Dakota Fanning

At 30 years old, Dakota Fanning has this physical status:

Hannah Dakota Fanning (born February 23, 1994) is an American actress.

She rose to fame at the age of seven for her role as Lucy Dawson in the drama film I Am Sam (2001), for which she received a Screen Actor Guild Award nomination at age eight, making her the youngest nominee in SAG history.

Fanning appeared 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). Fanning continued with more mature roles, including Lewellen in Hounddog (2007), Lily in The Secret Life of Bees (2008), the eponymous character in Coraline (2009), Cherie Currie in The Runaways (2010), and Jane Volturi in The Twilight Saga (2009-12).

Effie Gray (2014), a biographical film, and the drama Now Is Good (2012) and Night Moves (2013).

She appeared in the heist comedy Ocean's 8 in 2018 and appeared in The Alienist, a period drama miniseries.

In the Quentin Tarantino film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), she played Manson girl Squeaky Fromme. Fanning made her modeling debut in 2009 when she was included on the pages of fashion publications Elle, Vanity Fair, and Cosmopolitan, among others.

In 2014, she appeared in New York Fashion Week in 2014 and at the opening ceremonies of Fashion Week New York S/S 2015.

Early life

Fanning was born in Conyers, Georgia. She attended a Montessori School in Covington. Heather Joy (née Arrington) played tennis professionally, while her father, Steven J. Fanning, played minor league baseball and later worked as an electronics salesman in Los Angeles, California. Rick Arrington, a former American football player, and Jill Arrington, a former ESPN reporter, are among her maternal grandparents. William Farrar, a gentleman who was among the Arrington family's most awaited ancestors, is ranked among the Arrington family's most notable ancestors. Fanning is the elder sister of actress Elle Fanning, and they were brought up as Southern Baptists.

Personal life

Fanning graduated from Campbell Hall School in Studio City, California, where she served on the varsity spirit cheerleading squad and was twice named homecoming queen. She attended the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University, where she concentrated on women's studies, with a focus on the representation of women in film and culture from 2011 to 2014.

Source

Acting career

When Fanning was a child, she was an actress at the Towne Lake Arts Center in Woodstock, Georgia, where she appeared in small plays. She began acting in a Tide television commercial at the age of five in 1999. Her first notable acting work was in a guest appearance on NBC prime-time drama ER, which remains one of her favorite roles:

Fanning appeared on television shows, including CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Practice, and Spin City. She also portrayed the title characters of Ally McBeal and The Ellen Show as young girls.

Fanning was selected to appear opposite Sean Penn in the film I Am Sam, the story of a mentally impaired man who fights for his daughter's custody (played by Fanning). Fanning was the youngest person to be nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award at the time, despite being seven years old at the time. She also received the Broadcast Film Critics Association's Best Young Actor/Actress award for her role. Fanning's appearance would later be included in Rufus Wainwright's "Across the Universe" music video; the song itself was included in I Am Sam.

In the science fiction miniseries Taken, director Steven Spielberg starred Fanning in the lead child role of Allison "Allie" Clarke/Keys. Fanning "has the most captivating young actress called upon" to carry a considerable weight by this time, according to Tom Shales of The Washington Post, who wrote that she had received positive remarks from several film critics, including Tom Shales of The Washington Post, who wrote that Fanning "has the right sort of otherworldly look at her."

Fanning appeared in three films this year, including as the young version of Reese Witherspoon's character in Sweet Home Alabama and as Katie in the film Hansel and Gretel.

She appeared in two well-known films a year later, playing the uptight child to an immature nanny portrayed by Brittany Murphy in Uptown Girls and As Sally in The Cat in the Hat. In addition, Fanning did voice-over work on four animated projects during this period, including voicing Satsuki in Disney's English language release of My Neighbor Totoro, a little girl in the Fox series Family Guy's English language release, and a young Wonder Woman in Cartoon Network's "Kids Stuff" episode "Kids Stuff."

Pita, a nine-year-old who wins over the heart of a retired mercenary (Denzel Washington), was hired to shield her from kidnappers in 2004. Fanning "is a pro at only ten years old, and creates a heart-winning character," Roger Ebert wrote. Mackenzie is a young girl who is moving out of the house Monica and Chandler are buying in 2004, and she appeared on season ten of the television series Friends.

Hide and Seek was her first appearance in 2005, opposite Robert De Niro. The film was generally favorable, but critic Chuck Wilson called it "a fascinating meeting of equals" if the child actor [Fanning] challenged the master [De Niro] to a game of stare-down.

In the direct-to-video film Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, Fanning performed Lilo Pelekai (taking over for Daveigh Chase). In addition, she appeared in Rodrigo Garca's film Nine Lives (released in October 2005), in which she appeared in an unbroken nine-minute scene with actress Glenn Close, who had her own praise for Fanning. She's one of those gifted people who come along every now and then." Fanning appeared in Coraline during this time as the leading lady.

Dreamer's filming was completed on Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (opposite Kurt Russell) in late October 2004.

Kris Kristofferson, who plays her character's grandfather in the film, said she is like Bette Davis reincarnated. Fanning became a registered member of Girl Scouts of the United States during a special ceremony that was followed by a screening of the Girl Scouts of the San Fernando Valley Council's.

Fanning went on to star in War of the Worlds, co-starring Tom Cruise. Both films were released in reverse order (war in June 2005 and Dreamer in October). "How quickly she figures out the situation in a sequence, how quickly she frames it, monitors it, and how she would actually respond in a real situation" is praised by war director Steven Spielberg.

Fanning went straight to another film without fail: Charlotte's Web, which she started filming in May 2005 in Australia, premiered on December 15, 2006.

