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Name: Kirsten Dunst

Birth Name: Kirsten Caroline Dunst

Height: 5' 7"

Sex: F

Nationality: American

Birth Date: April 30, 1982

Birth Place: Point Pleasant, New Jersey, USA

Profession: actress

Education: Notre Dame High School, a private Catholic high school, in Los Angeles (graduated in May 2000)

Relationship: Jake Gyllenhaal (actor; born December 19, 1980; dated from 2002- 2004), Ben Foster (actor; born October 29, 1980; dated from August 2000-March 2001), Jake Hoffman (actor; born March 20, 1981; son of actor Dustin Hoffman; dating as of 1998; broke up)

Father: Klaus Dunst (medical-services exec; separated)

Mother: Inez Dunst (former art-gallery owner)

Brother: Christian Dunst (born in 1987)

Claim to fame: as Claudia in Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)

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A SEASONED ARTIST

Nineteen-year-old Kirsten Dunst was destined for screen stardom from birth. The blonde, blue-eyed beauty has already been in some 30-odd movies, as well as more than 100 television commercials.

She got her first entry into the glamorous world of showbusiness at the age of three when she signed up with New York's prestigious Ford Modelling Agency - and she's never looked back.

"When I was born it was like 'this is what I gotta do'," laughs Dunst, who unlike many former child stars appears to have revelled in the experience of growing up on-screen.

She made her screen debut at seven in New York Stories but her big Hollywood breakthrough came in 1994 when she starred alongside Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt as an angelic vampire in Neil Jordan's Interview With The Vampire.

"I know kids are supposed to go through these awkward stages but I just never even thought about that. I was too busy worrying about getting my education while I was working."

Dunst's career progression has undoubtedly been helped by the fact her transformation from child star to adult performer has not proved too problematic.

When, at 16, she made Drop Dead Gorgeous opposite Denise Richards she stole the show proving that she had blossomed from a cutsie-pie child to all-American screen babe.

Her latest role as Kelly, a teenage heart-breaker in the Tommy O'Haver teen flick Get Over It, once again sees Dunst playing an high school sweetheart. Yet accusations that she is becoming typecast as a dizzy blonde appears not to phase her.

"I've always wanted to do this, so I don't mind. Lisa Kudrow, is like an inspiration to me," she says, referring to Kudrow's ditzy Friends' character."

However there is evidence the actress is eager to establish herself in more serious roles following her critically-acclaimed performance in last year's The Virgin Suicides, directed by Sofia Coppola. An forthcoming role in Peter Bogdanovich's thriller The Cat's Meow is expected to enhance her reputation further.

The actress admits she enjoyed filming The Virgin Suicides and says it's a film she's still proud of.

"Sofia's a good friend of mine and I loved working with her. I think the way it was shot and put together, the images are almost poetic."

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SECOND PART

Despite being a product of Hollywood's teen star system, Dunst is remarkably unpretentious. She still lives at home with her mother Inez, who is divorced from Dunst's father, and younger brother Christian in the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles. It keeps her grounded, she says.

"The truth is I'm such a kid, I'm still innocent in a lot of ways," she explains. "I'm probably one of the only young people left in Hollywood who still lives with her mom.

"But I've been lucky. I had a mom who knew this is what I wanted to do. She has devoted most of her life to getting me where I am."

And she insists her mother has never tried to pressurise her into staying in the industry. "My mother never stopped telling me I could stop whenever I liked, but I always loved it."

Her solid home life does seem to be keeping Dunst out of trouble. There's certainly no stories about any Hollywood brat pack excess. Forget drugs and nightclubs, you're more likely to find Dunst at Disneyland.

"I love going there with all my friends, we act like such kids. In summer I love hanging out on the beach all day. At night my girlfriends and I maybe go bowling at Hollywood Star Lanes," she says.

Although Dunst remains tight-lipped when the subject of boyfriends surfaces, she does volunteer that her workload doesn't leave much time for other things. And it's hard to contradict her - after all she's had five film roles in the past year alone.

"It's a punishing schedule," she admits. "I've never really wanted to be on the social pages, it all seems so phoney. I really don't feel like I'm missing out on anything."

She cites her role model as Jodie Foster who made the transition from baby poster kid to teen star and then adult player seemingly effortlessly.

"I love what I do and I don't want to stop," she says. "This is all I've ever wanted."

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lit of all kirten movies

2007 Spider-Man 3: The IMAX Experience

2007 Spider-Man 3

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2006 Marie Antoinette (2006)

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2005 Elizabethtown

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2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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2004 Spider-Man 2

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2004 Wimbledon

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2003 Levity

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2003 Mona Lisa Smile

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2003 Kaena: The Prophecy

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2002 Spider-Man

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2001 The Cat's Meow

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2001 crazy/beautiful

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2001 Get Over It

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2001 Luckytown

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2000 Bring It On

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2000 Deeply

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2000 The Crow: Salvation

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1999 The Virgin Suicides

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1999 Drop Dead Gorgeous

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1999 Dick

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1999 Stories From My Childhood Vol. 1

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1999 The Devil's Arithmetic

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1999 Lover's Prayer

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1998 All I Wanna Do

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1998

1998 Small Soldiers

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1998 Fifteen and Pregnant

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1998 The Animated Adventures of Tom Sawyer

1997 Anastasia

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1997 Wag The Dog

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1997 Tower of Terror

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1997 True Heart

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1996 Mother Night

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1996 The Siege at Ruby Ridge

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1995 Jumanji

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1994 Little Women

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1994 Interview With The Vampire.

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1994 Greedy

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1994 High Strung

1993 Darkness Before Dawn

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1990 The Bonfire of the Vanities

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1989 New York Stories.

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1989 Kiki's Delivery Service

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Kirsten Dunst Identifies With Marie Antoinette

Kirsten Dunst related to her royal character in new movie Marie Antoinette because she too had to deal with the pressures of fame at a young age. Child actor Dunst, who started modeling at age three and whose breakthrough came aged 11 in the 1993 film Interview With The Vampire, plays the 18th century French monarch in director Sofia Coppola's biopic.

The real-life Marie Antoinette became Queen of France in her teens when she married Louis XVI, and Dunst understands what it's like to be recognized wherever she goes.

She says, "Obviously, I'm not comparing myself to Marie Antoinette, but I think any young person put in that position feels that way. I can understand that feeling of isolation and the difficulties of trying to find your identity with all those different pressures on you. Like when you go somewhere and people know who you are immediately, so they treat you differently. That can mess with your head.

"That said, I can't imagine being put in the position Marie Antoinette was in. I agree there may be some similarities, but we're dealing with a much higher position. I'm an actress and not a queen. And it's not like I'm greeted with people in my bedroom every morning."

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