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A big reason I wanted to do 'The Runaways' was to do something unlike anything that I've done before. I'm ready to have people see me in a different way than like the kid in 'I Am Sam' or 'War of the Worlds.' You have to kind of grow up
Fanning: 'Runaways' offered new challenge Mar 20, 2010
It was tough going to those places, but I've always been able to just go there and then come back
Fanning: 'Runaways' offered new challenge Mar 20, 2010
I didn't think I was going to be able to go and then two days before I decided to go and I had to find a dress and get ready at the last minute, but it was really fun. The theme was enchanted garden
Dakota Fanning attends first prom Jun 22, 2010
Hannah Dakota Fanning (born February 23, 1994), better known simply as Dakota Fanning, is an American teen actress. 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. She has won numerous awards and is the youngest person ever to have been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Fanning was born in Conyers, Georgia, the daughter of Joy (née Arrington), who played tennis professionally, and Steve Fanning, who played minor league baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals and now works as an electronics salesman in Los Angeles. Her maternal grandfather was former American football player, Rick Arrington, and her aunt is former ESPN reporter Jill Arrington. Dakota is the older sister of Elle Fanning, also an actress.
Her father had wanted to name her "Dakota" and her mother wanted to name her "Hannah".