How much is Dakota Fanning worth?
| Net Worth: | $15 Million |
|---|---|
| Profession: | Professional Actress |
| Date of Birth: | February 23, 1994 |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Height: | 1.63 m |
About Dakota Fanning
The majority of us first met Dakota in I Am Sam when she was a small seven-year-old battling to stay with her developmentally handicapped father. She played vixenish parts in The Runaways and The Twilight Saga, but she has since matured into a lady.
Dakota Fanning and Sean Penn were starring together on the big screen while most young children were settling into elementary school. Dakota was the youngest member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voting for the 2007 Oscar winner while most children were getting ready for middle school. The world witnessed Fanning’s unconventional upbringing over the years, but she has maintained her composure and avoided the controversies that often befall other publicized children.
Emerging Star
The daughter of two professional athletes—a tennis player for a mother and a baseball player for a father—Hannah Dakota Fanning was raised in Georgia. She decided to become an actor when she was five years old, and she proved it by landing a role in a Tide commercial. It was sufficient for her family to relocate to Hollywood in order to support Dakota’s profession.
Before the world got its first proper look at the perky blonde when she took on a big part in 2001’s I Am Sam alongside Hollywood heavyweight Penn, she had guest appearances on various popular shows like ER and Ally McBeal. Dakota was the youngest actor to ever be nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for her portrayal of a little child trying to remain in the custody of her developmentally handicapped father.
With parts in the live-action rendition of Dr. Seuss‘s classic The Cat in the Hat, Man on Fire with Denzel Washington, Hide and Seek with Robert De Niro, and War of the Worlds as Tom Cruise‘s kid, her career took off quickly after that. She began working with Hollywood’s A-list when she was just 13 years old.
From Young Child to Vamp
Dakota tried to shed the label of “child actor” in 2007 when she appeared in the movie Hounddog, which caused controversy due to a scene in which she is raped.
Even though the movie was a box office and critical disaster, it fulfilled its aim in that fans would never view Dakota in the same way again despite the fact that it didn’t represent the actual rape.
With The Secret Life of Bees (2008), the sci-fi action-thriller Push (2009), and two very different roles—both with Kristen Stewart—in The Runaways, a biopic of Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, and the vampire series The Twilight Saga: New Moon, she continued to shift into more adult roles.
The young actress has begun to successfully abandon her precocious child star persona and take on more mature material, such as joining the Twilight sensation as an evil vampire. She seems to be resistant to the drawbacks of her youthful stardom as well. Dakota won the title of homecoming queen for her high school in North Hollywood two years in a row, proving that she hasn’t turned into a pariah among her peers despite living in the spotlight.
“I just love it. I love the feeling I get when I’m on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else. I love every aspect of it, I really, really do.”
