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Dakota Fanning
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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).
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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).
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Golden Globe Awards
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Malcolm in the Middle
ER
The Practice
The Early Show
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Ally McBeal
Friends
The Jay Leno Show
Strong Medicine
Family Guy
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Justice League Unlimited
The Fighting Fitzgeralds
Ocean's Eight
Tomcats
Sweet Home Alabama
The Perfect Couple
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
My Neighbor Totoro
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Kim Possible: A Sitch In Time
MADtv
The First Lady
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
All Her Fault
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
I Am Sam
American Pastoral
War of the Worlds
Uptown Girls
Coraline: Creepy Coraline
Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch
RIPLEY
Man on Fire
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The Cat in the Hat
The Equalizer 3
The Secret Life of Bees
Very Good Girls
Vicious
Hounddog
Coraline
The Watchers
Now Is Good
Charlotte's Web
Production Credits
Margo's Got Money Troubles
Death in Apartment 603: What Happened to Ellen Greenberg?
Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer
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