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Elle Fanning
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April 9, 1998 in Conyers, GA
Biography:The younger sister -- by four years -- of actress Dakota Fanning (The Cat in the Hat, War of the Worlds), angel-faced Elle Fanning broke into show business as a child star about three years after her ascendant sibling. Born in 1998, Elle started out as an actress with traditionally child-oriented roles in family-friendly material; she provided a voice for the American version of Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro, then appeared in such pictures as the 2003 Daddy Day Care (as one of Eddie Murphy's young charges) and the 2005 Because of Winn-Dixie before making the broad leap to adult-oriented content. Subsequent projects included Babel (2006) and The Nines (2007). Fanning first received premier billing in not a feature but a short -- Brent Hanley's Day 73 with Sarah (2007) -- as a little girl who teams up with the ghost of her dead father to liberate her beleaguered mom from an abusive relationship. At about... Full Biography
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Elle Fanning and Felicity Huffman attend the Los Angeles special screening of "Phoebe in Wonderland"...
From left: Elle Fanning, Mira Sorvino and Jennifer Connelly in "Reservation Road" (Focus Features)
From left: Joaquin Phoenix, Elle Fanning and Jennifer Connelly in "Reservation Road" (Focus...
Right from center: Joaquin Phoenix, Elle Fanning and director Terry George on the set of...
Elle Fanning and Adriana Barraza in "Babel"
Elle Fanning, Adriana Barraza and Nathan Gamble in "Babel"
Dakota Fanning and Elle Fanning
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