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
age 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).
Fanning followed with more mature roles, playing Lewellen in Hounddog
(2007), Lily in The Secret Life of Bees (2008), the eponymous character in
Coraline (2009), 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 portrayed Manson girl Squeaky Fromme in the Quentin
Tarantino film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). |