Elle Fanning Biography
Elle Fanning is an American actress I Am Sam (2001), Daddy Day Care (2003), Babel (2006), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Phoebe in Wonderland (both 2008), and The Lost Room (2006). She rose to fame after starring in the miniseries Taken (2002).
Elle Fanning Career
Acting was Fanning’s first love before she turned three. In the TV miniseries Taken and the motion picture I Am Sam, she played younger versions of the roles played by her older sister Dakota. At the age of four, Fanning secured her first solo part in the comedy Daddy Day Care in 2002. In 2004, she was chosen to play Ruth in the film The Door on the Floor, which starred Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger. Due to the demanding shooting schedule, the film’s producers decided to use Fanning alone after being so taken with her. Originally, they had planned to recruit identical twins. In the latter part of 2003, Fanning made a brief appearance as Sweetie Pie Thomas in the film Because of Winn-Dixie.
In 2004, she voiced Mei in the English dubbing of Hayao Miyazaki’s animated feature My Neighbor Totoro, costarring with her sister Dakota Fanning, who portrayed Elle’s older sister, Satsuki. She shot I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With Later That Year. Fanning recorded parts for Charlotte’s Web as the “future granddaughter” of Dakota’s Fern Arable early in 2005. The scenes were omitted from the final version. She portrayed Debbie in the mid-2005 movie Babel, which starred Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett as Richard and Susan Jones’ daughters. In early 2006, Fanning filmed scenes in both The Nines and Déjà Vu. In mid-2006, she filmed The Lost Room, a science-fiction TV drama.
She played the patient’s daughter in the House: MD episode “Need to Know” that aired in 2006. In 2006, she portrayed Tracey, a minor character, in an episode of Criminal Minds titled “The Boogeyman”. By year’s end, 2006, Fanning was booking major roles. She portrayed Emma Learner in Reservation Road, the bereaved daughter of Grace and Ethan Learner, in the first of these. The aftermath of a fatal vehicle accident involving Emma’s brother is the subject of the movie.
With a brief cameo in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Cate Blanchett’s younger self, Fanning reconnected with her Babel co-stars Brad Pitt and Blanchett in the beginning of 2007. Felicity Huffman co-starred with Fanning in the Wonderland film Phoebe, which was released in March 2009 and had its premiere in the middle of 2007. Fanning played Mary in the July–October 2007 3D production of The Nutcracker. It was made available towards the end of 2010. Dakota, Fanning’s sister, was supposed to appear in My Sister’s Keeper in March 2008. However, the plan was abandoned when Dakota found out she would have to shave her head. Sofia Vassilieva and Abigail Breslin took the sisters’ place.
Screenwriter Sofia Coppola’s 2010 picture Somewhere, starring Dakota Fanning, was announced by Variety in April 2009. The main character of the story, played by Fanning, is a “bad-boy” actor who is forced to reconsider his life once his daughter shows up out of the blue. During the 2010 Oscar season, the movie was released. It won the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice Film Festival, its first film festival. Beginning in late 2010, Fanning worked on Francis Ford Coppola’s Twixt (2011), a film based on Coppola’s dream. Additionally, she was in the part of “V,” a youthful ghost. As Alice Dainard, Fanning starred in J. J. Abrams’ science fiction movie Super 8 in 2011.
The film, which debuted on June 10, 2011, is about a group of kids in a small village who had to deal with weird things occurring to them. One of the best parts of the movie, according to The Telegraph, is Fanning, who won a Spotlight Award at the Hollywood Film Festival. In December 2011, Fanning starred in Cameron Crowe’s We Bought a Zoo. She portrayed 13-year-old Lily, who lives on the grounds with her lone mom, Scarlett Johansson, and works at the zoo’s restaurant. In September 2012, Fanning co-starred as Ginger in the drama film Ginger & Rosa, which was set in London in 1962, with Alice Englert playing Rosa.
