Kirsten Dunst Net Worth

Kirsten Dunst's Quotes

• I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt.
• Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you.
• Why would I cry over a boy? I would never waste my tears on a boy. Why waste your tears on someone who makes you cry?
• [on turning down the role of Angela in American Beauty (1999)] 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?
• [on what her luxury item would be on survivor] My cat, because he's fun to play with, he'd entertain me, and I could eat him if I was really hungry.

Interesting Facts about Kirsten Dunst

1. Was a Ford model as a child.
2. Beat out Christina Ricci for roles in Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) and Little Women (1994). She also beat out Scarlett Johansson for roles in Jumanji (1995) and Elizabethtown (2005).
3. Attended the Anne Rice's Memnoch Ball in New Orleans, Louisiana (1995).
4. Named one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (1995).
5. The only daughter of Klaus Hermann Dunst (b. West Germany), medical services executive for Siemens, and wife Inez Rupprecht, flight attendant for Lufthansa, artist and once owner of an art gallery. Her parents separated in 1993. Following this, she lived with her mother and younger brother, Christian Dunst, in Southern California.
6. She is working on her own production company with her mother called "Wooden Spoon Productions". The name symbolizes women and creativity. It was inspired by her grandmother, who used wooden spoons to keep her in line when she was a girl.
7. Attended and graduated from Notre Dame High School, a private Catholic high school in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California (June 2000). Rachel Bilson graduated a year earlier. Another former student was Katharine McPhee.
8. Turned down the role of Angela Hayes in American Beauty (1999), which went to Mena Suvari.
9. Attended the Ranney School in Tinton Falls, New Jersey up until the fifth grade, when she left after her parents separated in 1993.
10. Made her singing debut performing the song "Dream of Me" from Get Over It (2001).
11. Nabbed the lead role of Peter Parker's girlfriend, Mary Jane Watson, in Spider-Man (2002) after Kate Hudson and Alicia Witt turned down.
12. She performed her first screen kiss, at the tender age of 11, with Brad Pitt in Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994).
13. Name is pronounced "Keer-sten" (not "Kur-sten").
14. Named one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (2002).
15. Named one of Teen People magazine's "25 Hottest Stars Under 25" (2002).
16. Kirsten's father is German. Kirsten's mother, who is American-born, is of half German and half Swedish ancestry. Kirsten can speak German fluently.
17. Furthered her singing career with a song that appears during the ending credits to The Cat's Meow (2001).
18. Voted the second Sexiest Female Movie Star in the Australian Empire magazine. [September 2002]
19. Auditioned along with Kate Hudson to replace Sarah Polley for the role of Penny Lane in Almost Famous (2000), she did not get the role but Cameron Crowe later said this was "very, very close".
20. Was in a relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal (December 2002-June 2004).