Born Feb. 23, 1994, in Conyers, Ga., Hannah Dakota Fanning launched her acting career at age 5 when she appeared in a national TV ad for Tide detergent.Fanning's subsequent guest spots on "ER" and "Ally McBeal" led to a high-profile role as Sean Penn's daughter in I Am Sam (2001) -- a performance that earned the 8-year-old honors as the youngest Screen Actor's Guild Award nominee in history. Two years later, she landed parts in Uptown Girls and The Cat in the Hat (both 2003). Fanning then won accolades for her impressive turn opposite Denzel Washington in Man on Fire (2004) before starring in a string of films in 2005: Hide and Seek, Nine Lives, Dreamer and the box-office smash War of the Worlds.
As Fanning has matured, the in-demand young actress has continued to flex her considerable acting muscle by taking on serious subjects in films such as Hounddog (2006).
The Secret Life of BeesHaunted by her mother's death, 14-year-old Lily Owens (Dakota Fanning) escapes her dreary life on her father's farm and heads to Tiburon, S.C., with friend and caregiver Rosaleen Daise (Jennifer Hudson), spawning a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Set amid the hotbed of racial tensions in... Read More
PushOn the run from the Division, a shadowy government agency that uses people with psychic abilities to do their bidding, telekinetic Nick Gant (Chris Evans) and clairvoyant Cassie Holmes (Dakota Fanning) join forces to find a third psychic who can help them destroy the organization. But when the... Read More
DreamerDown-and-out horse trainer Ben Crane (Kurt Russell) gets an equally broken-down (but once great) racehorse as severance pay. But it will take the unwavering faith of his daughter (Dakota Fanning) to bring the two damaged souls together in a quest to win the Breeders' Cup Classic. Elisabeth Shue,... Read More
The RunawaysDakota Fanning stars in this musical biopic as Cherie Currie, lead singer of the 1970s all-girl rock group the Runaways, whose meteoric rise up the charts was saturated with drugs and other excesses of the era. Though the Runaways start out as a novelty act, the rock 'n' roll chops of Joan Jett... Read More
War of the WorldsIn this loose adaptation of H.G. Wells's novel about alien invasion, Tom Cruise stars as Ray, a divorced dockworker whose children (Dakota Fanning and Justin Chatwin) are staying with him for the weekend when a fleet of spaceships carrying tripod creatures appears in his neighborhood. Forced to... Read More
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) | PG-13 | |
The Runaways (2010) | R | |
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) | PG-13 | |
Push (2009) | PG-13 | |
R | ||
The Secret Life of Bees (2008) | PG-13 | |
PG | ||
Hounddog (2007) | R | |
Charlotte's Web (2006) | G | |
Nine Lives (2005) | R | |
Dreamer (2005) | PG | |
PG-13 | ||
Hide and Seek (2005) | R | |
Lilo and Stitch 2 (2005) | PG | |
NR | ||
R | ||
In the Realms of the Unreal (2004) | NR | |
PG | ||
Uptown Girls (2003) | PG-13 | |
TV-G | ||
Trapped (2002) | R | |
Hansel & Gretel (2002) | PG | |
Sweet Home Alabama (2002) | PG-13 | |
Taken (2002) | NR | |
I Am Sam (2001) | PG-13 | |
NR | ||
G | ||
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