Dakota Fanning Net Worth

Dakota Fanning's Quotes

• I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.
• [on working with Denzel Washington in Man on Fire (2004)]: Working with him, I loved every minute of it. I couldn't wait to see him everyday. He's one of the best actors in the world and I loved observing him.
• I think Orlando Bloom is cute. I met him at an awards show. I was actually nominated and I won that one. When I went up on stage, they didn't have a step for me to step on at the Critics' Choice Awards so he had to hold me up. He held me for a LONG, LONG time!
• I've been very lucky enough to do all kinds of movies. All the movies that I've done have been very different and all the characters I've done have been very different. I feel very lucky to have been able to do the movies that I've done.
• I want to keep acting. I want to go to college, sure, but I really want to keep acting right now. It's so fun.

Interesting Facts about Dakota Fanning

1. She learned to read a little at the age of two.
2. At the age of eight, she became the youngest person to be nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award - for her supporting acting in the movie I Am Sam (2001).
3. When she received the Best Young Actor/Actress award from the Broadcast Film Critics Association for her performance in I Am Sam (2001), she was too short to reach the microphone to give her acceptance speech. Presenter Orlando Bloom held her up to the mike for the duration of her speech, which turned out to be quite long.
4. She began her acting career at the age of five when she was picked for a Tide detergent commercial.
5. Her father named her Dakota, her mother named her Hannah. She then was named Hannah Dakota Fanning.
6. Parents are Joy Fanning (aka Joy Arrington Fanning) and Steven Fanning.
7. Her favorite films include Gone with the Wind (1939), Steel Magnolias (1989) and Titanic (1997).
8. Dakota was schooled at home and on sets by her tutor, but she joined high school in her freshman year.
9. Looks up to Meryl Streep and Hilary Swank, "not just because they're great actresses, but because they are amazing people".
10. Fanning is an Anglicised form of the Gaelic Fionn, meaning "fair", and may have Norman roots from the Viking invasion of northern France. Her mother's maiden name Arrington has links to the east of England, notably Cambridgeshire.
11. She donated many signed items to Rocky Stone to be given away as prizes in a Dakota Fanning Contest to benefit less fortunate kids as part of the Toy Mountain Campaign 2005 and Toy Mountain Campaign 2006.
12. First time she visited England was on the June 19, 2005 with Tom Cruise, to attend the premiere of War of the Worlds (2005) at London's Leicester Square.
13. Loves to knit and has knitted scarfs for Tom Cruise, Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg and Tim Robbins.
14. For the 'sad' scenes in I Am Sam (2001), she thought of her pet goldfish, Flounder, dying.
15. Carried a book of baby names with her wherever she went as a child.
16. She has been to Canada, Mexico, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Japan, Australia, England and France.
17. Was a member of the Red Cross National Celebrity Cabinet for one year.
18. On her eleventh birthday, Tom Cruise gave her a cell phone.
19. Listed as a potential nominee on the 2004 Razzie Award nominating ballot. She was suggested in the Worst Supporting Actress category for her role in The Cat in the Hat (2003). She was also suggested as an official nominee in the "Worst Screen Couple" couple category with co-star Spencer Breslin in The Cat in the Hat (2003). She was relieved to get neither of these nominations.
20. Is a member of the Girl Scouts USA, and her sister Elle Fanning is a Brownie.