Dakota Fanning

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Hannah Dakota Fanning (born 1994) is an American actress. She was born in the state of Georgia, and her sister Elle Fanning is also an actress. She has been nominated for many awards, and whenever a child actress starts gaining attention, she is referred to as "the next Dakota Fanning." She attends New York University, and continues to work on film projects.

Dakota Fanning has performed in the following roles:

• I Am Sam as Lucy. Her performance made her the youngest person to be nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award, and she was inducted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, becoming its youngest member.
• Taken as Allie.
• Uptown Girls as Larraine.
• Hide and Seek as Emily.
• The Cat in the Hat as Sally.
• Man On Fire as Lupita.
• My Neighbor Totoro as Satsuki (English voice).
• War of the Worlds as Rachel. See Cute but Cacophonic.
• Charlotte's Web as Fern.
• Hounddog as Lewellen. This film drew controversy when it was revealed that her character would be raped.
• The Secret Life of Bees as Lily.
• Coraline as Coraline (voice).
• Push as Cassie.
• The Runaways as Cherie Currie.
• The Twilight Saga as Jane (New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn).

Dakota Fanning provides examples of the following tropes:

• Contractual Purity: See Hounddog above.
• Creepy Child: Tends to remind some people of that movie, Scanners.
  • Also her role as Emily in Hide and Seek.
  • And as Jane in the Twilight series.
• Former Child Star
• She Really Can Act: Not that anyone doubted her abilities before, but her performances in Push and The Runaways were praised for being more befitting of an adult actress and still making it work.
• Those Two Actors: She has been in four films with Kristen Stewart even as a love interest.
  • Three of them are in the same continuity.