Dakota Fanning
American actress who captivated audiences as a child star and has sustained a versatile, acclaimed career across decades of film and television.
Dakota Fanning - Personal Information
- Name: Dakota Fanning
- Date of Birth: February 23, 1994
- Place of Birth: Conyers, Georgia, USA
- Gender: Female
- Job Title: Actor
- Crew Jobs: Executive Producer, Producer, Director, Story, Thanks
Biography
Hannah Dakota Fanning (born February 23, 1994) is an American actress. She rose to prominence at the age of seven for her performance as Lucy Dawson in the drama film I Am Sam (2001), for which she received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination at the age of eight, making her the youngest nominee in SAG history. Fanning played major roles as a child actress in the films Uptown Girls (2003), The Cat in the Hat (2003), Man on Fire (2004), War of the Worlds (2005), Dreamer (2005), and Charlotte's Web (2006), and the eponymous character in Coraline (2009).
Fanning followed with more mature roles, playing Lewellen in Hounddog (2007), Lily in The Secret Life of Bees (2008), Cherie Currie in The Runaways (2010) and Jane in The Twilight Saga (2009–2012). Throughout the 2010s, she continued appearing in independent productions such as the dramas Now Is Good (2012) and Night Moves (2013), the comedy-drama Very Good Girls (2013), and the biographical film Effie Gray (2014). In 2018, she appeared in the heist comedy Ocean's 8 and had a starring role in the period drama series The Alienist. She has since portrayed Manson girl Squeaky Fromme in the Quentin Tarantino film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) and First Daughter Susan Ford in the Showtime biographical drama series The First Lady (2022).
Selected Filmography
A look at Dakota Fanning's most recent screen appearances across film and television.
- The Nightingale (2027) as Vianne
- Fru! 2 (2026) as Delf (voice)
- The Sun Never Sets (2026) as Wendy
- All Her Fault (TV - 2025) as Jenny Kaminski
- Vicious (2025) as Polly
- The Perfect Couple (TV - 2024) as Abby Winbury
- The Watchers (2024) as Mina / Lucy
- RIPLEY (TV - 2024) as Marge Sherwood
- The Equalizer 3 (2023) as Emma Collins
- The First Lady (TV - 2022) as Susan Elizabeth Ford
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