Elle Fanning

Mary Elle Fanning was born on the 9th of April 1998 in Conyers, Georgia, USA, to Heather Joy (Arrington) and Steven J. Fanning. Her mother played professional tennis, and her father, now an electronics salesman, played minor league baseball. She is of German, Irish, English, French, and Channel Islander descent.

Elle's ascent into stardom began when she was almost three years old, when she played the younger version of her sister, Dakota Fanning's, character Lucy in the drama film Minä olen Sam (2001). She then played younger Dakota again in Taken (2002) as Allie, age 3. But her first big independent movie without her sister was in 2003's Isi hoitaa (2003) as Jamie. She then had two guest appearances on Amyn lailla (1999) and CSI: Miami (2002).

Elle was becoming more successful and she got another role, in 2004's Oven takana (2004) with Kim Basinger. Her career kept improving, as she had two movies in 2005, Ystäväni Winn-Dixie (2005) and I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2006).

She has since starred in a number of prominent films, including Benjamin Buttonin uskomaton elämä (2008), Super 8 (2011), Koti eläintarhassa (2011), and Maleficent - Pahatar (2014).