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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
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Malcolm in the Middle
MADtv
ER
The Practice
The Early Show
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Ally McBeal
Friends
The Jay Leno Show
Family Guy
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Justice League Unlimited
The Fighting Fitzgeralds
Tomcats
Sweet Home Alabama
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
My Neighbor Totoro
Ocean's Eight
Kim Possible: A Sitch In Time
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
The Perfect Couple
The First Lady
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
All Her Fault
I Am Sam
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
American Pastoral
The Equalizer 3
The Cat in the Hat
RIPLEY
Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch
War of the Worlds
Uptown Girls
Man on Fire
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Coraline: Creepy Coraline
The Watchers
Coraline
Very Good Girls
Hounddog
Charlotte's Web
Now Is Good
Production Credits
Margo's Got Money Troubles
Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer
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