Robert Stromberg’s 2014 Walt Disney picture Maleficent stars Fanning and Angelina Jolie. Fanning portrayed Sleeping Beauty Princess Aurora, while Jolie portrayed Maleficent. In the same year, she starred in the historical film Low Down, which is a biographical account of the life of jazz pianist Joe Albany, playing the part of Albany’s daughter Amy-Jo, who provides the narrative’s point of view. Additionally, she made an appearance in the independent science-fiction Western Young Ones. 2015 marked Fanning co-starring as Nikola, the daughter of Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) in Jay Roach’s Trumbo, and co-starring as a young transgender guy in 3 Generations (formerly known as About Ray) with Naomi Watts and Susan Sarandon.
She starred as Jesse in Nicolas Winding Refn’s psychological thriller The Neon Demon in 2016. In May 2016, the movie made its global premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. When it was released on June 24, 2016, the box office performance was not good. She starred alongside Greta Gerwig and Annette Bening in Mike Mills’s 20th Century Women that same year. On October 8, 2016, the movie made its global premiere at the New York Film Festival. On December 28, 2016, it went on limited distribution. After that, on December 25, 2016, she co-starred in Ben Affleck’s thriller Live by Night, which was set during the Prohibition era.
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall, a feature-length drama directed by Shawn Christensen, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2017, and starred Fanning. The same year, Fanning starred in six films: the Irish-American romance film Mary Shelley, directed by Haifaa al-Mansour; the British-American science-fiction romantic comedy film How to Talk to Girls at Parties (based on a short story by Neil Gaiman), a film in which she reunited with Sofia Coppola called The Beguiled; and the music video for the song “Good Morning” by Grouplove.
In Reed Morano’s 2018 film I Think We’re Alone Now, Fanning featured with Peter Dinklage. Momentum Pictures released it on September 14, 2018, following its international premiere on January 21, 2018, at the Sundance Film Festival. Furthermore, she starred in Mélanie Laurent’s Galveston, which was directed by Ben Foster and had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 10, 2018. In that same year, Fanning starred in Max Minghella’s Teen Spirit, which debuted internationally in September 2018 at the Toronto International Film Festival. On April 5, 2019, it was made available.
Fanning became the 72nd annual Cannes Film Festival’s youngest-ever juror when she was named to the international competition jury in May 2019. Alongside Timothée Chalamet and Selena Gomez, Fanning participated in Woody Allen’s romance comedy A Rainy Day in New York that same year. Fanning returned to the role of Aurora in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil in October 2019. In 2020, Fanning starred in two films: Sally Potter’s The Roads Not Taken, starring Salma Hayek and Javier Bardem, and Brett Haley’s All the Bright Places, starring Justice Smith and based on the Jennifer Niven novel of the same name. In addition to acting as Catherine the Great opposite Nicholas Hoult, Fanning executive produced and acted in the historical comedy series The Great that same year.
The series premiered on Hulu in May 2020. Fanning was nominated for a 2021 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy after receiving critical acclaim for the portrayal. In addition, she was nominated for her first Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in recognition of her performance. In the 2022 Hulu miniseries The Girl from Plainville, she portrayed Michelle Carter, a character inspired by Conrad Roy’s death. Alongside Corey Stoll and Sarah Paulson, she debuted on Broadway in the play Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins in December 2023. Fanning and her sister Dakota will reunite in the upcoming film The Nightingale, which is based on the same-named novel. Elle and Dakota just launched Lewellen Pictures with an MRC first-look deal.
Elle Fanning Age
Fanning was born on April 9, 1998, in Conyers, Georgia, United States. She is 25 years old as of 2023 and she celebrates her birthday on the 9th of April every year.
Elle Fanning Height and Weight
Fanning stands 5 feet 9 inches or 1.75 m (1.75 meters) tall and weighs 59 kg (130 lbs).
