Kirsten Dunst

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Exploring work behind the camera, as well, Kirsten Dunst made her directorial debut with the short film Welcome, starring Winona Ryder, which screened at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival

Kirsten Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982) is an American actress, singer and model. Kirsten Dunst got her showbiz start at the age of three, when she began filming television commercials. With more than 50 commercials under her belt, she made the jump to the big screen in 1989 in Woody Allen's New York Stories.

Kirsten Dunst was born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey. Her father worked as a medical services executive, and her mother was an artist and one-time gallery owner.Dunst's father is German, originally from Hamburg, and Dunst's mother, who was born in New Jersey, is of German and Swedish descent (Dunst affirmed her German citizenship in 2011 and now holds passports as a dual citizen of the United States and Germany).

Until the age of eight, Dunst lived in Brick Township, New Jersey, where she attended Ranney School. In 1991, her parents separated, and she subsequently moved with her mother and younger brother to Los Angeles, California, where she attended Laurel Hall School in North Hollywood.

Dunst was treated for depression in early 2008 at the Cirque Lodge treatment center in Utah. She has also gone public detailing her “sedate lifestyle” and the fact that she has a single apartment in New York with one bedroom.

Kirsten Dunst Filmography

2014 Cities
2013 The Two Faces of January
2012 Upside Down
2012 On the Road
2012 Bachelorette
2012 Charm
2011 Melancholia
2011 Fight for Your Right Revisited (short)
2010 All Good Things
2010 The Second Bakery Attack (short)
2008 How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2007 Spider-Man 3
2006 Marie Antoinette
2005 Elizabethtown
2004 Wimbledon
2004 Spider-Man 2
2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2003 Mona Lisa Smile
2003 Kaena: La prophétie (voice: English version)
2003 Levity
2003 The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton
2002 Spider-Man
2001 All Forgotten
2001 The Cat's Meow
2001 Crazy/Beautiful
2001 Get Over It
2000 Deeply
2000 Bring It On
2000 Luckytown
2000 The Crow: Salvation
1999 Dick
1999 Drop Dead Gorgeous
1999 The Virgin Suicides
1999 The Devil's Arithmetic
1998 Strike!
1998 Small Soldiers
1998 Fifteen and Pregnant
1997 Wag the Dog
1997 Anastasia (voice)
1997 Tower of Terror
1997 True Heart
1996 Mother Night
1996 The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1995 Jumanji
1994 Little Women
1994 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
1994 Greedy
1993 Darkness Before Dawn
1991 High Strung
1990 The Bonfire of the Vanities
1989 Kiki's Delivery Service (voice: English version)
1989 New York Stories (uncredited)

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