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Elle Fanning
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 fil…
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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).
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2027
The Nightingale
Movie Isabelle
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2026
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Movie Effie Trinket
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2026
Rosebush Pruning
Movie Martha
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2026
Margo's Got Money Troubles
TV show Margo
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2025
Predator: Badlands
Movie Thia / Tessa
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2025
Death in Apartment 603: What Happened to Ellen Greenberg?
TV show Executive Producer
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2025
Sentimental Value
Movie Rachel Kemp
- 2025
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2024
A Complete Unknown
Movie Sylvie Russo
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2024
Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer
TV show Executive Producer
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2022
The Girl from Plainville
TV show Michelle Carter
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2021
Paris in Love
TV show Self
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2020
Penn & Teller: Try This at Home
Movie Self
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2020
The Great
TV show Catherine II of Russia
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2020
The Disney Family Singalong
Movie Self
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2020
The Roads Not Taken
Movie Molly
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2020
All the Bright Places
Movie Violet
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2019
That Click
Movie Self
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2019
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Movie Princess Aurora
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self - Guest
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2019
A Rainy Day in New York
Movie Ashleigh Enright
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2019
Camp! The Movie
Movie Self
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2019
Teen Spirit
Movie Violet Valenski
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2018
Galveston
Movie Rocky
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2018
I Think We're Alone Now
Movie Grace
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2018
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
Movie Melody
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2017
No Activity
TV show Madison
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2017
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Movie Zan
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2017
Mary Shelley
Movie Mary Shelley
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2017
The Beguiled
Movie Alicia
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2017
Elle Fanning's Fan Fantasy
Movie Self
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2016
20th Century Women
Movie Julie
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2016
Live by Night
Movie Loretta Figgis
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2016
Ballerina
Movie Felicie (voice)
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2016
3 Generations
Movie Ray
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2016
The Neon Demon
Movie Jesse
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2015
Trumbo
Movie Niki Trumbo
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self
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2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV show Self
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2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV show Self
