Fanning, Elle

Fanning, Mary Elle is an American actress who was born on April 9, 1998[2]. In the drama film I Am Sam (2001), she made her acting debut as a younger version of her sister Dakota Fanning's character. She started out in film when she was just a kid, and her filmography includes such titles as Babel (2006), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), and Phoebe in Wonderland (2008). She received a nomination for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer in 2010 for her role in Somewhere, directed by Sofia Coppola. She won the Spotlight Award at the 2011 Hollywood Film Festival for her performance in J. J. Abrams' science fiction film Super 8. We Bought a Zoo (2011), Ginger & Rosa (2012), and the two Maleficent films (2014, 2019) in which she portrays Princess Aurora are among her subsequent leading roles.

Following Maleficent, Fanning began working in independent cinema, collaborating with auteurs in lead and supporting roles in films such as Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon (2016), Mike Mills' 20th Century Women (2016), Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled (2017), John Cameron Mitchell's How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017), Woody Allen's A Rainy Day in New York (2019), and Sally Potter's The Roads Not Taken (2020) At the age of 21, she made history in 2019 by becoming the youngest member of the Cannes Film Festival jury. [4][5] She plays Empress Catherine II in the Hulu series The Great (2020–present), for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series nomination as well as two Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy nominations and three Screen Actors Guild Award nominations Hulu's The Girl from Plainville, in which she played Michelle Carter, premiered in 2022.

Early life [ edit ]

Steven J. Fanning and Heather Joy (née Arrington) Fanning, both collegiate tennis players, had Fanning in Conyers, Georgia. For the St. Louis Cardinals' farm systems, Fanning was a minor league baseball player. [7][8]

Her great-grandfather Rick Arrington played American football, and her aunt Jill Arrington is an ESPN reporter. [9] William Farrar, a gentleman farmer, is considered one of the most distinguished ancestors of the Arrington family. She is the younger sister of fellow actress Dakota Fanning [10]. Both of their families attended Southern Baptist churches growing up. [13][12]

Career [ edit ]

Stardom and fame as a child actress, 2001-2013 [ edit ]

Fanning began performing at the young age of three. [14] She got her start in the industry by portraying a younger version of Dakota Fanning's characters in the TV movie Taken and the film I Am Sam. [15] Fanning landed her first role as a lead character in a film at the tender age of four, in the 2002 comedy Daddy Day Care. Casting her opposite Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger in 2004's The Door in the Floor was anecdotal evidence of her developing talent. Identical twins were going to be hired for the film's intensive shooting schedule, but the producers were so impressed with Fanning that they decided to use her instead. [1] Fanning had a small role as Sweetie Pie Thomas in the 2003 film Because of Winn-Dixie. She voiced Mei in the English dub of Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro alongside Dakota Fanning, who did the same for Elle's older sister Satsuki. She filmed the movie I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With later that year.

Fanning filmed her scenes as the "future granddaughter" of Dakota Fanning's Fern Arable in the 2005 film Charlotte's Web. [16] However, they were cut from the film. She portrayed Debbie Jones, the daughter of Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett's Richard and Susan Jones, in the 2005 film Babel around this time. Fanning filmed parts for both The Nines and Déjà Vu in the first few months of 2006. She filmed the science fiction TV miniseries The Lost Room in the middle of 2006. She also played the patient's daughter on the 2006 episode "Need to Know" of House: MD. In 2006, she made a guest appearance on Criminal Minds as Tracey in the episode "The Boogeyman." Fanning started getting offers for lead roles toward the end of 2006. The first of these was Emma Learner's in Reservation Road; she was the daughter of Grace and Ethan Learner, who had recently lost a child. The film follows the characters as they deal with the aftermath of a car crash in which Emma's brother was killed. [18]

While filming The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in early 2007, Fanning reunited with her Babel co-stars Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett in a small role as the younger version of Blanchett's character. In the middle of 2007, Fanning filmed her role as Phoebe in the film Phoebe in Wonderland, which also starred Felicity Huffman and was released in March 2009. In The Nutcracker in 3D, which ran from July to October of 2007, Fanning portrayed Mary. The movie premiered in late 2010 and was shot in Budapest, Hungary. Fanning and her sister Dakota were supposed to star in the 2008 film My Sister's Keeper together in March, but the project fell through after Dakota found out she would have to have her head shaved. Sisters stepped aside for newcomers Abigail Breslin and Sofia Vassilieva. [19]

It was announced in April 2009 by Variety that Fanning would play the lead role in Somewhere, a film written and directed by Sofia Coppola and released in 2010. The film follows Fanning's character, a "bad-boy" actor who is shaken to his core when the unexpected arrival of his daughter. The movie premiered in theaters during the 2010 Oscar season (see [20]). It won the Golden Lion at its debut appearance in Venice at the 67th International Film Festival. Fanning started filming Francis Ford Coppola's 2011 film Twixt, which was inspired by a dream, in late 2010. [22] Her character, a young phantom called "V," was portrayed by her. Fanning played the role of Alice Dainard in J. J. Abrams's science fiction drama Super 8 (2011). Released on June 10th, 2011, the film follows a group of teenagers as they cope with supernatural events plaguing their sleepy town. The Telegraph named Fanning as one of the film's highlights, and the Hollywood Film Festival honored her with the Spotlight Award. [3][24]

