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Happy Birthday, Dakota Fanning!
By Jebbica | February 23, 2008
Dakota Fanning turns 14 today!
Dakota Fanning (born February 23, 1994) is an American child actress. Fanning’s breakthrough performance was in I Am Sam in 2001. As of 2007, her most well-known films have been War of the Worlds and Charlotte’s Web. She has won numerous awards, and is currently the youngest person ever to have been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Fanning was born Hannah Dakota Fanning in Conyers, Georgia, the daughter of Joy (née Arrington), who played tennis professionally, and Steve J. Fanning, who played minor league baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals and now works as an electronics salesman in Los Angeles. Her maternal grandfather is football player Rick Arrington and her aunt is ESPN reporter Jill Arrington. Fanning is the older sister of Elle Fanning, also an actress. Fanning’s mother had wanted to name her “Hannah” and her father wanted to name her “Dakota”; she has always used Dakota among her friends and family. Fanning is of half German descent and Irish origin. Fanning and her family are members of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Fanning is an avid reader, and includes among her hobbies knitting, swimming, piano, violin, ballet, and horseback riding. Dakota also wears ceramic orthodontic braces and a palatal expander. In 2006, she was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as the youngest person ever at the age of 12.
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February 23rd, 2008 at 7:43 am
14?? Wow I didn’t realize how old she was. It’s funny, Miley Cyrus is only a year older than her but Miley seems so much older.
February 23rd, 2008 at 6:30 pm
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! She is a great actress and verry beautiful. I wish all the hype about Hounddog would stop. Release the movie and let the ones who want to see it see it and the ones who don’t can stay away.