Biography of Dakota Fanning
Hannah Dakota Fanning popularly known by the name Dakota Fanning is an American actress. She was born on February 23, 1994 in Conyers, Georgia, America. Her father Steve Fanning works as an electronics salesman in Los Angeles and mother Joy Fanning is a professional Tennis player. Her younger sister Elle Fanning is also an actress. When she was of just five years Dakota went to a playhouse near her home. People running the playhouse noticed Dakota’s talent and advised her parents to take her to an acting agency. Her acting agency managed work for her as a star in a commercial of the Tide brand. Then their family decided to move to Los Angeles.
Soon after moving to Los Angeles Dakota got a break in the movie Tomcats where she played a small role of a little girl. Then she played the role of little girl Clairee in a short film ‘Father Xmas’. Dakota’s big break-through was when she got the role of Lucy Diamond Dawson in Hollywood movie ‘I am Sam’ after she passed the auditions in 2001. Her talent got recognition in the Hollywood after her work in movie I am Sam and she won several awards for her performance in the movie. She was awarded with ‘Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Young Actress’, ‘Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award’ for category ‘Youth in Film’, ‘Satellite Award’ for ‘Outstanding New Talent’ and ‘Young Artist Award’ for category ‘Best Performance in a Feature Film – Young Actress Age Ten or Under’. Then she was selected directly for the role of Abigail Jennings, ‘Abbie’ in thriller movie Trapped in 2002. After that she appeared in movies Sweet Home Alabama and Hansel and Gretel the same year.
Her career touched the new heights of success in year 2005-2006. She bagged many awards for her great job in different movies during this time span. Her appearance in the movie Nine Lives in the character of Maria received very positive critics and she was awarded with the ‘Best Actress Award’ in ‘Locarno International Film Festival’. The role Rachel Ferrier in movie War of the Worlds also bagged many awards for her. She was awarded with Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for category Best Young Actress; Saturn Award in category Best Performance by a Younger Actor; Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards for category Youth in Film. Dreamer was the another award winning movie for Dakota in year 2005; she got Young Artist Award for category ‘Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actress’.
In 2007 Dakota was awarded with ‘Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards’ for category ‘Favourite Movie Actress’ for playing the role of Fern Arable in movie Charlotte’s Web. After winning the Young Artist Award for category ‘Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actress’ for movie Dreamer she was once again awarded with the same award for her performance in movie The Secret Life of Bees in 2008-09.Dakota Fannings appeared as Janes Volturi in movie sequels of Twilight, ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’ in 2009 and ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’ in 2010.
Dakota also played the Voice roles for the characters in many animation movies. She gave her voice to the character Preschool Kim of the animation movie ‘Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time’; Satsuki Kusakabe of ‘My Neighbor Totoro’; Lilo of ‘Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch’. She also played the voice role of narrator in the documentary ‘In the Realms of the Unreal’.
She was the youngest nominee for Screen Actors Guild Award. She was ranked 9th in “E!” TV’s list of the cutest child stars in2005.Dakota joined the ‘Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences’ in 2006 and become its youngest member. Forbes ranked her 14th in the list of ‘The 20 Top-Earning Young Superstars’ in 2007. She was also listed on Forbes list of “The Celebrity 100″ at 94th rank in 2007.
Filmography
1 Tomcats(2001) as A sweet little girl
2 Father Xmas(2001) as Clairee
3 I Am Sam(2001) as Lucy Diamond Dawson
4 Trapped(2002) as Abigail Jennings Abbie
5 Sweet Home Alabama(2002) as Young Melanie
6 Hansel and Gretel(2002) as Katie
7 Uptown Girls(2003) as Lorraine Schleine Ray
8 The Cat in the Hat(2003) as Sally Walden
9 Man on Fire(2004) as Lupita Martin Ramos Pita
10 Hide and Seek(2005) as Emily Callaway
11 Nine Lives(2005) as Maria
12 War of the Worlds(2005) as Rachel Ferrier
13 Dreamer (2005) as Cale Crane
14 Charlotte’s Web (2006) as Fern Arable
15 Hounddog(2007) as Lewellen
16 The Secret Life of Bees(2008) as Lily Owens
17 Push(2009) as Cassie Holmes
18 Fragments – Winged Creatures(2009) as Anne Hagen
19 The Twilight Saga: New Moon(2009) as Jane
20 The Runaways(2010) as Cherie Currie
21 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse(2010) as Jane
22 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part-I (upcoming in2011) as Jane
23 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part-II (upcoming in2012) as Jane
24 The Motel Life(upcoming) as Annie James
25 Girls’ Night Out(upcoming) as Princess Margaret