Fanning worked on the film Hounddog in press reports as a "dark tale of violence and brutality, with Elvis Presley adulation in the rural South" during the summer of 2006. Fanning's parents have been chastised for allowing her to film a scene in which her character is beaten. Fanning defended the film, saying to Reuters, "It's not really happening." It's a film, and it's called acting."

Despite the fact that the film was both a failure at the box office and with critics, Fanning's performance was lauded by Roger Ebert, who compared her to Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver.

She was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the same year, becoming the youngest student in the academy's history. She was ranked 4th on Forbes' list of "Top-Earning Stars Aged Under 21" in 2006, earning an estimated $4 million.

Winged Creatures co-star Kate Beckinsale, Guy Pearce, Josh Hutcherson, and Academy Award winners Forest Whitaker and Jennifer Hudson produced Fragments – Winged Creatures in the spring of 2007. Anne Hagen plays Anne Hagen, a girl who witnesses her father's murder and who converts to faith in the aftermath. Fanning appeared on a short film titled "Culass," one of Glamour's "Reel Moments" based on readers' personal essays in July. Kate Hudson narrated Cutlass.

Fanning's film Push, which centers on a group of young American expatriates with telekinetic and clairvoyant abilities who disguise from the Division (a US government department) in Hong Kong, banded together to try to break away from the division's control. Cassie Holmes, a 13-year-old psychic, appeared in Fanning.

Fanning began filming The Secret Life of Bees, a Sue Monk Kidd novel. The story follows Lily Owens (Fanning), who escapes her lonely life and tense friendship with her father by running away with her caregiver and only friend (played by Jennifer Hudson) to a South Carolina town where an eccentric trio of beekeeping sisters (played by Queen Latifah, Sophie Okonedo, and Alicia Keys) - set in South Carolina in 1964.

On the same day, February 6, 2009, her films, horror animation Coraline, and science fiction thriller Push were released.

In the film My Sister's Keeper, actors Kate and Anna were cast in March 2008. However, when Dakota learned she would be required to shave her head for the role, she dropped out of the film, as did Elle. The two sisters were replaced; Abigail Breslin took over as Anna Fitzgerald, and Sofia Vassilieva was cast as Kate Fitzgerald.

In New Moon, Fanning played Jane, a Volturi Guard, and reimagined the role in Eclipse, based on Stephenie Meyer's novels. On November 20, 2009, the first moon was visible, and Eclipse was announced on June the following year. After earning an estimated $14 million, she ranked third on Forbes' Most Valuable Young Stars list in March 2009.

Cherie Currie, the band's lead singer, appeared in The Runaways film in 2010, alongside Kristen Stewart, Stella Maeve, and Scout Taylor-Compton. Fanning filmed Breaking Dawn from the beginning of the year to early 2011. Jane is the protagonist.

In Rise, a documentary film supported by the United States, Fanning's voice was heard. Figure Skating on the fiftieth anniversary of Sabena Flight 548's crash, which resulted in the death of the entire American team and subsequent cancellation of the 1961 World Figure Skating Championships. Laurence Owen, the national champion of the United States, read a poem that was ostensibly a prelude to death.

Now Is Good, she played Tessa in the summer of 2011. Fanning also became Marc Jacobs' Oh, Lola! The perfume campaign was banned in the United Kingdom, but the Advertising Standards Authority ruled that "the ad could be seen to sexualize a child."

Annie James appeared in The Motel Life in 2011, which was released on November 8, 2013. Fanning appeared in Effie Gray, written and co-starred by Richard Laxton, Julie Walters, Derek Jacobi, and Claudia Cardinale in the fall of 2011.

Dena Brauer, a wealthy financial eco-terrorist who appeared in a thriller film Night Moves opposite actors Jesse Eisenberg and Peter Sarsgaard, played her leading role in August 2012. Kelly Reichardt produced the film. Night Moves chronicles three eco-terrorists who work on an organic farm and collaborate on a plot to demolish a hydroelectric dam.

Beverly Aadland was played in the Errol Flynn biopic The Last of Robin Hood in January 2013. Fanning appeared in Franny later this year. Viena and the Fantomes as Viena in November; a roadie with a punk rock band in the 1980s. The film was supposed to be released in 2015 but it was later announced digitally on June 30, 2020.

In February 2014, she appeared in a voice role in the animated film Yellowbird.

Every Secret Thing, Laura Lippman's co-starring Diane Lane, Elizabeth Banks, Danielle Macdonald, Colin Donnell, and Nate Parker, was released in the United States in May 2015.

Jack Roth appeared on the film Brimstone in 2015. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fanning and Kit Harington had replaced Mia Wasikowska and Robert Pattinson in the film, respectively. Primary recording dates are set to begin in June 15 and will be held in Romania, Spain, and Germany.

In July 2016, Fanning was cast in a film version of The Bell Jar as Esther Greenwood.

Fanning appeared in Neill Blomkamp's Zygote in 2017 as part of Blomkamp's sequence of experimental short films distributed by Oats Studios.

Fanning appeared in the heist comedy Ocean's 8, which was released in 2018. Sara Howard appeared in TNT's historical television series The Alienist, based on a novel of the same name. TNT ordered a sequel based on the follow-up book The Angel of Darkness in August 2018, with Fanning set to reprise Sara Howard's role. In Quentin Tarantino's comedy "Squeaky" Fromme, Fanning and the cast of the film were nominated for the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture in 2019.

Fanning and her sister Elle Fanning would appear in an adaptation of Kristin Hannah's 2015 book The Nightingale, which is set to be directed by Mélanie Laurent in December 2019. The sisters announced the establishment of Lewellen Pictures in March 2021. MRC Television/Civic Center Media is a television broadcasting company in the United Kingdom.

Source