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Welcome to Dakota Fanning Source, your ultimate source 24/7 for all things Dakota Fanning. You may remember Dakota from movies such as "I am Sam", "Man on Fire", "War of the Worlds", "The Secret Life of Bees", and "The Twilight Saga". Here we aim to bring you all the latest news, photos, media and anything else you could possibly wish for. We hope you enjoy your stay and keep checking back for all the latest on Dakota Fanning.
Milestones
  • 2000 Portrayed the title character at age five in an episode of Ally McBeal (FOX)
  • 2000 TV debut in an episode of NBC s ER playing an accident victim who has leukemia
  • 2001 First major film role as the daughter of a mentally retarded man (Sean Penn) who fights for the custody in I Am Sam ; shared role with sister Elle Fanning; was the youngest actress nominated for a SAG Award for performance
  • 2001 Made feature film debut in Tomcats
  • 2002 Cast by Steven Spielberg in the lead child role of Allison Allie Clarke/Keys in the science fiction miniseries Taken (Sci-Fi Channel)
  • 2002 Played the young version of Reese Witherspoon s character in Sweet Home Alabama
  • 2003 Cast as Sally, opposite Mike Myers in the title role, in The Cat in the Hat
  • 2003 Played the uptight child to Brittany Murphy s immature nanny in Uptown Girls
  • 2004 Played a nine-year-old who wins over the heart of a retired assassin (Denzel Washington) hired to protect her from kidnappers in Man on Fire
  • 2005 Co-starred with Kurt Russell in Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story
  • 2005 Played the daughter of Robert De Niro in the thriller Hide and Seek
  • 2005 Re-teamed with Spielberg when she was cast opposite Tom Cruise in War of the Worlds
  • 2006 Starred in the live-action/computer-animated feature film Charlotte s Web, based on the book by E.B. White
  • 2008 Co-starred with Jennifer Hudson and Queen Latifah in the feature adaptation of The Secret Life of Bees
  • 2008 Played a young girl coping with the effects of abuse by singing and dancing like Elvis in the controversial film Hounddog
  • 2009 Co-starred in the supernatural thriller, Push, along with Chris Evans and Camilla Belle
  • 2009 Voiced the title character in the animated stop-motion horror fantasy film, Coraline
  • At age five appeared in a TV commercial for Tide detergent
  • Will play a young girl who witnesses her father s murder and who turns to religion in Winged Creatures (lensed 2007)