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Hannah Dakota Fanning (born February 23, 1994 in
Conyers, Georgia), better known simply as Dakota
Fanning, is an United States|American child
actress. 

Fanning rose to stardom as a young girl, being
chosen for a Tide (detergent)|Tide television
commercial|commercial at age five.

At the age of 8, she became the youngest person
ever to be nominated for a Screen Actors Guild
Award, for her supporting performance in I Am Sam
(2001). When she received the Best Young
Actor/Actress award from the Broadcast Film
Critics Association for her performance in I Am
Sam, she was too short to reach the microphone to
give her acceptance speech. Presenter Orlando
Bloom held her up to the mic for the duration of
her speech, which turned out to be quite long.

Dakota Fanning's sister, Elle Fanning, is a
budding actress. Elle's first roles were as the
younger version of Dakota's character in I Am Sam
and Taken. 

Dakota appeared on The Tonight Show on November
10, 2003, where she declared that she and her
sister shared a room, and described co-star Mike
Myers (actor)|Mike Myers as "very funny".  In a
subsequent Tonight Show interview on July 12,
2005, she revealed that she received a cell phone
from War of the Worlds co-star Tom Cruise for her
birthday, much to her parents' chagrin.

Following The Cat in the Hat, Dakota starred in
Man On Fire with Denzel Washington, directed by
Tony Scott.  She played Pita, a kidnapped
nine-year-old who wins over the heart of the
retired assassin (Washington).  She was hailed for
her grounded and realistic portrayal of Pita.  In
early 2005, she starred alongside Robert DeNiro in
Hide and Seek.  The movie was slammed by critics,
but her performance was hailed as nothing short of
a must-see.

The filming on Dreamer:  Inspired by a True Story
was completed in late October 2004, from which she
then went directly to the set of War of the
Worlds, where she stars alongside Tom Cruise.
Again, she moved straight to another film without
a break - in May 2005, she wrapped filming
Charlotte's Web with Robert Redford in Australia.

As of 2005, she is rumored to be starring in a
remake of the classic novel Alice In Wonderland. 

==Filmography==
*Charlotte's Web (2006 in film|2006, Fern)
*Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has A Glitch (2005 in
film|2005, voice of Lilo)
*Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005 in
film|2005, Cale Crane)
*War of the Worlds (2005 movie)|War of the Worlds
(2005, Rachel Ferrier, alongside Tom Cruise)
*Nine Lives (2005, Maria)
*Hide and Seek (2005 movie)|Hide and Seek (2005,
Emily Callaway, alongside Robert DeNiro)
*Man on Fire (2004 in film|2004, Pita, alongside
Denzel Washington)
*My Neighbor Totoro (2005, voice of Satsuki
Kusakabe, Disney's English dub)
*The Cat in the Hat, (2003 in film|2003, Sally)
*Uptown Girls (2003, Lorraine "Ray" Schleine)
*Taken, (2002 in film|2002, mini-series, Allie
Keys)
*Hansel & Gretel (2002, Katie)
*Sweet Home Alabama (movie)|Sweet Home Alabama
(2002, young Melanie)
*Trapped (2002, Abigail Jennings)
*Father Xmas (2001 in film|2001, Clairee)
*I Am Sam (2001, Lucy Diamond Dawson, alongside
Sean Penn)
*Tomcats (movie)|Tomcats (2001)


==Quotes==
*"I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since
I was a little girl. I always played the mom and I
played my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be
an actress on television and movies instead of
just around the house."

*"I just feel so blessed to be able to act,
because it's unbelievable to work with these great
actors that I have worked with and I have all
these friends that I've made on sets that I'll
have all my life. That's the best part about it."

*"I'm the pre-teen Maggie Smith, if Maggie Smith
had a stripper name."

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