Dakota Fanning Biography

Dakota Fanning Biography

Birth Name : Hannah Dakota Fanning

Date Of Birth : February 23, 1994
Height : 5? 4?
Age : 16

Hannah Dakota Fanning, better known simply as Dakota Fanning, is an American actress. Fanning’s breakthrough performance was in I Am Sam in 2001. As a child actress, she appeared in high-profile films such as Man on Fire, War of the Worlds, and Charlotte’s Web. Fanning began transitioning to more adult roles with Hounddog and The Secret Life of Bees. Recent films have included The Twilight Saga and The Runaways. She has won numerous awards and is the youngest person to have been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Dakota Fanning was born in Conyers, Georgia, the daughter of Joy (née Arrington), who played tennis professionally, and Steve Fanning, who played minor league baseball and now works as an electronics salesman in Los Angeles. Her maternal grandfather was former American football player, Rick Arrington, and her aunt is former ESPN reporter Jill Arrington. Dakota is the older sister of Elle Fanning, also an actress.

Fanning began acting at the age of five after appearing on a Tide commercial. Her first significant acting jobthe NBC prime-time drama ER, which remains one of her favorite roles (“I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.”) was a guest-starring role in

Fanning subsequently had several guest roles on established television series, 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. In 2001, Fanning was chosen to star opposite Sean Penn in the movie I Am Sam, the story of a mentally challenged man who fights for the custody of his daughter (played by Fanning).

Dakota Fanning’s role in the film made Fanning the youngest person ever to be nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award, being seven years of age at the time. She also won the Best Young Actor/Actress award from the Broadcast Film Critics Association for her performance.

Dakota Fanning Movie List

* The Runaways (2010)

* The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
* Coraline (2009)
* Fragments (2009)
* Push (2009)
* The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
* Hounddog (2008)
* The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
* Charlotte s Web (2006)
* Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005)
* Hide & Seek (2005)
* Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has A Glitch (2005)
* Nine Lives (2005)
* War of the Worlds (2005)
* In the Realms of the Unreal (2004)
* Man on Fire (2004)
* Dr. Seuss The Cat in the Hat (2003)
* Uptown Girls (2003)
* Hansel and Gretel (2002)
* Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
* Taken (2002)
* Trapped (2002)
* I Am Sam (2001)
* Tomcats (2001)