Kirsten Dunst

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Kirsten Dunst at the Cannes International Film Festival 2016

Kirsten Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982 in Point Pleasant , New Jersey ) is an American - German actress . She was best known at the age of twelve from the film Interview With a Vampire .

Early years

Kirsten Dunst was born in New Jersey in 1982. Her father Klaus Dunst is a German who has lived in the USA for decades. Her mother Inez Rupprecht is an American of Swedish- German origin. Your paternal grandfather lives as a widower in Hamburg . She grew up with a younger brother with her mother, who has since divorced her father, in Los Angeles , where she attended a Catholic school.

Career

Beginnings of the career

Dunst, who appeared in a commercial at the age of three , worked as a child model . In 1989 she played her first small role in Woody Allen's New York Stories . She then starred as Tom Hanks ' daughter in Purgatory of the Vanities (1990). In 1993 she had a guest role in the episode Place of Darkness in the seventh season of Starship Enterprise: The Next Century .

breakthrough

She had her breakthrough in 1994 as a child vampire Claudia in the Anne Rice bestselling film Interview with a Vampire at the side of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt . For the role, Dunst prevailed against 5,000 female competitors. She was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance and was awarded the prize for the best breakthrough performance at the MTV Movie Awards . Once again, she celebrated the criticism in the same year for the bestselling film Betty and Her Sisters , in which she starred alongside Winona Ryder and Claire Danes . The New York Times predicted a great career for her.

In 1995 she starred in the fantasy film Jumanji on the side of Robin Williams . In 1996, she took on a recurring role in the third season of the hospital series Emergency Room , in which she played a drug-addicted teenage prostitute in six episodes , whom the pediatrician played by George Clooney tries in vain to get off the street. In 1997 she played a supporting role in the political satire Wag the Dog with Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman . In 1999 she appeared in Sofia Coppola's drama The Virgin Suicides ; she received very positive reviews for her performance. A year later she starred in the comedy Girls United , which became a commercial hit.

International fame with Spider-Man

Kirsten Dunst (2006)

Dunst earned recognition in 2002 in the role of Mary Jane "MJ" Watson in Sam Raimi's comic book adaptation Spider-Man on the side of Tobey Maguire . In 2003 she starred alongside Julia Roberts and Julia Stiles in the tragic comedy Mona Lisa's smile . In 2004 she played the lead role alongside Paul Bettany in the sports drama Wimbledon - Game, Set and ... Love . She also had a role in the romantic drama Forget Me Not! with Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet . In the same year, she impersonated the role of Mary Jane again in Spider-Man 2 and she celebrated another great success with it.

In 2005 she played in Elizabethtown on the side of Orlando Bloom . In 2006 she played the French Queen Marie Antoinette in the film of the same name by Sophia Coppola. The second collaboration with the director after The Virgin Suicides was unsuccessful at the box office. In 2007 she starred in Spider-Man 3 , her most commercially successful film to date . After shooting the film New York for Beginners (2008), Dunst initially retired from the film business.

Comeback with Melancholia

In 2010, Dunst was the Majokko Princess in the music video Turning Japanese , which was filmed by Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami . In January 2010, it was announced that the Spider-Man series would continue without her, as well as Tobey Maguire and director Sam Raimi. In the same year she stood for the romantic drama All Beauty Must Die together with Ryan Gosling for the first time after her treatment for depression again in front of the film camera. She also shot the drama Melancholia in 2010, directed by Lars von Trier . For her performance in the role of a melancholic depressive bride they won the 2011 Best Actor Award of the 64th Film Festival of Cannes and was nominated for the European Film Awards .

In 2012 she played the role of Camille at the side of Sam Riley and Kristen Stewart in the novel On the Road . She also starred in Leslye Headland's comedy Our Biggest Friend's Wedding . In 2015 she took on a leading role in the second season of the television series Fargo . For her portrayal she was nominated for the Golden Globe in the category " Best Actress in a Mini-Series or TV Movie " and for the Emmy in the category "Best Lead Actress in a Mini-Series or a TV Movie". In 2016 she was appointed to the competition jury of the 69th Cannes International Film Festival . The German dubbing voice for Dunst comes from Marie Bierstedt and Natascha Geisler . At the end of August 2019, Dunst was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame . However, the honor was overshadowed by a shitstorm surrounding a related tweet by the Reuters news agency , which reduced Dunst to her role as "Spiderman's friend" in the film of the same name, whereupon the tweet was deleted.

