Dakota FanningFilmography

Born:: February 23, 1994
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Kicking off an impressive career in front of the camera at the tender age of five, it was a mere three years later that actress Dakota Fanning would become the youngest person ever to be nominated for a Screen Actor's Guild Award for her role in the Sean Penn drama I Am Sam. She subsequently...Read More

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The Runaways

Actors: Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Scout Taylor-Compton

Synopsis: The story of the groundbreaking '70s female rock group the Runaways is recounted in this River Road Entertainment production focusing on the duo of guitarist/vocalist Joan Jett (portrayed by Twilight's Kristen Stewart) and lead vocalist/keyboardist Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning) as they navigate a Read More

1/1/10
The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Actors: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Dakota Fanning, Jackson Rathbone, Michael Sheen

Synopsis: Summit Entertainment presents this sequel to the hot box-office phenomenon Twilight with this follow-up adaptation in Stephenie Meyer's series of romantic fantasy novels. The film will tell the continuing tale of the vampire/human romance between Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart Read More

11/20/09
Push

Actors: Dakota Fanning, Djimon Hounsou, Chris Evans, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis

Synopsis: Lucky Number Slevin director Paul McGuigan takes the helm for this action thriller concerning a group of telekinetic American ex-patriots who band together in an attempt to take down the clandestine government agency that's genetically transforming normal citizens into powerful psychic warriors. Read More

2/6/09
Coraline

Actors: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Ian McShane, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders

Synopsis: A young girl walks through a secret door and discovers a parallel reality that is eerily similar to the life she already knows, yet deeply unsettling in a number of ways, in director Henry Selick's animated adaptation of Neil Gaiman's international best-seller. Eleven-year-old Coraline Jones Read More

2/6/09
Hurricane Mary

Actors: Dakota Fanning, Elle Fanning, Patricia Clarkson, Chris Cooper, William H. Macy, Laura San Giacomo

Synopsis: A devoted Irish-American mother (Patricia Clarkson) wages a tenacious battle to get her two disabled twin daughters (Dakota and Elle Fanning) into the public school system in director Arvin Brown's heartfelt docudrama. William H. Macy, Chris Cooper, and Laura San Giacomo co-star in a film produced Read More

1/1/09
The Secret Life of Bees

Actors: Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Queen Latifah, Sophie Okonedo, Alicia Keys, Paul Bettany

Synopsis: Gina Prince-Bythewood's adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd's novel The Secret Life of Bees stars Dakota Fanning as Lily, a 14-year-old growing up in a small Southern town in 1964. She is haunted by memories of shooting her mother when she was a young girl. Lily lives with her emotionally distant father Read More

10/17/08
Hounddog

Actors: Dakota Fanning, Cody Hanford, Piper Laurie, David Morse, Afemo Omilami

Synopsis: A precocious but troubled young girl living in 1950s-era Alabama seeks solace in the music of Elvis Presley in director Deborah Kampmeier's controversial tale of childhood trauma and musical healing. An air of repression lingers over the home of spirited youngster Lewellen (Dakota Fanning), who Read More

9/19/08
Fragments

Actors: Forest Whitaker, Kate Beckinsale, Guy Pearce, Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson

Synopsis: In the aftermath of a gruesome restaurant murder, the survivors of the attack are left to ponder their own mortality and how it relates to their connection to society. Forest Whitaker, Guy Pearce, Kate Beckinsale, and Dakota Fanning headline Little Fish director Rowan Woods' adaptation of Roy Read More

2008
Cutlass

Actors: Virginia Madsen, Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning, Chevy Chase

2007
Charlotte's Web

Actors: Julia Roberts, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese, Oprah Winfrey, Cedric the Entertainer

Synopsis: E.B. White's classic children's story comes to the screen in this live-action adaptation with an all-star voice cast. Fern Arable (Dakota Fanning) is a young girl growing up on her family's farm. When a sow gives birth to some piglets, Fern's father (Kevin Anderson) intends to do away with the Read More

