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Every Kirsten Dunst Role, Ranked


Has any child star of the last 40 years fared better than her?

The movies that first won her acclaim ( Interview With the Vampire, Little Women) segued perfectly into the teen vehicles that made Dunst one of the most beloved celebrities of her generation ( The Virgin Suicides, Bring It On), which in turn provided a pathway to the varied modes she has embraced as an adult ( Melancholia, Bachelorette, Fargo). For the sake of brevity, we didn’t include TV movies ( Fifteen and Pregnant, The Devil’s Arithmetic), animation ( Anastasia), cameos and guest appearances ( ER, Anchorman 2), tiny supporting roles ( The Bonfire of the Vanities, Mother Night), or more obscure titles unavailable on VOD ( Luckytown, Levity). Two decades before Amanda Seyfried scored an Oscar nomination for playing Marion Davies in Mank, Dunst portrayed the Jazz Age actress in this Peter Bogdanovich romp about William Randolph Hearst’s infamous 1924 yacht party that resulted in the mysterious death of producer Thomas Ince.

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