Kirsten Dunst as Claudia
Description:One of the most intriguing vampire movies ever made, based on the popular novel by Anne Rice, who wrote her own adaptation. Louis (Brad Pitt), a centuries old undead, recounts his story to a reporter telling how he was transformed in 18th century New Orleans by Lestat (Tom Cruise),and came to transform young Claudia (Kirsten Dunst). Interview improves in character quality and insight into a vampire's psyche with the sequences involving Paris' Theater of Vampires, where a coven of creatures stage, for the public, their lavish rites of sacrifice.
Biography for Kirsten Dunst
Birth name
Kirsten Caroline Dunst
Date of birth
30 April 1982
Point Pleasant, New Jersey, USA
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Kirsten Caroline Dunst was born on April 30, 1982 in Point Pleasant, NJ, USA to Klaus Dunst, a medical-services exec. who's now stationed in New Jersey while the rest of his family lives on the West Coast. Klaus separated from Kirsten's mother Inez Dunst, a former art-gallery owner. She also has a brother named Christian, who was born 1987. Kirsten started out in showbiz at the age of three, where she began filming television commercials (a grand total of more than 70). She made her feature film debut in a segment of Woody Allen's 1989 film New York Stories (1989). Shortly after in the same year her family moved to Los Angeles, where her film career took off. In 1994 she made her breakthrough performance in Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) alongside such stars as Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise. Her performance earned her a Golden Globe nomination, the MTV Award for Best Breakthrough Performance and the Saturn award for Best Young Actress. In 1995, she was named one of People Magazine's 50 MMost Beautiful People. Over the next few years she made a string of hit movies including Little Women (1994), Jumanji (1995) and Small Soldiers (1998). 2000 was Kirsten's biggest year yet -- she received rave reviews for her role as Lux Lisbon in Sofia Coppola's Independent film Virgin Suicides, The (1999). She proved her status as a leading actress in the comedy hit Bring It On (2000), and she Graduated from Notre Dame High School in Los Angeles in June of that year. She is now working on her own production company with her mother called "Wooden Spoon Productions."
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Trivia
Was a Ford model as a child.
Her favorite movie is Schindler's List (1993).
Beat out Christina Ricci for roles in Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) and Little Women (1994).
Attended the Anne Rice's Memnoch Ball in New Orleans in 1995.
One of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People of 1995.
Parents are separated. She lives with her mother Inez, and brother Christian in Southern California.
She is working on her own production company with her mother called "Wooden Spoon Productions". The name symbolizes women and creativity, and was inspired by her grandmother.
Graduated from Notre Dame High School, a private Catholic high school in Los Angeles, in May/June 2000.
Turned down the role of Angela in American Beauty (1999).
Went to the Ranney School in Tinton Falls, NJ up until the sixth grade, when she left to pursue her career in California.
Made her singing debut performing the song "Dream Of Me" from Get Over It (2001).
Nabbed the lead role of Peter Parker's girlfriend, Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man (2002) after Kate Hudson and Alicia Witt turned it down.
She performed her first screen kiss, at the tender age of 11, with Brad Pitt in the movie Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994).
Name is pronounced "Keer-sten" (not "Kur-sten").
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Personal quotes
Tom Cruise on working with Kirsten: "We're all in awe of her maturity as an actress. There seems to be the experience of a 35-year-old actress in the body of this little girl."
On turning down the role of Angela in "American Beauty": "When I read it, I was 15 and I don't think I was mature enough to understand the script's material. I didn't want to be kissing Kevin Spacey. Come on! Lying there naked with rose petals?"
"My cat, because he's fun to play with, he'd entertain me, and I could eat him if I was really hungry." (on what her luxury item would be on survivor)
"I'm never going to say anything about who I'm dating unless I'm married or engaged." - 2002
"I run the treadmill whenever I can do it with weights." (when asked how she stays in shape) - 2002
"Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it."
"So many teen films are overproduced and people are going to burnout on the subject."
"I think vegetarians - for a lot of them - it's about a lack of commitment to life and relationships. There are some who just like the fact that they're controlling something in their life."
"And in the next film they've got to bring in another female character. Just give me the acting; she can do all the falling and fighting."
(on money) "I think one of my credit cards is corporate for my company, Wooden Spoons Productions. I don't know; my financial adviser does that. I don't handle that shit."
"I want to go on Crossing Over With John Edward. I'd like to be regressed to find out about my past lives."
(on Spider-Man)"I really wanted the role because I knew it would give my career a boost, especially in foreign markets where I don't feel I'm that well known."
"The Virgin Suicides showed I could nail a very difficult character, while Bring It On brought a great deal of joy to young girls. These are the beautiful rewards of being an actress."
