By Linda Loons
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Kirsten Caroline Dunst (/ˈkɪərstən/; born April 30, 1982) is an American actress. She made her acting debut in the anthology film New York Stories (1989). Dunst gained recognition for her role as child vampire Claudia in the horror film Interview with the Vampire (1994), which earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She also had roles in her youth in Little Women (1994) and Jumanji (1995).
Dunst transitioned to leading roles in teen films of 1999, the satires Dick and Drop Dead Gorgeous and the Sofia Coppola-directed drama The Virgin Suicides. After leading the cheerleading film Bring It On (2000), she gained wider attention for her role as Mary Jane Watson in Sam Raimi‘s Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007). Her career progressed with a supporting role in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), followed by a lead role in Cameron Crowe‘s tragicomedy Elizabethtown (2005), and as the title character in Coppola’s Marie Antoinette (2006).
In 2011, Dunst starred as a depressed newlywed in Lars von Trier‘s drama Melancholia, which earned her the Cannes Film Festival Award For Best Actress. In 2015, she played Peggy Blumquist in the second season of the FX series Fargo, earning a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for the role. Dunst had a supporting role in the film Hidden Figures (2016), and leading roles in Coppola’s The Beguiled (2017) and in the dark comedy series On Becoming a God in Central Florida (2019), for which she received a third Golden Globe nomination. Dunst earned her fourth nomination for a Golden Globe and first nomination for an Academy Award for her performance in the psychological drama The Power of the Dog (2021). In 2024, she led the war film Civil War.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
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Puzzle of the Day
Born
- David Thompson (explorer) –
- John Crowe Ransom (poet) –
- Simon Kuznets (economist) –
- Edith Margaret Fowke (folklorist) –
- Cloris Leachman (actress) –
- Jill Clayburgh (actress) –
- Annie Dillard (author) –
- Perry King (actor) –
- Isiah Thomas (basketball player) –
- Kirsten Dunst (actress) –
Died
- Sarah Josepha Hale (first woman magazine editor in the United States, poet) –
- Casey Jones (railroad engineer, died at the throttle, slowing down his crashing Cannonball trying to save passengers’ lives) –
- Adolf Hitler (committed suicide) –
- Agnes Moorehead (actress) –
- Muddy Waters (musician) –
- Tom Poston (actor) –
- Ling Ling (Japan’s oldest giant panda) –
Events
- Marguerite Bourgeoys opened the first school in Montreal, Quebec–
- George Washington was inaugurated as the first U.S. president–
- The United States Department of the Navy was established–
- The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the country–
- Louisiana was admitted to the Union as the 18th state–
- U.S. patent #2,000,000 issued–
- Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first president to appear on television–
- USS Peto first sub to be launched sideways, Manitowoc, Wisconsin–
- Law passed to have name of Boulder Dam restored to Hoover Dam–
- Monica Seles was stabbed by a deranged fan of Steffi Graf–
- Jeff Feagles of the New York Giants announced his retirement. He played a league record of 352 consecutive games.–
Weather
- A tornado in Minnesota killed 16 and injured 100–
- For the first time in its record-keeping history, Oklahoma City passed the month of April without a single thunderstorm–
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