12/15/06
Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story

Actors: Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning, Elisabeth Shue, Kris Kristofferson, Oded Fehr

Synopsis: A man and his young daughter face almost impossible odds as they struggle to help an injured horse return to the racetrack in this family-friendly drama. Ben Crane (Kurt Russell) is a horse trainer whose career has gone into a bit of a slump, and after years as his own boss, he's signed on to work Read More

10/21/05
Nine Lives

Actors: Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Elpidia Carrillo, Glenn Close, Stephen Dillane

Synopsis: Filmmaker Rodrigo García takes an unusual look into the lives of nine different women in this episodic drama. Each of the film's nine sequences has been staged as a single shot, using the Steadicam system to allow the camera to follow the action fluidly and without cuts. In these short episodes Read More

10/14/05
War of the Worlds

Actors: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto, Justin Chatwin, Tim Robbins

Synopsis: An ordinary man has to protect his children against alien invaders in this science fiction thriller, freely adapted from the classic story by H.G. Wells. Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) is a dockworker living in New Jersey, divorced from his first wife Mary Ann (Miranda Otto) and estranged from his two Read More

6/29/05
Hide and Seek

Actors: Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen, Elisabeth Shue, Amy Irving

Synopsis: A newly single father discovers his daughter is caught up in a web of evil in this thriller. David Callaway (Robert De Niro) has been left to raise his nine-year-old daughter, Emily (Dakota Fanning), on his own after the unexpected death of his wife. David is at first amused to discover that Emily Read More

1/28/05
Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch

Actors: Dakota Fanning, Chris Sanders, Tia Carrere, David Ogden Stiers, Kevin McDonald

Synopsis: The animated feature-length film Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch follows the characters from the Oscar-nominated movie Lilo & Stitch. Everything seems to be going smoothly as the film begins, with Stitch acceptably assimilated into his adopted family and everyone planning for a gigantic hula Read More

2005
In the Realms of the Unreal

Actors: Larry Pine, Dakota Fanning

Synopsis: Award-winning short filmmaker Jessica Yu makes her feature-length debut with In the Realms of the Unreal, a documentary about outsider artist Henry Darger. Born in 1892, Darger lived in Chicago and worked as a janitor for most of his life. When he died in 1972, his landlord found his life's work Read More

12/17/04
Man on Fire

Actors: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Christopher Walken, Giancarlo Giannini, Radha Mitchell

Synopsis: A man whose ideals have been shattered for the last time is out for violent justice in this thriller. Creasy (Denzel Washington) is a former United State intelligence agent-turned-mercenary who has seen too much of the violence and corruption in the world and has become jaded and withdrawn. Creasy Read More

4/21/04
Justice League Unlimited: Kid Stuff

Actors: Olivia D'Abo, Soren Fulton, Dakota Fanning, Shane Haboucha, Kyle Alcazar

Synopsis: It's the Justice League vs. the sinister Arthurian trickster Mordred, who has succeeded in banishing all adults from the world. In order to thwart the bad guy, four of the Leaguers -- Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern -- must transform themselves into eight-year-olds! Listen for Dakota Fanning Read More

2004
Friends: The One With Princess Consuela

Actors: Paul Rudd, Dakota Fanning, Steven Eckholdt, James Michael Tyler, Steve Ireland

Synopsis: Upon discovering that she can now legally change her name to anything she likes, new bride Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) assumes the identity of "Princess Consuela Bananahammock," much to the bemusement of her husband, "Crap Bag" -- er, Mike (Paul Rudd). Elsewhere, a morose Joey (Matt LeBlanc) turns to an Read More

2004
Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat

Actors: Mike Myers, Alec Baldwin, Kelly Preston, Dakota Fanning, Spencer Breslin

Synopsis: Following up on the success of 2000's How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Imagine Entertainment presents The Cat in the Hat, their second live-action adaptation of a classic Dr. Seuss book. Starring Mike Myers, the film follows the adventures of Conrad (Spencer Breslin) and Sally Walden (Dakota Fanning Read More

