Dakota Fanning

Dakota Fanning
Fanning in 2020
Born	Hannah Dakota Fanning (1994-02-23) February 23, 1994 (age 30) Conyers, Georgia, U.S.
Alma mater	New York University (BA)
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1999–present
Relatives	Elle Fanning (sister) Rick Arrington (grandfather) Jill Arrington (aunt)

Hannah Dakota Fanning (born February 23, 1994) is an American actress.^[1] She rose to prominence as a child actress at the age of seven for playing the daughter of an intellectually challenged man in the drama film I Am Sam (2001), for which she received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, making her the youngest nominee in SAG history.^[2] Fanning had further roles as a child actress in Taken (2002), Uptown Girls (2003), The Cat in the Hat (2003), Man on Fire (2004), War of the Worlds (2005), Charlotte's Web (2006), The Secret Life of Bees (2008) and the lead voice role in Coraline (2009).

As an adult, Fanning went on to star in independent films, such as The Runaways (2010), Now Is Good (2012) and Effie Gray (2014), and played Jane Volturi in The Twilight Saga (2009–2012). 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 Squeaky Fromme in Quentin Tarantino's film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), Susan Ford in the drama series The First Lady (2022), and a CIA agent in The Equalizer 3 (2023). In 2024, she starred in the thriller miniseries The Perfect Couple and Ripley. For the latter, Fanning received a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress.