Dakota Fanning

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1994-02-23 (31 years old)

Place of Birth

Conyers, Georgia, USA

Dakota Fanning

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...

Acting

2005

War of the Worlds

as Rachel Ferrier

2003

The Cat in the Hat

as Sally Walden

2004

In the Realms of the Unreal

as Narrator/Vivian Girls (Voice)

2007

Cutlass

as Lacey

2001

I Am Sam

as Lucy Diamond Dawson

2005

Hide and Seek

as Emily Callaway

2005

2002

Trapped

as Abigail "Abby" Jennings

2004

Man on Fire

as Lupita Ramos

2008

2010

The Runaways

as Cherie Currie

2006

Charlotte's Web

as Fern Arable

2009

Push

as Cassie Holmes

2011

Rise

as Laurence Owen

2007

Hounddog

as Lewellen

2003

Uptown Girls

as Ray Schleine

2005

Nine Lives

as Maria

2009

Winged Creatures

as Anne Hagen

2024

The Watchers

as Mina / Lucy

2002

2013

The Motel Life

as Annie James

2003

Kim Possible: A Sitch In Time

as Preschool Kim Possible (voice)

2013

Very Good Girls

as Lilly Berger

2012

Now Is Good

as Tessa Scott

2014

Effie Gray

as Euphemia 'Effie' Gray

2014

Night Moves

as Dena Brauer

2013

The Last of Robin Hood

as Beverly Aadland

2023

The Equalizer 3

as Emma Collins

2014

Every Secret Thing

as Ronnie Fuller

2014

Yellowbird

as Delf (voice)

2015

2016

American Pastoral

as Merry Levov

2012

Celia

as Hannah Jones

2018

Please Stand By

as Wendy Welcott

-

The Bell Jar

as Esther Greenwood

2016

Brimstone

as Liz

2001

Tomcats

as Little Girl in Park

2002

Sweet Home Alabama

as Young Melanie

2001

Father Xmas

as Clairee

2016

The Escape

as Lily

2018

Ocean's Eight

as Penelope Stern

2017

Zygote

as Barkley

2019

Sweetness in the Belly

as Lilly Mitchell Abdal

-

2009

Coraline

as Coraline Jones (voice)

Production

-

The Bell Jar

as Producer

2018

Hello Apartment

as Director

2018

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