Elle Fanning Family
Fanning was born in Conyers, Georgia, to Heather Joy Arrington and Steven J. Fanning. Her father played minor league baseball for teams affiliated with the St. Louis Cardinals. Her maternal grandfather was American football player Rick Arrington, and her aunt was ESPN reporter Jill Arrington. Counted among the Arrington family’s most notable ancestors is the gentleman farmer William Farrar. Fanning is the younger sister of actress Dakota Fanning; according to family custom, both sisters go by their middle names instead of their given names. They were raised as members of the Southern Baptist Church.
Elle Fanning Boyfriend
Fanning previously shared a romantic relationship with The Handmaid’s Tail actor Max Minghella. In an April 2023 interview with Harper’s Bazaar, the actress revealed their breakup. Moreover, Fanning said that her perspective on love hasn’t changed despite the breakup. Since then, Fanning has moved past her ex-partner and is now seeing magazine executive Gus Wenner. Fanning has no children.
Elle Fanning Salary
Fanning earns an annual salary of about $100,000-$500,000.
Elle Fanning Net Worth
Fanning has an estimated net worth of about $1 Million – $10 Million which she has earned through her career as an actress.
Elle Fanning Aurora
Fanning portrayed Princess Aurora in the fantasy films Maleficent (2014) and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019). Maleficent has served as the Moors’ protector and guardian throughout the five years after King Stefan’s passing. Aurora has ruled as their queen. Maleficent serves, but Prince Phillip’s native realm of Ulstead views her as evil. Maleficent’s trusting and ferocious companion Diaval hears Phillip making a proposal to Aurora. Maleficent warns against the union after hearing this from him, but Aurora swears to disprove her.
King John and Queen Ingrith, Phillip’s parents, throw a private banquet. When Ingrith mockingly brings up the sleeping curse that was once placed on Aurora and brings up King Stefan’s passing, Maleficent remains composed. Claiming outright that Maleficent killed two human fairy poachers who were last seen close to the Moors Maleficent becomes enraged and appears to curse John when Ingrith denies her bond as a mother to Aurora. John then slips into a deep sleep.
Maleficent says that she did not curse him, but Aurora doesn’t think so. Phillip begs his mother to try kissing the King to rouse him up. Because Ingrith does not love John, she resists and her feeble attempt is unsuccessful. Maleficent is shot by Ingrith’s servant Gerda with an iron bullet as she runs from the castle.
After being hurt, Maleficent falls into the water and is saved by an enigmatic flying creature. She finds herself waking up in a tunnel where she and other fairies have been hiding. Among them are Borra, a warlike fairy who prefers open battle with humans who murdered the poachers near the Moors, and Conall, their calm leader who saved Maleficent.
One of the few Dark Phoenix Fae, strong fairies pushed into hiding and on the verge of extinction by human oppression, is Maleficent. She is also the final descendent of the formidable and old Dark Fae ancestor known as the Phoenix. Conall and Borra think Maleficent is essential to bringing an end to the war or peace with humans because of how strong her magic is.
Although Aurora is pleased that the Moor residents are invited to the royal wedding, she is becoming disillusioned with being an Ulstead noblewoman. When Aurora finds out that Ingrith despises all Moor fairy folk, she becomes enraged, hating their affluence at a time when her country has suffered, and accusing them of being responsible for her brother’s passing. With the help of Lickspittle, a de-winged pixie, and iron weapons and a deadly crimson powder, Ingrith is quietly preparing to destroy all fairies and woodland creatures.
Additionally, Aurora finds out that Ingrith used Maleficent’s ancient cursed spindle to curse John. When Ingrith learns, she locks Aurora up. The Moor folk find themselves confined to the castle’s chapel upon their arrival. At Ingrith’s direction, Gerda discharges the deadly crimson powder by playing the chapel’s organ. In the final moments before Gerda falls to her doom, fairies Knotgrass and Thistlewit manipulate the organ to become unplayable, and the unselfish fairy Flittle gives her life to save everyone.
