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Dakota Fanning

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).

Filmography

2027
The Nightingale

as Vianne

Movie
2026
The Sun Never Sets

as Wendy

Movie
2025
Vicious

as Polly

Movie
2024
The Watchers

as Mina / Lucy

Movie
2023
The Equalizer 3

as Emma Collins

Movie
2019
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

as 'Squeaky'

Movie
2012
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2

as Jane

Movie
2010
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

as Jane

Movie
2009
The Twilight Saga: New Moon

as Jane

Movie
2009
Coraline

as Coraline Jones (voice)

Movie
2009
Push

as Cassie Holmes

Movie
2005
Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch

as Lilo Pelekai (voice)

Movie
2005
War of the Worlds

as Rachel Ferrier

Movie
2004
Man on Fire

as Lupita Ramos

Movie
2003
The Cat in the Hat

as Sally Walden

Movie
2002
Trapped

as Abby Jennings

Movie
2025
All Her Fault

as Jenny Kaminski

TV Show