This Day, That Year – February 23

This day in history we feature Dakota Fanning. An American actress who began her career as a child actress with the NBC drama ER, was born on this day 1994.

Trivia – Dakota Fanning

Hannah Dakota Fanning rose to prominence at the age of seven for her performance as Lucy Dawson in the drama film I Am Sam, for which she received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination at the age of eight, making her the youngest nominee in SAG history. Fanning played major roles as a child actress in the films Uptown Girls, The Cat in the Hat, Man on Fire, War of the Worlds, Dreamer, Hide and Seek, and Charlotte’s Web, and the eponymous character in Coraline.

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Fanning at the age of twelve, was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, becoming the youngest member in the academy’s history. Later that year, she was ranked 4th in Forbes list of “Top-Earning Stars Aged Under 21”, having earned an estimated $4 million in 2006. Fanning played Jane, a member of the Volturi Guard, in New Moon and reprised the role in Eclipse, based on novels by Stephenie Meyer. New Moon was released on November 20, 2009, and Eclipse was released on the following June. On in March 2009, she was ranked number three on the list of Forbes’ Most Valuable Young Stars after having earned an estimated $14 million. Fanning’s voice was heard in Rise, a documentary film commissioned by U.S. Figure Skating to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the crash of Sabena Flight 548 which resulted in the loss of the entire American team and subsequent cancellation of the 1961 World Figure Skating Championships. She read a poem written by U.S. national champion Laurence Owen that was said to be an eerie premonition of the afterlife. During the summer of 2011, she played Tessa in Now Is Good. Fanning also became the face of Marc Jacobs’ Oh, Lola! perfume campaign, but the ad was banned in the UK as the Advertising Standards Authority judged that “the ad could be seen to sexualize a child.” Fanning had a cameo role in the heist comedy Ocean’s 8, which was released in 2018. The same year starred as Sara Howard in the TNT historical television series The Alienist based on novel of the same name. In August 2018, TNT ordered a sequel series based upon the follow-up novel The Angel of Darkness, with Fanning set to return to reprise the role of Sara Howard. In 2019, Fanning played Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme in Quentin Tarantino’s comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, for which she and the cast of the film were nominated for the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. In December 2019, it was announced that Fanning and her sister Elle Fanning would star together in an adaption of Kristin Hannah’s 2015 novel, The Nightingale, which is set to be directed by Mélanie Laurent. In March 2021, the sisters announced the formation of a production company, Lewellen Pictures. Their company has a first-look deal with MRC Television/Civic Center Media.

Source – Wikipedia