Dakota Fanning

Birthplace: Conyers, Georgia
Birthday: February 23, 1994

A precocious, blonde, blue-eyed child actor who projects both a sweetness and a worldliness, Dakota Fanning broke hearts as the daughter of a mentally-challenged man fighting to retain custody in the family drama "I Am Sam" (2001). The moppet had only been acting professionally for about a year when she landed this star-making role (which earned her a surprise nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award). Fanning debuted on a 2000 episode of the popular NBC medical drama "ER" in an episode about a child in need of a bone marrow transplant. She n…more

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Inside Steven Spielberg Presents: Taken
Making the Movie: Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat
8th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
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Barbara Walters Presents the 10 Most Fascinating People of 2005
The Fighting Fitzgeralds
Marie Fitzgerald

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2006
Starred in the live-action/computer-animated feature film "Charlotte's Web," based on the book by E.B. White
2005
Cast as Tom Cruise's daughter in Steven Spielberg's "War of the Worlds," based on H.G. Wells' novel
2005
Starred in the thriller "Hide and Seek" playing the daughter of Robert De Niro
2004
Starred opposite Denzel Washington in ''Man on Fire''
2003
Co-starred with Brittany Murphy in "Uptown Girls"