Kirsten Dunst

Acting

Born 1982-04-30 Point Pleasant, New Jersey, USA 126 credits Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 Robert Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role 2 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion Picture 1 Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama 1

Awards

Nominated for 1 Academy Award

Academy Awards 1 nominated

2022 Best Supporting Actress Nominated The Power of the Dog

Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 won

2017 Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Won Hidden Figures

Robert Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role 2 won

2012 Best Actress in a Leading Role Won Melancholia
2011 Best Actress in a Leading Role Won Melancholia

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won

— star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won

Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion Picture 1 won

2017 Best Cast – Motion Picture Won Hidden Figures

Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama 1 won

2016 Best Actress – Television Series Drama Won Fargo

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Kirsten Caroline Dunst (/ˈkɪərstən/ KEER-stən; born April 30, 1982) is an American actress. She made her acting debut in the anthology film New York Stories (1989) and has since starred in several films and television productions. She has received several awards, including nominations for an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and four Golden Globe Awards. Dunst first gained recognition for her role as child vampire 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 Jumanji (1995). Dunst transitioned to leading roles in teen films of 1999, the satires Dick and Drop Dead Gorgeous and Sofia Coppola's drama The Virgin Suicides. After the leading role in the cheerleading film Bring It On (2000), she gained wider attention for her role as Mary Jane Watson in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007). 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 Marie Antoinette in Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006). In 2011, Dunst starred as a depressed newlywed in Lars von Trier's 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, earning a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for the role. Dunst had a supporting role in the film Hidden Figures (2016), and leading roles in Coppola's The Beguiled (2017) and in the dark comedy series On Becoming a God in Central Florida (2019), for which she received a third Golden Globe nomination. Dunst earned her fourth nomination for a Golden Globe and first nomination for an Academy Award for her performance in the psychological drama The Power of the Dog (2021). In 2024, she led the dystopian thriller film Civil War. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kirsten Dunst, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.