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Birth of Kirsten Dunst

30 April 1982

Kirsten Dunst was born on 30 April 1982 in Point Pleasant. An American actress, Dunst began as a child model and made her screen debut in Interview with the Vampire, for which she received praise at age eleven. She then starred in Little Women, Jumanji and Bring It On, and achieved wide fame as Mary Jane Watson in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films. She also starred in The Virgin Suicides and Marie Antoinette for Sofia Coppola, in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and in Lars von Trier's Melancholia, which earned her the Best Actress award at Cannes. She received an Academy Award nomination for The Power of the Dog, and is married to the actor Jesse Plemons.

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