Dakota Fanning

Dakota Fanning

Known For

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

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).

Movies Featuring Dakota Fanning

Fru! 2

Fru! 2 (2026)

as Delf (voice)
Sweetness in the Belly

Sweetness in the Belly (2019)

as Lilly Mitchell Abdal
Ocean's Eight

Ocean's Eight (2018)

as Penelope Stern
Yellowbird

Yellowbird (2014)

as Delf (voice)
Night Moves

Night Moves (2014)

as Dena Brauer
Effie Gray

Effie Gray (2014)

as Euphemia 'Effie' Gray
Celia

Celia (2012)

as Hannah Jones
Now Is Good

Now Is Good (2012)

as Tessa Scott
Rise

Rise (2011)

as Laurence Owen
The Runaways

The Runaways (2010)

as Cherie Currie
Coraline

Coraline (2009)

as Coraline Jones (voice)
Push

Push (2009)

as Cassie Holmes
Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek (2005)

as Emily Callaway
Man on Fire

Man on Fire (2004)

as Lupita Ramos
In the Realms of the Unreal

In the Realms of the Unreal (2004)

as Narrator/Vivian Girls (Voice)
Kim Possible: A Sitch In Time

Kim Possible: A Sitch In Time (2003)

as Preschool Kim Possible (voice)
Uptown Girls

Uptown Girls (2003)

as Ray Schleine
Trapped

Trapped (2002)

as Abby Jennings
I Am Sam

I Am Sam (2001)

as Lucy Diamond Dawson
Tomcats

Tomcats (2001)

as Little Girl in Park
The Bell Jar

The Bell Jar (N/A)

as Esther Greenwood