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DAKOTA > FACTS

The Basics

Name: Hannah Dakota Fanning.
Known As: Dakota.
Birthday: February 23rd 1994.
Birthplace: Conyers, Georgia, USA.
Current Location: Los Angeles, California, USA.
Current Age: 13.
Eye Colour: Blue.
Hair Colour: Blonde.
Parents: Joy and Steve Fanning.
Siblings: Elle Fanning- more on Elle? Check out Totally Elle.
Pets: A horse named Goldie and a Schnoodle dog named Lewellen.

Hobbies

- Acting
- Knitting
- Dancing ballet
- Horseback riding
- Reading
- Piano

Gifts From Co-Stars

- Tom Cruise gave Dakota a cell phone for her 11th birthday. Her parents wouldn't let her have one beforehand and weren't too happy about this gift, but in the end, they let her have it.
- Katie Holmes gave her some gorgeous shoes.
- Robert De Niro gave her an American Girl doll for her 10th birthday that looked like her character Emily Callaway in "Hide and Seek". He also gave her a laptop.

Fun Facts

- Dakota has been reading since the age of two.
- Dakota loves to watch movies! "My Best Friend's Wedding", "Gone with the Wind", "Harry Potter", "Shrek", "Shrek 2" and "The Incredibles" are amoung her favourites.
- When Dakota was a lot younger, she pretended she was pregnant by stuffing a pillow up her shirt. Then she went through child birth and Elle was the baby.
- Dakota and Elle used to have a goldfish, but it flipped out of the bowl one night and died.
- Goldie is Dakota's horse, and all of his stuff is pink. Dakota loves braiding his hair and putting glitter on his hooves. He also has a mirror at the arena, which he can often be seen staring into!
- She doesn't mind going to the dentist.
- Her two front teeth had to be pulled out so there would be room for her permanent teeth to come through.
- Dakota loves to read! She likes the Harry Potter series, Lemony Snicket, Charlotte's Web and Nancy Drew books.
- Dakota has worn braces and she also had to wear an expander at night.
- When Dakota had braces, she liked to match the rubber band colours with the colour of her outfit.
- Dakota and Elle tried to become vegetarians, although that didn't last long, as they don't like vegetables!
- Dakota can speak French and Spanish, she is learning through school.
- Dakota collects dolls.
- Her favourite colour is pink.
- She likes going to the movies with her friends.
- Dakota and Elle are afraid of thunderstorms and lightening.
- She is a member of the Red Cross.
- When she was younger, she had lots of imaginary friends! She said they had strange names like Cobb, Tube, Bop, Jesse and Pappy.
- Dakota is one of fourteen grandchildren.
- She can play the violin and piano.
- She finds it easy to memorize things. On the set of 'Winged Creatures' she was able to memorize everyone in costar Josh hutcherson's Family.
- Knitting is one of Dakota's hobbies and she makes scarfs for her co-stars.
- Dakota loves names, and carried around a book of baby names with her wherever she went.
- New Zealand, Australia, Mexico, Japan, France, England and Canada are amoung some of the fabulous countries Dakota has already visited!
- She likes to pretend she's talking on her cell phone when no one is there, and that she has messages when there are none.
- Dakota has seen some of the websites on her on the internet, she thinks they're very nice and she is honoured that people take their time to do that for her.
- Dakota has been Alice from Alice in Wonderland, and Scarlet O'Hara for Halloween.
- She can see the fireworks on 4th July from her house.
- Dakota and Elle love to watch Fear Factor.
- Dakota is homeschooled, and has a tutour with her on set when she is filming.
- She would really like to go to college, but continue acting at the same time.
- Charlotte's Web is one of Dakota's favourite books. She says it's a beautiful story about friendship, and she always crys at the end.
- When Dakota and Elle were younger, they read The Cat in the Hat to each other all the time. Then Dakota went on to star in the movie!
- Some of Dakota's favourite actors and people she would like to work with are Morgan Freeman, Hilary Swank, Johnny Depp, Kate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Kate Winslet and Meryl Streep, Cameron Diaz and Holly Hunter.
- Dakota stays up late to watch shows about comedians of the past, such as Lucille Ball.

Career Facts

- Dakota's first commercial was for 'Tide' at age 5.
- Her first movie was "Tomcats".
- The first thing Dakota looks at on a script is what her character's name is.
- She started reading the script for "Hide and Seek" upstairs in her room, but had to come down and sit with her dad and sister because it was quite scary.
- Dakota only spent one day filming her scene for "Nine Lives", and it was done in one take.
- She is the youngest actress to be nominated for a SAG (Screen Actor's Guild) award. It was in 2002, for her performance in "I Am Sam".
- The aeroplane crash set was one of Dakota's favourites on "War of the Worlds".
- Her first kiss was with Tomas Curtis, on "Sweet Home Alabama".
- Dakota says she didn't find it hard to film the sad scenes in "I Am Sam", because she would think about her goldfish dying.
- She tries to learn as much as she can on every project she does.
- Dakota says her dark hair in "Hide and Seek" made her look scary, and she loved having dark hair.
- She doesn't practice her lines very much, just looks through them, because they always change.
- Dakota had wanted to work with Julia Roberts for a while, and was finally able to on "Charlotte's Web".
- She loves to promote her movies, like going to press conferences and premieres. She loves seeing everybody again and talking about the experiences they had on the movie.
- Tom Cruise would carry Dakota in his arms everywhere on the set of "War of the Worlds". It started one day when Steven Spielberg said, 'Tom, I think you should be carrying her.' Every day after that Tom joked to Dakota, asking if she was feeling a little heavier than in the day before.
- When Dakota learned she had been given the role as Lucy in "I Am Sam", she spent a long time jumping on her bed with joy and laughing down the phone to her grandmother.
- The hardest thing at the end of a movie is saying goodbye to everyone.
- Dakota loves to work, and likes to have time off too, but says it gets boring after a while, not working.
- She would like to try out directing when she's older.
- Dakota wants to act for the rest of her life!

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