Dakota Fanning
Acting
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).
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Filmography of
Dakota Fanning
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Mina / Lucy
... 2024
Emma Collins
... 2023
Barkley
... 2021
Viena
... 2020
... 2020
Lilly Mitchell Abdal
... 2019
'Squeaky'
... 2019
Penelope Stern
... 2018
Wendy Welcott
... 2018
Barkley
... 2017
Lily
... 2016
Merry Levov
... 2016
Liz
... 2016
Olivia
... 2015
Delf (voice)
... 2014
Dena Brauer
... 2014
Ronnie Fuller
... 2014
Euphemia 'Effie' Gray
... 2014
Annie James
... 2013
Beverly Aadland
... 2013
Lilly Berger
... 2013
... 2012
Hannah Jones
... 2012
Tessa Scott
... 2012
Laurence Owen
... 2011
... 2010
Cherie Currie
... 2010
... 2009
... 2009
... 2009
Anne Hagen
... 2009
Coraline Jones (voice)
... 2009
Cassie Holmes
... 2009
Lily Owens
... 2008
Lacey
... 2007
Lewellen
... 2007
Fern Arable
... 2006
Cale Crane
... 2005
Maria
... 2005
Lilo Pelekai (voice)
... 2005
Rachel Ferrier
... 2005
... 2005
Emily Callaway
... 2005
Lupita Ramos
... 2004
Narrator/Vivian Girls (Voice)
... 2004
Preschool Kim Possible (voice)
... 2003
Sally Walden
... 2003
Ray Schleine
... 2003
Katie
... 2002
Young Melanie
... 2002
Abigail "Abby" Jennings
... 2002
Lucy Diamond Dawson
... 2001
Clairee
... 2001
Little Girl in Park
... 2001
Esther Greenwood
Vianne