Dakota Fanning
From Hannah Dakota Fanning
Hannah Dakota Fanning (born on February 23, 1994) is an American actress in Conyers, Georgia. She is the daughter of Joy Fanning and Steve Fanning. Joy has played tennis professionally and Steve played minor league baseball for the St. Louis Cardinal, as of today he now works as an electronic salesman in Los Angeles. Her maternal grandfather was former American Footballer player, Rick Arrington, and her Aunt is former ESPN reporter Jill Arrington. She is the older sister of Elle Fanning, who is also an Actress.
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[edit] Acting Career
[edit] Early Years
She began acting at the age of five after appearing on a Tide commercial. Her first acting job was a guest-starring role in the NBC prime-time drama, ER, she said in a interview this was one of her favourite roles.
Dakota captured several guest roles on several television series, including CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Practice, Spin City. She also portrayed the title characters of Ally McBeal and The Ellen Show as young girls. In 2001, she was chosen to star opposite Sean Penn in the movie I Am Sam, the story of a mentally challenged man who fights for the custody of his daughter.Her role in the film made Dakota the youngest person ever to be nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award, being eight years of age at the time. She also won the Best Young Actor/Actress award from the Broadcast Film Critics Association for her performance.
[edit] 2002-2003
In 2002, director Steven Spielberg cast her in the lead child role of Allison "Allie" Clarke/Keys in the science fiction Taken. By this time, she had received positive notices by several film critics.
In the same year, she appeared in three films; as a kidnap victim who proves to be more than her abductors bargained for in Trapped; as the young version of Reese Witherspoon's character in Sweet Home Alabama, and as Katie in the movie Hansel and Gretel.
She was featured even more in two films released in 2003; playing the uptight child to an immature nanny played by Brittany Murphy in Uptown Girls, and as Sally in The Cat in the Hat.
Fanning did voice-over work for four animated projects during this period; as Satsuki in Disney's English language release of My Neighbour Totoro, as Kim Possible in preschool in the Disney Channel series Kim Possible, as a little girl in the Fox series Family Guy, and as young Wonder Woman in an episode of Cartoon Network's Justice League.
