Kirsten Dunst

It is not very normal for a 22-year-old to have more than forty films to her credit. That is why the career of Kirsten Dunst, an actress with the face and physique to reach stardom with just a handful of films, is shocking. In addition, if one investigates her filmography, one realizes that many of these works have been sweaty but well. She was chosen to participate in Interview with the Vampire after a casting with about five thousand candidates and finally snatched the role from Christina Ricci . But her real opponents have been two other blonde actresses: Kate Hudson and Mena Suvari . The first stole the role of Penny Lane in Almost Famous (according to Cameron Crowe, by very little) and the second took Angela’s in American Beauty . However, they both lost out to Dunst for the chance to play Mary Jane in Spider-Man , and it’s been her role that she’s really made her famous.

It can almost be said that Kirsten Caroline Dunst learned to walk and act at the same time. Born in Point Pleasant (New Jersey) on April 30, 1982, to a German father and an American mother, Kirsten first appeared in a commercial when she was 3 years old. She was a blonde, chubby girl with an angelic smile, and it seems that she did not do badly, since in total she shot about seventy commercials for television. That precocity to be in front of the camera culminated in 1989 when Woody Allen used it to participate in New York Stories . Her name did not appear in the credits, but her mother already had in mind what her little offspring was going to do. After separating from her husband, her mother and daughter went to Los Angeles to facilitate Kirsten’s career.

Things started well, because he made his debut the following year in The Bonfire of the Vanities , by Brian De Palma . At the age of 12, after getting a small role in The Greedy (1994), she played little Claudia in Interview with the Vampire . The girl powerfully attracted attention and she was nominated for a Golden Globe. She did not win it, but her career began to go from strength to strength. During the rest of the decade we saw her in numerous roles, most of them small: Little Women (1994), Jumanji (1995) and The Smokescreen (1997) are her most significant. And at the age of 17 the definitive boost to her career came from the hand of the then first-timeSofia Coppola . In The Virgin Suicides (1999), Kirsten Dunst showed that her acting adolescence was behind her. She was no longer the little girl who shot commercials, but a serious promise to a great actress. The film received much praise and Kirsten’s elven visage became the film’s eye catcher. But, far from resting on her laurels, the girl continued to work hard, making several films in a very short space of time: Die Pretty (1999), Adventures in the White House (1999), The Raven: Salvation (2000). Her name filled the covers again thanks to the comedy A for all(2000), where she wore palms as a high school cheerleader. And despite her continuous work commitments, in June of that year she managed to graduate from the Notre Dame Institute in Los Angeles. Then the best gift from her for her 20th birthday was the role of Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man . She was perfect, and the success of the film gave her the opportunity to make the sequel two years later, as well as a third installment scheduled for 2007. In 2003, she was with Billy Bob Thornton in the dramatic Levity , and was the valedictorian Julia Roberts in Mona Lisa Smile . And the last we’ve seen of her was the remarkable and weird Forget About Me.(2004), by Charlie Kaufman . Currently, Kirsten works with her mother in their own production company called Wooden Spoon Productions, while she premieres the sports comedy Wimbledon on our screens . Next year we will see the work of her starring as her in Elizabethtown , a dramatic comedy directed by Cameron Crowe.