"On every film I do, whenever there are other girls my age, I think it's definitely up to me to set the pace. That's because I've had a lot of experience and I think there's always a certain amount of professionalism that should be maintained."
(on Bring It On) "We're breaking boundaries. And we're not doing the same old little clich� of, "Oh, cheerleaders are dumb, so let's make fun of them."
"I have never done a drug in my life. I tried smoking once. Hated it. I don't want to infect myself with cancer."
"Whenever I have to smoke for a character, I make sure they're fake cigarettes. It's a terrible habit, and I can't believe kids still want to do it."
"What actor do you really take seriously who becomes a singer? It's kind of ridiculous. I can't think of anybody."
"It would actually be really interesting if Spider-Man died. Why doesn't the superhero ever die? I think if Mary Jane was alone, pregnant and he died, she could give birth to a spider baby and carry on the series with another young boy or something like that." - July 2004
Spider-Man 3 (2007) (pre-production) .... Mary Jane Watson
Marie-Antoinette (2006) (pre-production) .... Marie-Antoinette
Elizabethtown (2005) (post-production) .... Claire Colburn
Wimbledon (2004) .... Lizzie Bradbury
... aka Plus belle victoire, La (France)
Spider-Man 2 (2004) .... Mary Jane Watson
... aka Spider-Man 2: The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version)
Spider-Man 2 (2004/II) (VG) (voice) .... Mary Jane Watson
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) .... Mary
The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton (2003) (TV)
Mona Lisa Smile (2003) .... Betty Warren
Kaena: La proph�tie (2003) (voice) .... Kaena
... aka Kaena: The Prophecy (USA)
Levity (2003)
Axis (2002) .... Saena
Spider-Man (2002) .... Mary Jane Watson
2001 MTV Movie Awards (2001) (TV) .... Host
Mummy Parody, The (2001) (TV) .... Herself
Cat's Meow, The (2001) .... Marion Davies
Crazy/Beautiful (2001) .... Nicole Oakley
Get Over It (2001) .... Kelly 'Kel' Woods/Helena
... aka Get Over It! (2001) (USA: promotional title)
All Forgotten (2000) .... Zinaida
... aka Lover's Prayer (2000) (USA)
Savage Garden: Superstars and Cannonballs: Live and on Tour in Australia (2000) (V) (uncredited) .... Girl on Subway (in 'I Knew I Loved You' video)
Deeply (2000) .... Silly
Bring It On (2000) .... Torrance 'Torr' Shipman
Luckytown Blues (2000) .... Lidda Doyles
... aka Lucky Town (2000) (USA)
... aka Luckytown (2000) (USA)
Crow: Salvation, The (2000) .... Erin Randall
Dick (1999) .... Betsy Jobs
... aka Dick, les coulisses de la pr�sidence (1999) (France)
Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) .... Amber Atkins
... aka Gnadenlos sch�n (1999) (Germany)
Virgin Suicides, The (1999) .... Lux Lisbon
Devil's Arithmetic, The (1999) (TV) .... Hannah Stern
"Stories from My Childhood" (1998) TV Series (voice) .... Alice/Gerda
... aka "Mikhail Baryshnikov's Stories from My Childhood" (1998) (USA: complete title)
Strike! (1998) .... Verena Von Stefan
... aka All I Wanna Do (2000) (USA: new title)
... aka College femminile (1998) (Italy)
... aka Filles font la loi, Les (1998) (Canada: French title)
Animated Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (1998) (V) (voice) .... Becky Thatcher
Small Soldiers (1998) .... Christy Fimple
Fifteen and Pregnant (1998) (TV) .... Tina Spangler
True Heart (1997) .... Bonnie
Wag the Dog (1997) .... Tracy Lime
Anastasia (1997) (voice) .... Young Anastasia
Tower of Terror (1997) (TV) .... Anna
Ruby Ridge: An American Tragedy (1996) (TV) .... Sara Weaver
... aka Siege at Ruby Ridge, The (1996) (TV) (USA)
Mother Night (1996) .... Young Resi Noth
Children Remember the Holocaust (1995) (TV) (voice)
... aka Nothing But Sun (1995) (TV)
Jumanji (1995) .... Judy Shepherd
Greedy (1994) .... Jolene
Little Women (1994) .... Younger Amy March
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) .... Claudia
... aka Interview with the Vampire (1994) (USA: short title)
Darkness Before Dawn (1993) (TV) .... Sandra Guard (age 8)
High Strung (1991) .... Young Girl
Bonfire of the Vanities, The (1990) .... Campbell McCoy
"Loving" (1983) TV Series (uncredited) .... Young Child (1990-1991)
Majo no takkyubin (1989) (voice) .... Kiki O'Connell
... aka Kiki's Delivery Service (1998) (USA)
New York Stories (1989) (uncredited) .... Lisa's Daughter