Private life

Dunst was in a relationship with her fellow actor Jake Gyllenhaal from 2002 to 2004 , then dated Razorlight singer Johnny Borrell for seven months in 2007, and with Garrett Hedlund , her colleague from On the Road , from 2012 to 2016 . Since 2016 she has been in a relationship with actor Jesse Plemons , to whom she, as it became known in 2017, is now engaged to. In 2018 they became parents of a son.

Dunst received medical treatment for depression in the spring of 2008 and resumed her film career in 2010. Since September 2011, Dunst has both US citizenship and German citizenship .

In August 2014, nude photos of her appeared on the Internet, which an unknown person had apparently previously downloaded via a private account of a cloud service provider (see Hacker attack on private photos of celebrities in 2014 ). In September 2016, the perpetrator pleaded guilty and concluded a deal with the public prosecutor.

Filmography (selection)

As an actress

As a voice actress

Music videos

Awards

Boston Society of Film Critics

Saturn Award

  • 1995: Best newcomer
  • 2011: Best Actress , for Melancholia

YoungStar Awards

  • 1995: Best young actress in a supporting role , for Betty and her sisters
  • 1995: Best Newcomer , for Interview with a Vampire
  • 1998: Best Young Actress in a TV Movie for Too Young for a Baby

MTV Movie Award

  • 1995: Best Newcomer , for Interview with a Vampire
  • 2002: Best Actress , for Spider-Man
  • 2002: Best kiss , with Tobey Maguire

Empire Awards

  • 2002: Best Actress , for Spider-Man
  • 2004: Best Actress , for Spider-Man 2

Teen Choice Awards

  • 2002: Best kiss , with Tobey Maguire

Cannes International Film Festival

Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award

  • 2011: Best Actress , for Melancholia

National Society of Film Critics Award

  • 2011: Best Actress , for Melancholia

Robert

  • 2011: Best Actress , for Melancholia

Critics' Choice Television Award

Screen Actors Guild Award

literature

Web links

Commons : Kirsten Dunst  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Behrens: A woman from Hamburg is the grandmother of Hollywood star Kirsten Dunst. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . October 29, 2006, accessed October 3, 2012 .
  2. ^ Kirsten Dunst: German Citizen - International Lady. (No longer available online.) In: fem . October 21, 2011, archived from the original on June 9, 2013 ; Retrieved October 3, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fem.com
  3. ↑ Ursula Schmied: KIRSTEN DUNST: STAR ON THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME - Beat sexism with your own means. In: glamor. Condé Nast Germany GmbH, September 5, 2019, accessed on May 2, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Kirsten Dunst on Ex Jake Gyllenhaal: “We're Not Good Friends” . In: Us Weekly , November 18, 2009 (English)
  5. ↑ Kirsten Dunst and Garrett Hedlund have split up. In: Spiegel Online , September 19, 2016
  6. ↑ US actress Kirsten Dunst: It's time for a child. In: Spiegel Online. Retrieved June 1, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Stern.de of May 8, 2018
  8. ↑ Michael Y. Park: Kirsten Dunst Breaks Silence on Rehab . In: People , May 27, 2008
  9. ↑ Looking for a flat in Berlin: Dunst is now German . In: n-tv.de , September 30, 2011.
  10. ↑ Nude photos of Lawrence and Co .: Apple rejects complicity in hacker attack. In: Spiegel Online. September 3, 2014, accessed September 6, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Hacker pleads guilty after stealing celebrity nude photos. ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: donaukurier.de . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.donaukurier.de
  12. ↑ YouTube : Video , accessed on August 17, 2012
  13. ↑ Ulrik Beilke: Kirsten Dunst as Akihabara Majokko Princess . ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Affenheimtheater , February 20, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blog.affenheimtheater.de
  14. ↑ Akihabara Majokko Princess . In: YouTube , March 19, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Dunst, Kirsten
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dunst, Kirsten Caroline (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-German actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Point Pleasant , New Jersey , United States