The Dunst siblings turned heads at Gucci’s Milan Fashion Week show: Kirsten brought along her younger brother and left husband Jesse Plemons to stay ‘home with the kids’ Kirsten Dunst was just spotted enjoying a rare public outing with her little brother, Christian Dunst. On September 20, the siblings turned heads when they appeared together at the Gucci women’s spring/summer 2025 fashion show during Milan Fashion Week. As seen in photos, the Spider-Man star, 42, looked stylish in a floral, floor-length strapless gown, while her 37-year-old brother posed in a simple white tee with black trousers.
Both family members opted for black sunglasses and black footwear. Advertisement The actress talked about why she had decided to bring her little brother rather than her husband, Jesse Plemons, to the event this time. “We both needed a brother-sister getaway,” she told W Magazine.
“Jesse stayed home with the kids. Someone had to.” As a child star, Kirsten Dunst has been in the limelight for years; her brother, on the other hand, has somehow managed to shield himself from the public eye.
Here’s what we know about him: What is Christian Dunst’s background? {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Christian Dunst and Kirsten Dunst attend the Gucci women’s spring/summer 2025 fashion show in Milan on September 20. Photo: Getty Images","url":"https://img.
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Photo: Getty Images Christian was born to Inez Rupprecht and Klaus Dunst in 1987 and Kirsten is his only sister. According to The Guardian, Christian and Kirsten’s mother Inez Rupprecht is Swedish and used to work as a flight attendant for Lufthansa, while their German father Klaus was a medical services executive. Per the same outlet, the family lived in New Jersey until Klaus and Inez split up, with Inez and Kirsten moving to Los Angeles.
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jpg"} Actress Kirsten Dunst and her low key brother Christian Dunst often attend events together. Photo: Getty Images for The Weinstein Company/Netflix When you do a Google search of “Christian Dunst”, pretty much all the results point to his famous sibling Kirsten, whose name is very similar. “It’s so embarrassing,” Kirsten told W Magazine when asked about the closeness between their names.
“Especially when we do interviews and I have to be like, ‘Hi, I’m Kirsten. This is Christian.’ It’s the same name.
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