Elle Fanning Net Worth

Elle Fanning's Quotes

• Dakota [Fanning, her sister] is my favorite actress.
• [on acting] "I love it. I just love how you get to be different people and have different names."
• On being cast in The Door in the Floor (2004): "I'm glad they picked me to be Ruth."
• On what her favorite scene in Daddy Day Care (2003) is: "Oh I guess jumping in the flowers, and the water scenes, 'cause we got to be in bathing suits and swim in the water, and in the water fountain."
• On acting: "What's the best part of a movie? I love to know what my name is. It's just so fun. That's the first thing I ask. It's just fun because you have a different name in every movie."

Interesting Facts about Elle Fanning

1. Younger sister of Dakota Fanning.
2. Parents are Joy Fanning (aka Joy Arrington Fanning) and Steven Fanning.
3. Her mom named her Mary and her dad named her Elle, so her name is Mary Elle Fanning. Like her older sister, Dakota Fanning, she uses her middle name instead of her first name.
4. Learned the piano.
5. Casting notes for the role of young Ruth Cole in The Door in the Floor (2004) originally called for identical twins, because producers believed the workload of the character to be too much for one little girl to take.
6. As a child, Elle played the role of newborn in her some of her big sister Dakota's projects.
7. To celebrate her seventh birthday, she went with her family to see Cirque du Soleil perform "Quidam" during its run in Melbourne, Australia.
8. When she attended her first Hollywood premiere, she was only three and a half years old.
9. Dressed up as Marilyn Monroe for Halloween.
10. Her grandmother spent $US600 at an auction buying her an old cream container that used to belong to Marilyn Monroe.
11. Niece of ESPN reporter Jill Arrington, and Jill's husband, Dean Panaro. Granddaughter of Mary Jane Arrington and NFL quarterback Rick Arrington.
12. She was submitted for consideration for a Primetime Emmy nomination for her guest-starring role in the episode House M.D.: Need to Know (2006). She was also submitted for consideration for a BAFTA nomination for her supporting role in Super 8 (2011).
13. She donated a signed picture to Rocky Stone to be given away as a prize in a Dakota Fanning contest to benefit less-fortunate kids as part of the Toy Mountain Campaign 2006.
14. Was home-schooled by her grandmother, Mary Jane Arrington, until 2007.
15. Was ranked #19 alongside her sister, Dakota Fanning, on Entertainment Weekly's "30 Under 30" the actress list (2008).
16. Her real name is just plain "Mary". Uses her middle name, which is the ordinary French pronoun, "she". For that reason, it does not exist as a name in France. It is pronounced "El", as in the letter L, not "Ellie".
17. Her paternal grandmother, Katharina Kramb, was German. Her other ancestry is Irish, English, French, and Channel Islander (Jersey and Guernsey).
18. Is near-sighted and uses contact lenses most of the time. But she loves collecting "nerdy" looking glasses.
19. She and her family are members of the Southern Baptist Convention.
20. She was only three and a half years old when she attended her first Hollywood premiere.