Elle Fanning

Known for ActingBorn 1998-04-09 (age 28)Conyers, Georgia, USA

Mary Elle Fanning (born April 9, 1998) is an American actress. As a child, she made her film debut as the younger version of her sister Dakota Fanning's character in the drama film I Am Sam (2001). She appeared in several other films as a child actress, including Daddy Day Care (2003), Babel (2006), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Phoebe in Wonderland (both 2008), and the miniseries The Lost Room (2006). She then had leading roles in Sofia Coppola's drama Somewhere (2010) and J. J. Abrams' science fiction film Super 8 (2011). Fanning played Princess Aurora in the fantasy films Maleficent (2014) and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019) while working in independent films such as Sally Potter's Ginger & Rosa (2012), Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon (2016), Mike Mills' 20th Century Women (2016), and Coppola's The Beguiled (2017). From 2020 to 2023, she starred as Catherine the Great in the Hulu period satire series The Great, for which she received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. She has since portrayed Michelle Carter in the Hulu limited series The Girl from Plainville (2022), made her Broadway debut in the play Appropriate (2023), and played a character based on Suze Rotolo in the biographical drama A Complete Unknown (2024).Read more

Movies & web series

Common Ground: Under Construction Notes

That Click

Penn & Teller: Try This at Home

House

The Disney Family Singalong

Criminal Minds

The Great

On the Red Carpet Presents: "A Complete Unknown"

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Predator: Badlands

MTV Movie & TV Awards

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Sigur Rós: Valtari Film Experiment

All the Bright Places

The Lost Room

Death in Apartment 603: What Happened to Ellen Greenberg?

CSI: Miami

Sentimental Value

Robot Chicken

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Rosebush Pruning

I Am Sam

Paris in Love

Judging Amy

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

20th Century Women

Taken

Ballerina

CSI: NY

Trumbo

A Complete Unknown

Conan

Phoebe in Wonderland

Babel

Maleficent

Mary Shelley

Déjà Vu

We Bought a Zoo

The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

Super 8

No Activity

The Boxtrolls

Day 73 with Sarah

The Girl from Plainville

A Rainy Day in New York

The Neon Demon

The Curve of Forgotten Things

The Kelly Clarkson Show