Kirsten Dunst

Kirsten Caroline Dunst born April 30 1982 is an American actress She has received various accolades including a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress in addition to nominations for an Academy Award a Primetime Emmy Award and four Golden Globe Awards She made her acting debut in the short Oedipus Wrecks directed by Woody Allen in the anthology film New York Stories 1989 She then gained recognition for her role as child vampiress Claudia in the horror film Interview with the Vampire 1994 which earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress 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 1999 and the Sofia Coppoladirected drama The Virgin Suicides 1999 In 2000 she starred in the lead role in the cheerleading film Bring It On which has become a cult classic She gained further wide attention for her role as Mary Jane Watson in Sam Raimis SpiderMan 2002 and its sequels SpiderMan 2 2004 and SpiderMan 3 2007 Her career progressed with a supporting role in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 followed by a lead role in Cameron Crowes tragicomedy Elizabethtown 2005 and as the title character in Coppolas Marie Antoinette 2006 In 2011 Dunst starred as a depressed newlywed in Lars von Triers science fiction drama Melancholia which earned her the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress In 2015 she played Peggy Blumquist in the second season of the FX series Fargo which earned Dunst a Primetime Emmy Award nomination She then had a supporting role in the film Hidden Figures 2016 and leading roles 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 She earned nominations for her fourth Golden Globe and first Academy Award nomination for her performance in the psychological drama The Power of the Dog 2021