
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 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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Known For
Acting History
2027
The Nightingale as Vianne
2025All Her Fault as Jenny Kaminski
2025Vicious as Polly
2024The Perfect Couple as Abby Winbury
2024The Watchers as Mina / Lucy
2024RIPLEY as Marge Sherwood
2023The Equalizer 3 as Emma Collins
2022The First Lady as Susan Elizabeth Ford
2021Oats Studios: Volume 1 as Barkley
2021OATS Studios as Barkley
2020Last Looks as Self
2020Viena and the Fantomes as Viena
2020Penn & Teller: Try This at Home as Self
2019The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
2019Sweetness in the Belly as Lilly Mitchell Abdal
2019Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood as 'Squeaky'
2019gen:LOCK as Miranda Worth (voice)
2018Ocean's Eight as Penelope Stern
2018Lie Detector as Self
2018Please Stand By as Wendy Welcott
2018The Alienist as Sara Howard
2017Zygote as Barkley
2016The Escape as Lily
2016American Pastoral as Merry Levov
2016Brimstone as Liz
2015The Benefactor as Olivia
2014Yellowbird as Delf (voice)
2014Night Moves as Dena Brauer
2014Every Secret Thing as Ronnie Fuller
2014Effie Gray as Euphemia 'Effie' Gray
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest
2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
2013The Motel Life as Annie James
2013The Last of Robin Hood as Beverly Aadland
2013Very Good Girls as Lilly Berger
2012The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 as Jane
2012Celia as Hannah Jones
2012Now Is Good as Tessa Scott
2011Rise as Laurence Owen
2010The Twilight Saga: Eclipse as Jane
2010The Runaways as Cherie Currie
2009The Twilight Saga: New Moon as Jane
2009The Jay Leno Show as Self
2009Coraline: Creepy Coraline as Self
2009Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline' as Self
2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
2009Winged Creatures as Anne Hagen
2009Coraline as Coraline Jones (voice)
2009Push as Cassie Holmes
2008Hounddog as Lewellen
2008The Secret Life of Bees as Lily Owens
2007Cutlass as Lacey
2006Charlotte's Web as Fern Arable
2005Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story as Cale Crane
2005Nine Lives as Maria
2005Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch as Lilo Pelekai (voice)
2005War of the Worlds as Rachel Ferrier
2005Vengeance Is Mine: Reinventing 'Man on Fire' as Self
2005Hide and Seek as Emily Callaway
2004Justice League Unlimited as Kid Wonder Woman (voice)
2004Man on Fire as Lupita Ramos
2004In the Realms of the Unreal as Narrator/Vivian Girls (Voice)
2004On Air with Ryan Seacrest as Self
2003Kim Possible: A Sitch In Time as Preschool Kim Possible (voice)
2003The Cat in the Hat as Sally Walden
2003The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
2003Uptown Girls as Ray Schleine
2002Taken as Allie Keys
2002Hansel & Gretel as Katie
2002Sweet Home Alabama as Young Melanie
2002Trapped as Abby Jennings
2001I Am Sam as Lucy Diamond Dawson
2001Father Xmas as Clairee
2001The Hire as Lily
2001Tomcats as Little Girl in Park
2001The Fighting Fitzgeralds as Marie
2000CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Brenda Collins
2000Strong Medicine as Edie's Girl
2000Malcolm in the Middle as Emily
1999The Early Show as Self
1999Family Guy as Little Girl (voice)
1998TRL
1997Ally McBeal as 5 Year Old Ally
1997The View as Self
1997The Practice as Alessa Engel
1996Spin City as Cindy
1995MADtv as Self
1994Friends as Mackenzie
1994ER as Delia Chadsey
1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
—Untitled Alaska Project
—The Bell Jar as Esther Greenwood
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