11/21/03
Uptown Girls

Actors: Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning, Marley Shelton, Donald Faison, Jesse Spencer

Synopsis: In this comedy from director Boaz Yakin (Remember the Titans), Brittany Murphy stars as Molly Gunn, the daughter of a dead rock star, who lives off her inheritance and has never worked a day in her life. When her father's estate is swindled away from her, Molly suddenly finds her life of luxury Read More

8/15/03
Hansel & Gretel

Actors: Taylor Momsen, Jacob Smith, Delta Burke, Howie Mandel, Gerald McRaney

Synopsis: One of The Brothers Grimm's best loved fairy tales gets an overhaul using the latest in visual effects technology in this comedy-drama for the whole family. A little girl (Dakota Fanning) has a hard time getting to sleep, so her father (Daniel Roebuck) dusts off a book of children's stories and Read More

10/18/02
Sweet Home Alabama

Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, Patrick Dempsey, Candice Bergen

Synopsis: After establishing herself as a bankable star with the fish out of water comedy Legally Blonde, Reese Witherspoon returns in what could be described as a "fish back in water" comedy. Melanie Carmichael (Witherspoon) is a successful New York fashion designer who is dating Andrew Hennings (Patrick Dempsey Read More

9/27/02
Trapped

Actors: Charlize Theron, Courtney Love, Stuart Townsend, Kevin Bacon

Synopsis: A mother is caught in a race against time to save her child in this taut suspense thriller. Dr. Will Jennings (Stuart Townsend) and his wife, Karen (Charlize Theron), find their world has been turned upside down when they're taken hostage and held in different cities while their young daughter is Read More

9/20/02
Taken

Actors: Dakota Fanning, Alonso Oyarzun, Julie Benz, Steve Burton, Julie Ann Emery

Synopsis: Executive-produced by Steven Spielberg, the ten-episode, 20-hour miniseries Taken was one of the most ambitious projects undertaken by cable TV's Sci-Fi Network, ultimately costing 40 million dollars -- a price that proved well worth it, inasmuch as the series posted the network's highest-ever Read More

2002
I Am Sam

Actors: Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning

Synopsis: Sean Penn stars in this drama as Sam Dawson, a developmentally disabled adult who has been working at a coffee shop and raising his daughter Lucy (Dakota Fanning) for seven years. Sam receives help in his parenting duties from a circle of trusted confidantes, including his ADD-afflicted best Read More

12/28/01
Family Guy: To Live and Die in Dixie

Synopsis: Chris (voice of Seth Green) gets a paper route so he'll be able to buy a birthday present for his junior high crush. He earns enough money to buy the girl a bottle of perfume. "It'll make you smell like Elizabeth Taylor," he tells her. "I guess that means you'll smell like bourbon and Vicodin." Read More

2001
ER: The Fastest Year

Synopsis: Weaver (Laura Innes) is off suspension and back on the job. Greene's (Anthony Edwards) father (John Cullum), suffering from terminal cancer, is checked into the ER with pneumonia. Carter (Noah Wyle) continues having difficulty coming to grips with the attack that injured him and killed Lucy. Abby (Maura Tierney Read More

2000
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Blood Drops

Synopsis: An 18-year-old girl and her four-year-old sister are the only survivors when a suburban Las Vegas family is brutally slain. All evidence indicates that the family was butchered by the members of a cult. But in the course of his investigation, Grissom (William L. Petersen) -- who was the first Read More

2000
My Neighbor Totoro

Synopsis: This superbly animated children's tale is directed by Hayao Miyazaki, one of Japan's most beloved animators. The story follows Satsuke and Mai, two young girls who find their new country home is in a mystical forest inhabited by a menagerie of mystical creatures called Totoros. They befriend O Read More

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