols' science fiction drama Midnight Special with Michael Shannon and Joel Edgerton.
In addition to acting, Dunst served as a member of the main competition jury of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
She was in a relationship with her On the Road co-star Garrett Hedlund from 2012 to 2016; they were briefly engaged before eventually breaking up.
She began a relationship with her Fargo co-star Jesse Plemons in 2016 and they became engaged in 2017.
In that year, Dunst planned to direct an adaptation of Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar, starring Dakota Fanning, but stepped down from the project before production. ===2017–present=== Dunst had two film releases in 2017.
She began a relationship with her Fargo co-star Jesse Plemons in 2016 and they became engaged in 2017.
Dunst owned a Lower Manhattan apartment which she listed for sale in 2017. In early 2008, Dunst was treated for depression at the Cirque Lodge treatment center in Utah.
Their son, Ennis Howard Plemons, was born on May 3, 2018.
Variety's Guy Lodge shared a similar opinion with the character, writing "Dunst has form in playing irretrievably inverted depression to riveting effect, but the Mulleavys’ script hardly gives her as complex an emotional or intellectual palette to work with". In 2019, Dunst starred in the Showtime dark comedy television series On Becoming a God in Central Florida, which premiered in August that year.
In a March 2021 cover shoot for W magazine directed by long-time collaborator Sofia Coppola, she announced that she is pregnant with her second child, another boy. In 2001, Dunst purchased a house in Toluca Lake, California but eventually sold it in September 2019 for $4.5 million.
She endorsed Bernie Sanders in the 2020 presidential election.
In a March 2021 cover shoot for W magazine directed by long-time collaborator Sofia Coppola, she announced that she is pregnant with her second child, another boy. In 2001, Dunst purchased a house in Toluca Lake, California but eventually sold it in September 2019 for $4.5 million.
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