Kirsten Caroline Dunst is an American actress. She gained recognition for her performance as the child vampire Claudia in the horror film Interview with the Vampire. In 2011, Dunst starred as a depressed newlywed in Lars von Trier’s science-fiction drama Melancholia. 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.
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Kirsten Caroline Dunst is an American actress. She gained recognition for her performance as the child vampire Claudia in the horror film Interview with the Vampire. In 2011, Dunst starred as a depressed newlywed in Lars von Trier’s science-fiction drama Melancholia. 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. Dunst’s father is German, originally from Hamburg, and her American mother is of German and Swedish descent. Her mother filed for divorce in 1995, and Dunst 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. Her father worked for Siemens as a medical services executive and her mother worked for Lufthansa as a flight attendant. She was also an artist and one-time gallery owner. Her parents separated in 1993, and she subsequently moved to LA with her mom and brother. As a teenager, she found it difficult to deal with her rising fame, and for a period she blamed her mother for pushing her into acting as a child. She made her feature film debut with a minor role in Woody Allen’s short film Oedipus Wrecks; it was released as one-third of the anthology film New York Stories. She played the daughter of Tom Hanks’s character in the comedy-drama The Bonfire of the Vanities, based on Tom Wolfe’s novel of the same name.
In 1993, she made a guest appearance in an episode of the science fiction drama Star Trek: The Next Generation. Her breakthrough role came in 1994, in thehorror drama Interview With the Vampire opposite Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. Her career progressed with a supporting role in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, followed by a lead role in Cameron Crowe’s tragicomedy Elizabethtown, and as the title character in Coppola’s Marie Antoinette. She also had roles in her youth in Little Women and the fantasy films Jumanji and Small Soldiers. Her first on-screen kiss with Brad Pitt, who is almost two decades older than her, made her feel uncomfortable; she revealed to Interview magazine that she thought it was gross, that he had cooties. Her performance in The Breakthrough earned her the MTV Movie Award for Best Young Actress and the Best Saturn Award for her Young Actress performance for her role in The Beguiled. She has also appeared in the films Spider-Man 2 andSpider-Man 3, as Mary Jane Watson in the sequels to the first Spider- man. She is married to actor Peter Dinklage and has a son, Jack Danklage, with whom she has a daughter, Isabella, who was born in 2010. She appeared in a number of teen films, including the political satire Dick and the SofiaCoppola-directed drama The Virgin Suicides.
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