• Dakota Fanning is an award winning film actress that has been acting since she was just five years old. She has co-starred opposite Hollywood heavy-hitters, Tom Cruise, Denzel Washington, Robert De Niro and Sean Penn.

  On March 7, 2009, Dakota Fanning officially announced she would be playing the role of 'Jane' in the upcoming Twilight sequel New Moon, started filming at the end of March in Vancouver.People.com: Dakota Fanning Set to Star in New Moon (March 7, 2009) E! Online had previously reported that Fanning was in talks to star in the film, and that "there were no auditions. They just offered it to her outright, and now they're in negotiations. They've been going back and forth."Eonline: New Moon Casting Scoop (January 21, 2009)

• Fast Facts

  1. Birth name: Hannah Dakota Fanning
  2. Date of birth: February 23, 1994
  3. Hometown: Conyers, Georgia
  4. Older sister of: Elle Fanning
  5. Loves to ride horses
  6. May join the cast of New Moon as Jane
  7. A member of the cheerleading quad forThe Vikings at The Campbell Hall Episcopal in North HollywoodJust Jared: Dakota Fanning Joins Cheerleading Squad (October 19, 2008)

• Family

  Hannah Dakota Fanning was born in Conyers, Georgia on February 23, 1994. Her mother Joy played professional tennis. Her father Steve J. Fanning played minor league baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals and now works as an electronics salesman in Los Angeles. Fanning is the older sister of Elle who is also an actress.

• Early Life

  At the age of five, Fanning appeared alongside Ray Charles on a television commercial for the state lottery. She guest starred on the NBC series ER, which she played a car accident victim with Leukemia. She also landed roles on Ally McBeal, Friends, Malcolm in the Middle and several other hit shows.

• I Am Sam

  In 2001 Fanning was chosen for her first movie role, starring beside Sean Penn in the movie I Am Sam. She played the daughter of a mentally handicapped man. Social services didn't feel that her father was capable of being a parent to her, so she was taken away. The movie is about her father's fight to get his daughter back. Fanning's role in I Am Sam won her Best Young Actor/Actress at the 2001 critic's choice awards.

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