In December of 2011, Fanning was in We Bought a Zoo, directed by Cameron Crowe. [25] Her character, Lily, is a 13-year-old girl named Kelly who works at the zoo's restaurant and lives on the grounds with Scarlett Johansson's character. In the September 2012 drama film Ginger & Rosa, set in London in 1962, Elle Fanning starred as Ginger, opposite Alice Englert's Rosa. The movie, helmed by Sally Potter, came out on October 19, 2012 (soon after the film's release). [26] A. O. Scott of The New York Times praised Fanning, saying, "she shows a nearly Streepian mixture of poise, intensity, and technical precision." How good she is is terrifying, and it's hard to think of anything she couldn't accomplish. The Boston Globe's film critic, Ty Burr, gushed over her "luminous naturalism that seems the opposite of performance" and wrote, "Fanning easily convinces you of Ginger's emotional reality." "[28]

Since 2014: Acclaim on a Global Scale [ edit ]

In the 2014 Walt Disney film Maleficent, costarring Angelina Jolie and directed by Robert Stromberg, Fanning played the title role. Jolie portrayed Maleficent, while Fanning took on the role of Sleeping Beauty's Princess Aurora. In the same year she made her debut in Young Ones, an independent science fiction Western, she also played the lead role of jazz pianist Joe Albany's daughter Amy-Jo in the biopic Low Down. In 2015, Fanning starred in 2 films: Trumbo, directed by Jay Roach, in which she played the daughter of Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston), and 3 Generations, formerly titled About Ray, in which she portrayed a young transgender man alongside Naomi Watts and Susan Sarandon.

In 2016, Fanning attended the premiere of The Neon Demon at the Cannes Film Festival.

2016 saw her portray Jesse in Nicolas Winding Refn's psychological thriller The Neon Demon. In May 2016, the film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival. It opened on June 24, 2016, and it bombed at the box office. She co-starred with Greta Gerwig and Annette Bening in Mike Mills' 20th Century Women that same year (see references [32][33]). In a limited release beginning on December 28, 2016, [34] the film had its world premiere on October 8, 2016 at the New York Film Festival. After that, on December 25, 2016, she and Ben Affleck starred in the Prohibition-era drama Live by Night. [36] [37] [38] [39] [40]

Actress Elle Fanning was featured in the 2017 Sundance Film Festival premiere of The Vanishing of Sidney Hall, a feature-length drama directed by Shawn Christensen. [41] [42] In the same year, Fanning also appeared in John Cameron Mitchell's British-American science-fiction romantic comedy film How to Talk to Girls at Parties (based on a short story by Neil Gaiman), reuniting with Sofia Coppola in The Beguiled, in the Irish-American romance film Mary Shelley, directed by Haifaa al-Mansour, and in the music video for Grouplove's single "Good Morning" [43]

With Peter Dinklage, Elle Fanning starred in Reed Morano's 2018 film I Think We're Alone Now. On January 21, 2018, it debuted at the Sundance Film Festival. It was released on September 14th, 2018 [44] by Momentum Pictures. In addition, she co-starred with Ben Foster in the world premiere of Galveston, directed by Mélanie Laurent and shown at South by Southwest on March 10, 2018. World premiere at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival for Max Minghella's Teen Spirit, which Fanning starred in. It was made public on April 5, 2019, so that makes it [47]. [48]

In May of 2019, Fanning became the youngest person ever to serve on the international competition jury for the Cannes Film Festival. Fanning also had a starring role in Woody Allen's A Rainy Day in New York, released the same year. [50] Fanning will play Aurora again in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, set for release in October 2019. Both The Roads Not Taken (2020, Sally Potter) and All the Bright Places (2020, Brett Haley), based on the Jennifer Niven novel of the same name, starred Fanning alongside Javier Bardem and Salma Hayek. Fanning also co-starred with Nicholas Hoult as Catherine the Great in the historical comedy series The Great, which she starred in and executive produced that same year. In May of 2020, Hulu premiered the series. Fanning was nominated for the 2021 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Series for her performance in the role, which was widely praised by critics. She was nominated for her first Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series [6] thanks to her performance. [57]

After that, in 2022, she played Michelle Carter in the Hulu miniseries The Girl from Plainville, which was inspired by Conrad Roy's untimely demise[58]. [59]

Next, Fanning will co-star with her sister Dakota in the film adaptation of The Nightingale by the same name, which will reunite her with Laurent. Recently, Elle and Dakota founded Lewellen Pictures with a first look deal from MRC [60]. [61]

Filmography [ edit ]

Film [ edit ]

Television [ edit ]

Atari 2600 [ edit ]

Successes and acknowledgements [ edit ]

Separate Honors [ edit ]

Commendations for Musical Groups [ edit ]

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References [ edit ]

Referring to Resources Outside This Article [ edit ]

• IMDb's Elle Fanning
• Posts by Elle Fanning on Instagram