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Biography/Facts
This site is about the cute and talented actress Dakota Fanning. Dakota Fanning was born February 23rd, 1994, in Conyers, Georgia. Dakota has the cutest blue eyes and the most beautiful blonde hair. She wanted to show everyone what she could do since she was three years old. She even pretended to go through child birth, using a blanket as her stomach and her younger sister Elle played the baby. Elle, looks just like Dakota and plays the younger version of her sister in a lot of Dakota's films. At the age of 8, Dakota was the youngest to ever be nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award (SAG Award). When she received an award from BAFTA for her work in I am Sam in 2001, she was too short to reach the microphone to give her acceptance speech. Presenter Orlando Bloom held her up to the microphone for the duration of her speech, and her speech turned out to be quite long. She began her career at age five when she was picked out of thousands of hopeful kids to be in a National tide commercial. Not to long after her tide commercial she appeared in the hit television series “ER” at age six, followed soon after that on The Ally McBeal show as five-year-old Ally. Since Dakota was getting a lot of work in the L.A. area her parents decided they would move from their home town of Conyers, Georgia to the large city of L.A. They stayed with Dakota's aunt for a while and then got their own apartment and decided to stay in L.A, permanently since Dakota kept getting job offers. Soon after she moved to L.A. she guest starred in Strong Medicine and C.S.I. (Crime Scene Investigations). Dakota played her first role in a featured film in 2001 as Lucy Diamond Dawson, the extraordinary daughter of a mentally handicapped man played by Sean Penn in the movie I Am Sam. Her performance was enormously praised by the critics. When someone asked her how she was able to cry on cue for the camera, she replied that she thought about her goldfish that had died. She said that she could relate to the role because her aunt is mentally challenged, and cited an incident where her aunt said she couldn't come to Dakota's birthday party because she had to shave her legs. After her roles in I Am Sam and the teenager film Tomcats, she has appeared in such films as Trapped, Sweet Home Alabama, 24 Hours, and Hansel and Gretel. She is featured in the Steven Spielberg 20-hour SCI-FI Channel miniseries Taken, both as the narrator in all 10 episodes, but also in the pivotal role of the part alien part human child Allie Keys. She met Steven Spielberg at the Premiere of ET: The Extra Terrestrial, but he never came to the set of Taken. She has future roles scheduled in The Cat in the Hat, Uptown Girls and Man on Fire. Dakota has also appeared in the The Practice, Malcolm in the Middle, Spin City, and The Fighting Fitzgeralds. Dakota is home schooled and has her teacher travel everywhere with her. Dakota says her teacher has taught her so much! Dakota has been able to read since the early age of two. Dakota Fanning is an amazing young actress who is most recognized for her role as Lucy Diamond Dawson in the film I Am Sam in which she starred in at the ripe age of 6. Because of her role as Lucy, she became the youngest actress ever to be nominated for an SAG award. She has also had roles in many other films and TV guest appearances.
Facts
*Dakota loves Pizza
*Dakota has a younger sister named Elle, who's following her footsteps. Elle appeared in " I Am Sam," as the younger version of Dakota's character.
*Since Dakota was three years old, she was pretending to go through child birth. (Elle played the baby)
*Dakota began to read at the early age of two.
*She is the youngest and shortest actress ever to nominated for a SAG award.
*Dakota doesn't practice her lines very much, she just looks at them because they usually change.
*Dakota loves to know the characters name she is playing.
*Her first kiss was when she was seven, and she kissed a ten year old actor, Thomas Curtis, in "Sweet Home Alabama." Dakota played the young version of Reese Witherspoon's character, Melanie Smooter.
*Dakota says that the hardest thing about being an actress is saying good bye to the cast when the movie filming is over.
*Dakota says it's pretty easy to cry on cue because she just thinks about her goldfish that died.
*She is a fan of Cameron Diaz, Holly Hunter, and Julia Roberts.
*Dakota is a Ballerina and takes dance and piano lessons.
*Dakota really wants a dog.
*Dakota believes in aliens.
*Dakota use to swim, play soccer and take violin lessons
*Dakota's mother is a tennis player, and Dakota also played tennis
*Dakota was taken to an agency in Atlanta and they suggested for her to go "big time
*Dakota is one of 14 grandchildren
*Dakota ate Bryers ice-cream and cake with pink icing on her 9th birthday
*Dakota buys clothes from Oilily
*In 2003 Dakota lost her two front teeth
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