Dakota Fanning
Dakota Fanning
Hannah Dakota Fanning is an American actress and model. At age seven, her performance in the 2001 film I Am Sam earned her a nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award at age eight in 2002, making her the youngest nominee in history. As a child actress, she went on to appear in high-profile films such as Man on Fire, War of the Worldsand Charlotte's Web...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth23 February 1994
CityConyers, GA
CountryUnited States of America
You have to be totally one hundred per cent committed to act. I do value everyone else's advice, but ultimately I have to listen to myself.
Sometimes I am kind of the opposite of my character. But that's the thing about acting, you get to play people who are not like you at all.
I have traveled to a lot of places, and you look at another young person who lives under very different circumstances than you but has the same dreams or the same interests or might be better at what I do than what I do. But I was born in a different place, and she was born in a different place. Just for that alone, you're kind of inherently given opportunity. That's something that I'm very grateful for, but I'm also very aware of.
I've been able to go so many places. I had the opportunity to go to Hong Kong when I was thirteen years old which is crazy. I lived there for three months. It was amazing. I couldn't ask for a more enriched life so far.
People recognize me all the time. I think it's really nice. I don't mind it at all. It feels kind of surreal when people know who you are and I think that it's really cool.
I can only live my life in this way. I don't think I would be living it a different way if I wasn't acting.
It's important to be a global citizen at the same time and appreciate different cultures and different people and different ways of life.
I always talk about my characters like they're real people.
If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.
I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty.
I feel very lucky to have been able to travel and see different parts of the world.
The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.
I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college.