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Hannah Dakota Fanning
(born February 23, 1994) is an
American
actress
and
model
. She is best known for her starring roles in the movies
Dreamer
,
Hounddog
, and
Fragments
(also known as Winged Creatures).
Fanning was born in
Conyers, Georgia
. Her mother, Heather Joy (nee Arrington), played tennis professionally and her father, Steven J. Fanning, played minor league baseball and now works as an electronics salesman in Los Angeles, California.
[1]
[2]
Her maternal grandfather is former
American football player
Rick Arrington, and her aunt is former ESPN reporter
Jill Arrington
.
[3]
Dakota is the elder sister of
Elle Fanning
, also an actress.
Fanning is of
English
,
French
,
Irish
and
German
ancestry
.
[4]
She and her family are Southern Baptist.
[5]
Dakota was famous for her performance at age seven in the 2001 film
I Am Sam
. This earned her a nomination for a
Screen Actors Guild Award
at age eight in 2002, as the youngest nominee in history.
[6]
Later, she appeared in high-profile films such as
Man on Fire
(2004),
War of the Worlds
(2005) and
Charlotte's Web
(2006). Fanning then began the transition to more adult roles with
Hounddog
(2007) and
The Secret Life of Bees
(2008). Her recent film roles have included the named character in
Coraline
(2009),
Cherie Currie
in
The Runaways
(2010), Annie James in "
The Motel Life
" (2013), and Jane in
The Twilight Saga
(2009?12).