Dakota Johnson Net Worth

Dakota Johnson's Quotes

• [on why she chose to be an actress] I felt so much when I was fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, I felt everything. I didn't understand [myself], I was so happy yet so angry and sad. That was the point when I realized that I needed to tell stories and make characters come alive and I needed to make people cry, and make people angry, and make people happy, and make them laugh.
• When I did The Social Network (2010), David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool.
• I've only been in long-term relationships. I've never really dated myself.
• I'm so happy when I'm working.
• I'd watch my parents work and think, 'Yeah, I'm going to do that.' It wasn't even a thing. It's the only thing I know how to do.

Interesting Facts about Dakota Johnson

1. Daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith.
2. Two maternal half-siblings: Alexander Bauer (son of Steven Bauer and Melanie Griffith) and Stella Banderas (daughter of Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith).
3. Four paternal half-siblings: Jesse Johnson (son of Don Johnson and Patti D'Arbanville), Grace Johnson (daughter of Don Johnson and Kelley Phleger), Jasper Johnson and Deacon Johnson (sons of Don Johnson and Kelley Phleger).
4. Ex-stepdaughter of Antonio Banderas.
5. Born in Austin, Texas and Melanie's OB GYN was Noble Doss. Pictures of Melanie can be seen in Dr. Doss's photo album in his office.
6. She is the third generation to be involved with the Golden Globes, as she was Miss Golden Globe in 2006, is the daughter of Don Johnson (Golden Globe winner for Miami Vice (1984)) and Melanie Griffith (Golden Globe winner for Working Girl (1988)), and granddaughter of Tippi Hedren (Golden Globe winner for Most Promising Newcomer, 1964).
7. She denied that she was in a 30-day rehab program at the Visions Teen Treatment Center in Malibu, CA, for drug and alcohol addiction in September 2007. She said that the press misinterpreted the fact that she was in therapy as a teenager because of some issues with her parents, who have both battled substance abuse.
8. Niece of actress Tracy Griffith and production designer Clay A. Griffith.
9. Granddaughter of Peter Griffith.
10. She took down her Facebook profile, because she didn't like being on it, even though she acted in the hit film The Social Network (2010) which is about the origins of Facebook.
11. Was considered one of the 55 faces of the future by Nylon Magazine's Young Hollywood Issue (May 2010).
12. On the audio commentary for the DVD release of The Social Network (2010), director David Fincher said that Dakota was "wonderful" in a "pretty thankless role," since she has only one scene as Justin Timberlake's one-night stand.
13. Once lived with musician Noah Gersh and later with actor Jordan Masterson.
14. Landed the coveted role of Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), the film adaptation of the best-selling erotic novel, by reading a long, sexually-explicit monologue from the Ingmar Bergman film Persona (1966). It was an unconventional choice for an audition piece, but Johnson felt that the filmmakers were looking for a leading lady who would address the sexy material in a mature, direct manner. When she advanced to screen testing she re-enacted the first and last chapters of the book with co-star Jamie Dornan.
15. As a child, she acted with her mother Melanie Griffith and her half-sister Stella Banderas in Crazy in Alabama (1999), but her family wouldn't let her act again until several years later, after she graduated from high school.
16. She appeared in 21 Jump Street (2012), the film version of the hit TV series 21 Jump Street (1987). Her half-aunt, Tracy Griffith, had appeared as a guest star on the original series in the 1989 episode 21 Jump Street: Eternal Flame (1989).
17. Director Sean Baker considered casting Dakota and her real-life grandmother Tippi Hedren together in his film Starlet (2012) before deciding on Besedka Johnson and Dree Hemingway.
18. At 31 years old in 2020, and with just a handful of credits, she has already acted with many popular sexy men in her films, such as Channing Tatum, Johnny Depp, Chris Hemsworth, Rami Malek, Brant Daugherty, Jamie Dornan, Benedict Cumberbatch, Justin Timberlake, Aaron Paul, Alex Pettyfer, Chris Pratt, Penn Badgley, David Duchovny, Paul Dano, Jason Segel, Ralph Fiennes, Ethan Hawke, Casey Affleck, Armie Hammer, Matthias Schoenaerts, Andrew Garfield, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Hamm, Jeff Bridges, Dave Franco, John Krasinski, Jake Owen, and the late Anton Yelchin.
19. She affectionately calls her grandmother Tippi Hedren, "Mormor" (a Swedish word for grandmother). Tippi's father was of Swedish descent. Dakota's other ancestry is English, Welsh, German, Norwegian, Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), Irish, Scottish, and distant Dutch and French Huguenot.
20. Has stated that she has never casually dated men, and that she has always had long-term relationships with her boyfriends.