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Elle Fanning

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Mary Elle Fanning was born on the 9th of April 1998 in Conyers, Georgia, USA. Her step into stardom was when she was just two years 11 months old when she played the younger version of her sister, Dakota Fanning, in the blockbuster movie I Am Sam (2001), as Lucy, age 2 years. She then played younger Dakota again when Dakota was cast in "Taken" (2002) as Allie, age 3 years. But her first big independent movie without her sister was in 2003's Daddy Day Care (2003) as Jamie. She then had 2 guest appearances on TV, in "Judging Amy" (1999) and "CSI: Miami" (2002).

Elle was now becoming more and more successful and famous, and she got another role, this time in 2004, in The Door in the Floor (2004) with Kim Basinger. Her career seems to be getting better and better, as she accomplished 2 movies this year, 2005, Because of Winn-Dixie (2005) and now she is in post-production of I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2006).

Trivia

Younger sister of Dakota Fanning.

Enjoys playing soccer

Parents names are Joy and Steve.

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.

Learned the piano.

Is one of 14 grandchildren

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.

As a child, Elle played the role of newborn in her some of her big sister Dakota's projects.

Is of Scandinavian descent.

To celebrate her seventh birthday, she went with her family to see Cirque du Soleil perform "Quidam" during its run in Melbourne, Australia.

When she attended her first Hollywood premiere, she was only three and a half years old.

Dressed up as Marilyn Monroe for Halloween.

Her grandmother spent $US600 at an auction buying her an old cream container that used to belong to Marilyn Monroe.

Niece of Jill Arrington.

Was submitted for Emmy consideration for her guest-starring role on "House M.D." (2004).

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.

Has naturally curly hair.

Was home-schooled by her grandmother, Mary Jane Arrington until 2007.

Was ranked #19 alongside her sister Dakota on Entertainment Weekly's '30 Under 30' the actress list. (2008).

First name is pronounced "El", as in the letter L, not "Ellie".

Personal 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."

Where Are They Now

(August 2006) Has finished her movie Babel (2006).

(July 2007) Filming _Pheobe in Wonderland (2009)_.

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