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Filmography
Biography
Kicking off an impressive career in front of the camera at the tender
age of five, it was a mere three years later that actress Dakota Fanning
would become the youngest person ever to be nominated for a Screen
Actor's Guild Award for her role in the Sean Penn
drama I Am Sam.
She subsequently appeared in such efforts as Sweet
Home Alabama (2002) and director Steven
Spielberg's sci-fi miniseries Taken.
A Conyers, GA, native whose acting abilities became apparent when,
at the age of three, she acted out the entire process of pregnancy and
childbirth (with her younger sister Elle
substituting for the newborn baby) to her amused parents. Advised by an
agent to take their daughter to Los Angeles, it wasn't long before young
Fanning was cast in a commercial for Tide detergent. Television
appearances in ER and Ally
McBeal were quick to follow, and in 2001 she made her feature debut
in the comedy Tomcats.
Though the film was only seen by an unlucky few, her role in the same
year's I Am Sam
was a wide release that found the adorable young starlet a solid fan
base.
Later alternating between television and film with features such as Trapped and
roles on such high-profile series as Spin
City and Malcolm
in the Middle, her part opposite Brittany
Murphy in the 2003 comedy Uptown Girls
found the precocious youngster playing well off of her older co-star.
In 2003 Fanning could be spotted in The
Cat in the Hat, and it wasn't long before she was gearing up to
appear alongside Denzel
Washington and Christopher
Walken in the Tony Scott
thriller Man
on Fire.
2005 would prove to be Fanning's busiest year yet, with her taking
on prominent roles in no less than five high-profile projects. First up,
she took a creepy turn opposite Robert DeNiro in the horror flick Hide
and Seek. The ensemble drama Nine Lives and the horse-racing picture
Dreamer followed, but Fanning's biggest film of the year was undoubtedly
Stephen Spielberg's big-budget remake of War of the Worlds. She also
belatedly dubbed one of the English-language voices for the anime
feature My Neighbor Totoro, originally produced in 1988, or 6 years
before her birth. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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