Kirsten Dunst
Dunst in 2011, Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Kirsten Caroline Dunst
Place of Birth: Point Pleasant, New Jersey, U.S.
Date of Birth: April 30, 1982
Ethnicity: German, with one quarter Swedish, distant Polish
Kirsten Dunst is an American actress, director, model, and singer. She is known for her roles in the films New York Stories, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, Little Women (1994), Jumanji, Small Soldiers, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Dick (1999), The Virgin Suicides, Bring It On, Spider-Man, and its sequels; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Elizabethtown, Marie Antoinette (2006), Melancholia, Hidden Figures, The Beguiled (2017), and The Power of the Dog, and television’s Fargo and On Becoming a God in Central Florida.
Kirsten is the daughter of Inez (Rupprecht), who worked for Lufthansa as a flight attendant, and was an artist and gallery owner; and Klaus Dunst, who worked for Siemens as a medical services executive. Her father is German, from Bad Schwartau, and also has distant Polish ancestry. Her mother is American-born, from New Jersey. Kirsten’s maternal grandfather was of German descent, while Kirsten’s maternal grandmother was of Swedish ancestry. Kirsten also has German citizenship. Kirsten was raised in Brick Township, New Jersey, and later in Los Angeles, California, for her acting career.
Kirsten is married to actor Jesse Plemons, with whom she has two children.
Kirsten’s paternal grandfather was named Hermann Gustav Dunst. Hermann was German.
Kirsten’s paternal grandmother was Ingeborg Alice Maahs/Maass (the daughter of Fritz Maahs and Lilli Wehle). Ingeborg was German. Fritz was born in Landsberg, Germany. Lilli was born in Bługowo, Poland, the daughter of Hans Wehle and Alice Gregor, and had both German and Polish ancestry.
Kirsten’s maternal grandfather was Howard R. Rupprecht (the son of Edward B. Rupprecht and Susana/Susan Herold). Howard was born in New Jersey. Edward was born in New Jersey, to parents of German descent. Susana was born in New Jersey, to German parents, August Herold and Susana/Susan Kronung.
Kirsten’s maternal grandmother was Melba Carol Wing (the daughter of Albert Nathaniel Wing and Emma Karolina/Carolina Forslund). Melba was born in Minnesota. Albert was born in Minnesota, the son of Swedish parents, Carl Fritz/Fins-Carl Larson/Larsson Wing and Karin/Sol-Karin Nelsdotter/Nilsdotter Solberg. Emma was also born in Minnesota, also to Swedish parents, Olof/Ole Olsson Forslund and Brita Danielson/Danielsdotter.
Sources: Genealogy of Kirsten Dunst – http://www.geni.com
Kirsten’s maternal grandfather, Howard R. Rupprecht, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Kirsten’s maternal great-grandmother, Susana/Susan Herold, on the 1900 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Kirsten’s maternal grandmother, Melba Carol Wing, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Hey, just to clarify something here :
Lilli Wehle was ethnically German, not Polish. She was born in Bługowo, which is in Poland today, but at the time it was part of West Prussia (Germany). Her name “Wehle” is also German, as was her family. So calling this “distant Polish” is misleading it’s a historical geography mix-up, not an actual Polish ancestry loll
Dunst is actually an English surname https://www.houseofnames.com/amp/dunst-family-crest
Nope, it’s a German surname, also common in Austria.
Her face looks finnish. Not because of her dyed hair.
She’s not Finnish though so she doesn’t have a Finnish face and she was born a blonde so technically she’s not a fraud lol
Its funny that you say that because I know a woman who looks exactly like Kirsten Dunst but with dirty blonde hair. She is half German and half Finnish but she gets her looks from her German mother. Kirsten looks like what she is.
Wow that is a white woman, imagine her kids with Paul Bettany lol they would be the whitest kids ever.
This shows your massive inferiority complex. No European person would have never figured such concept.
What? Hahahhah…dude that was just a funny thought, chill out mr.-all-my-life-is-this-site
I never realised Kirsten Dust was white until I read your comment, you’re truly prodigious
Thanks, and maybe someday you can step outside and try to be happy.
I mean no ofense, but i just think you guy just take a celeb trivia site waaaaay too seriusly, as well as yourselves…
*guys
You’re literally fantasising about celebrities who are by no means in a relationship, mating and having “the whitest kids ever” and you have the audacity to tell anyone to go outside and call someone “mr.-all-my-life-is-this-site” while you spend your entire days here posting your new world insecurities, constantly ranking whites on a scale of “whiteness” lmao
Do everyone a favour and take your meds, that way you won’t have to post extra comments to fix your typos
Whiteness according to him a levantine means arab a non white hahaha who doesn’t know a crap of real white means Europeans.
Dude why do you comment on literally EVERYTHING on this site? Do you understand how ignorant your statement is? Do you know anything about the German ethnicity and their makeup?? Apparently not. It’s extremely complex and a mix of many ethnicities put together. It depends on the region, but Germans from southern Germany for example, are a mix of Germanic tribes, Romans, Slavs and MORE. This is a fact and is recorded in DNA tests. All of Germany is a huge mix. Please stop generalizing. No your comment wasn’t funny. No one here thinks you are funny.
Welcome to my fanclub, my fan base grows everyday, thanks for the love
Most Germans I know and in my family do not look like this. She looks more Swedish to me.