Hannah Dakota Fanning, an American teen actress, was born on February 23rd 1994 in Conyers, Georgia and has Irish and German ethnic dowry. Her mother, Joy, is a professional tennis player, while her father, Steve, played baseball.
Fanning is an avid reader and practices swimming, ballet and piano. At the age of seven, Fanning became the youngest actor ever nominated by the Actors Cinema Association Award to interpret the role of the devoted daughter of a man with mental problems in the movie “I Am Sam” starring Sean Penn. In addition to this nomination, Fanning won the Critics Choice Award in 2002 in “The Youngest Player” category. In 2005, she was the “Critics Choice Award” nomination in the same category for the role in the movie “Man on Fire”, and also won the MTV Movie Award in the category ‘Best Performance’ with the role from the movie “Hide and Seek “.
The Hollywood’s child prodigy played in 2004 with Tom Cruise in Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster ” War of the Worlds”.
In 2006, she borrowed her voice to Fern Arable character for the charming adaptation of the classic children’s book “Charlotte’s Web”.
Fanning also starred in: “Uptown Girls” with Brittany Murphy, “Cat” with Mike Myers, “Trapped” with Charlize Theron and Kevin Bacon, “Sweet Home Alabama” with Reese Witherspoon, “The secret life of Bees”, “Push”, and from 2009 she is a protagonist of the “Twilight” (“New Moon”) vampire sagas that all teenagers are crazy about.
