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Dakota Fanning
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February 23, 1994
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.... Full Biography

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Dakota Fanning promoting "The Secret Life of Bees" at the Toronto Film Festival on September 8,...
Dakota Fanning arrives at the premiere of her film "Push" at the Village theater on January 29,...
Dakota Fanning at the "Hounddog" Premiere during the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2007.
Dakota Fanning at the 14th Annual Critics' Choice Awards on January 8, 2009.
Dakota Fanning and Dolly Parton on October 26, 2006.
Dakota Fanning at the "Hounddog" Premiere during the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2007.
Dakota Fanning at "Charlotte's Web" Los Angeles Premiere ArcLight Theatre in Hollywood, on December...
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