When the Dark Fae attack Ulstead, soldiers start killing them until Maleficent enters the fight by summoning the power of the Phoenix. She almost kills Queen Ingrith, but Aurora says that only Maleficent is her mother and begs Maleficent’s humanity to spare her. The Queen pulls her crossbow, distracting Maleficent in the process. After saving Aurora, Maleficent is hit by the arrow and turns to ash. Aurora is devastated and laments Maleficent’s passing. However, Maleficent is reborn as a Phoenix as Aurora’s tears fall over the ashes. Terrified, Ingrith flees by hurling Aurora from the tower in an attempt to divert Maleficent’s attention. She is saved by Maleficent. As Ingrith tries to flee, Borra and the other Dark Fae intercept her.
The Ulstead soldiers retreat as Phillip brings about harmony between the fairies and humans. Returning to her fairy form, Maleficent bestows her benediction on Aurora and Phillip. When Maleficent receives it from Lickspittle, she breaks the spindle’s spell and wakes John up. Until she is able to accept the peace between the two peoples, Maleficent turns Ingrith into a goat as retribution for her transgressions. Maleficent and the other Dark Fae return to the Moors after Aurora and Philip get married. She says she will be back for Aurora and Phillip’s future child’s christening.
Elle Fanning The Roads Not Taken
Leo is asleep and doesn’t hear the doorbell ding or the phone ring. Soon after, his daughter Molly shows up and questions him about why he didn’t answer the door or the phone. Leo murmurs to himself while Xenia, his caregiver, starts to vacuum. He finds it difficult to concentrate on getting ready for his doctor’s appointments because of his dementia. Eventually, Leo and Molly manage to get into a taxi and leave the apartment. He defies the dentist’s orders and urinates on himself before going to the dentist. When Molly gets her father into a different cab after he has changed clothing, Leo gets disoriented and falls out the passenger door, striking his head.
After Leo’s taxi driver calls for an ambulance, he is brought to the hospital. Rita, Molly’s mother, shows up and corrects her ex-husband for his actions. Leo becomes fixated on his deceased dog, Néstor, while Molly quarrels with Rita and Leo’s attending physician. After being let go, Molly takes Leo to Costco, where he vanishes as she answers a crucial call from her supervisor. Later on, she discovers a grieving Leo holding a puppy that he thinks is Néstor closely. Then, after accusing Leo of attempting to kidnap her dog, a woman phones security. She then calls him names and uses offensive language based on his race as security tackles him to the ground. After Molly explains Leo’s medical situation, the guards release him.
When Molly brings Leo to the optometrist, he disobeys directions once more. Molly’s supervisor calls her outside to let her know that someone else has been assigned to work on her project. She confides in her father that she can no longer maintain her pretense. Later that evening, Molly anxiously looks for Leo as he leaves his flat and wanders the streets on his bare feet. Eventually, two cab drivers come to his aid.
Elle Fanning The Great
Fanning portrays Catherine the Great of Russia in the historical and satirical comedy-drama television series, The Great. The film satirically depicts the historical ascent of Catherine the Great from outsider to the longest-reigning female queen in Russian history. The fictitious show follows Catherine from her early years and her marriage to Russian Emperor Peter III, with a particular emphasis on the scheme to assassinate her dangerous and corrupt husband.
Elle Fanning The Girl from Plainville
Fanning portrays Michelle Carter in the 2022 biographical crime drama television miniseries, The Girl from Plainville. The events leading up to Conrad Roy’s death and his lover Michelle Carter’s conviction for involuntary manslaughter are dramatized in the series.
Elle Fanning Movies and TV Shows
- I Am Sam
- Daddy Day Care
- The Door in the Floor
- Because of Winn-Dixie
- My Neighbor Totoro
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- All the Bright Places
- Taken
- Judging Amy
- CSI: Miami
- CSI: NY
- House
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Elle Fanning Social Media Platform
Fanning is very active on her Twitter and Instagram pages. She has 24.1k followers on Twitter and 6.4M followers on Instagram.