Dakota Fanning - Biography

Dakota Fanning American Actress
Date of birth: February 23rd, 1994
Place of birth:  Georgia, USA
Her parents: Steve and Joy Fanning
Her sister: Mary Elle Fanning (actress)

Dakota’s parents decided to travel to Los Angeles, and Dakota was chosen for a TV commercial after an audition . Then they moved to Los Angeles Permanently.

2001 Dakota acted in the film Tomcats, and then she played the role of Clairee in the film Father Xmas.

2002 She starred in the film I am Sam, with Sean Penn and Michelle Pfeiffer.  She was nominated for Screen Actors Guild Award, for her supporting performance in I Am Sam

2002 Dakota Fanning acted with Charlize Theron in the film Trapped, and also in the film Taken, directed by Steven Spielberg.

2003 Dakota acted with Brittany Murphy in the film Uptown Girls and in Cat in the Hat, with Mike Myers.

2004 Dakota appeared in the film Man on Fire, with Denzel Washington

2005 She played the role of Maria in the film Nine Lives, and then she acted with Robert DeNiro in Hide and Seek. Her most important film has been War of the Worlds, with Tom Cruise. Dakota traveled to Mexico, Japan and England.

She doubled the voice of Lilo in the second part of the film Lilo and Stitch.

2006 Dakota Fanning’s next film is Charlotte’s Web.

Filmography

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2006 Charlotte's Web of Gary Winick
2005 Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story of John Gatins
2005 War of the Worlds of Steven Spielberg
2005 Hide and Seek of John Polson
2005 Nine Lives of Rodrigo García
2004 Man on Fire of Tony Scott
2003 The Cat in the Hat of Bo Welch
2003 Uptown Girls of Boaz Yakin
2002 Hansel & Gretel of Gary J. Tunnicliffe
2002 Sweet Home Alabama of Andy Tennant
2002 Trapped of Luis Mandoki
2001 I Am Sam of Jessie Nelson
2001 Tomcats of Gregory Poirier
2001 Father Xmas de Marie Rose
1988 Tonari no Totoro of Hayao Miyazaki