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Hannah Dakota Fanning, better known simply as Dakota Fanning, is an American actress born February 23, 1994. Fanning's breakthrough performance was in I Am Sam in 2001.



As a child actress, she appeared in high-profile films such as Man on Fire, War of the Worlds, and Charlotte's Web. Fanning began transitioning to more adult roles with Hounddog and The Secret Life of Bees.



Dakota Fanning has won numerous awards, and is currently the youngest person ever to have been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award.



In January 2008, Dakota Fanning began filming the movie adaptation of The Secret Life of Bees, a novel by Sue Monk Kidd. Set in South Carolina in 1964, the story centers on Lily Owens (Fanning), who escapes her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father by running away with her caregiver and only friend (played by Jennifer Hudson) to a South Carolina town where they are taken in by an eccentric trio of beekeeping sisters (played by Queen Latifah, Sophie Okonedo and Alicia Keys). Her movies Coraline and Push were released on the same day, February 6, 2009.



Dakota Fanning has been cast as Jane in the upcoming film New Moon, the sequel to Twilight, based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer.