Kirsten Caroline Dunst (/ˈkɪərstən/; born April 30, 1982) is an American actress. She has
received various accolades, including a Cannes Film
Festival Award for Best Actress, in addition to nominations for
an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and
four Golden Globe Awards. She
made her acting debut in the short Oedipus Wrecks directed
by Woody Allen in the anthology film New York Stories (1989). She then gained recognition
for her role as child vampiress 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 the fantasy films Jumanji (1995) and Small Soldiers (1998). In the late 1990s, Dunst
transitioned to leading roles in a number of teen films, including the political satire Dick (1999) and the Sofia Coppola-directed drama The Virgin Suicides (1999).
In 2000, she starred in the lead role in the cheerleading film Bring It On, which has
become a cult classic. She gained further wide
attention for her role as Mary Jane Watson in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man (2002),
and its sequels Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Spider-Man 3 (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 science fiction 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, which earned Dunst a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
She then had a supporting role in the film Hidden Figures (2016), and leading roles in The Beguiled (2017)
and the black comedy series On Becoming a
God in Central Florida (2019), for which she received a
third Golden Globe nomination. She earned nominations for her fourth Golden
Globe and first Academy Award nomination
for her performance in the psychological drama The Power of the Dog (2021).
Olivia Haigh Williams (born 26 July 1968)
is a British actress who has appeared in British and American films and
television. After studying drama at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School for
two years followed by three years at the Royal Shakespeare Company,
her first significant screen role was as Jane Fairfax in the British television
film Emma (1996),
based on Jane Austen's novel. She made her film
debut in 1997's The Postman, followed
by Rushmore (1998)
and The Sixth Sense (1999).
Williams then appeared in several British films, including Lucky Break (2001), The Heart of Me (2002) and An Education (2009). In 2010, she won acclaim for her
performance as Ruth Lang in Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer. From
2017 to 2019, she played Emily Silk on the science fiction Williams was born
in North London. Both her parents are barristers. Williams was educated at South Hampstead High School,
an independent school for
girls in Hampstead in north London, followed
by Newnham College, Cambridge,
from which she graduated with a degree in English literature. She then
studied drama at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School for
two years and spent three years at the Royal Shakespeare Company.