Kirsten Caroline Dunst is an American actress who started out as a child artist at the age of six before emerging as one of the leading ladies of Hollywood. In a career spanning close to three decades, Dunst has appeared in over 70 movies, the most notable among which are Interview with the Vampire (1994), Jumanji (1995), Wag the Dog (1997), The Virgin Suicides (1999), Elizabethtown (2005), Mary Antoinette (2006), the Spiderman trilogy (2002-07) directed by Sam Raimi and Melancholia (2011). For her performance in Melancholia, she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival that year.
Besides guest-starring in TV shows like ER, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Portlandia, Dunst has also appeared in main roles in The Devils Arithmetic and Fargo, the latter of which won her a Critics Choice Television Award for Best Actress in 2015. Known for her political activism and charity ventures, the actress was in the news in 2008 when she revealed her prolonged battle with depression in her mid twenties.