Yahoo!'s Web Celeb Kirsten Dunst July 1999
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In 1994 the entire world wanted to know about that little girl who was lucky enough to be cast alongside Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise, two of Hollwood’s sexiest leading men, in the hit movie Interview With The Vampire. This young lady is Kirsten Dunst, a successful actress who had already worked on over six films before the age of 12.
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Kirsten, who just turned 17, was born in Point Pleasant, NJ on April 30th, 1982, and now lives with her family and goes to school in California. Kirsten’s show business career started at the age of three with appearances in commercials, and she made her fortunate film debut only two years later, at the ripe age of five, in New York Stories. Kirsten Dunst’s film career has steadily blossomed since that role. In 1994, her performance as Claudia, a child transformed into a manipulative, blood-sucking vampire in the movie Interview With The Vampire, earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress and an MTV award for Best Breakthrough Artist. She was then cast as a character on the opposite end of the spectrum - the ten-year-old Amy March in Gillian Armstrong’s adaptation of Little Women. This role won Kirsten both the Chicago Critics Award and the Boston Film Society Award for Best Supporting Actress, and she got to work with great actors like Susan Sarandon, Winona Ryder and Gabriel Byrne. In 1995, Kirsten was cast in Jumanji, where she worked with Robin Williams and, two years later she co-starred opposite Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro in the political satire Wag the Dog. Kirsten has also had the opportunity to work with actors like Michael J. Fox, Kirk Douglas and Nick Nolte.
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Throughout her career, Kirsten has appeared in such televisions shows as "Saturday Night Live," "Star Trek: The Next Generation," and "Loving." In 1997, she was the voice of Young Anastasia and, in 1998, she starred in the movie Small Soldiers, where her co-stars were small action figures - not to mention Denis Leary, Frank Langella and the late, great Phil Hartman.
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This summer, Kirsten Dunst will be co-starring with Denise Richards, Kirstie Alley and Ellen Barkin in the New Line Cinema comedy Drop Dead Gorgeous. Here, Kirsten plays Amber Atkins - a trailer park beauty and part-time mortuary make-up artist in competition for the "Miss Teen Princess America Pageant." She'll also be starring with Michelle Williams in Dick, a comedy about two high school students who happen to meet Richard Nixon during a class field trip and end up becoming his official dog walkers and central figures in the Watergate scandal.
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Andrew Shue,
Calvert Deforest,
Yasmine Bleeth,
Howard Stern,
Pamela Lee Anderson,
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Will Smith,
Kate Mulgrew,
Jewel,
Chris Rock,
Rosie O'Donnell,
Pierce Brosnan,
Tracey Ullman,
Fiona Apple,
Gwyneth Paltrow,
Kate Winslet,
3rd Rock From The Sun,
Godzilla,
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